PROVO, Utah — In a revelation given to the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1831, the Lord referred to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth,” said President Dallin H. Oaks, quoting Doctrine and Covenants 1:30.
“The fashionable opinion of this age is that all churches are true. If that is so, then all religious messages that identify differences in religious doctrines like ours are unimportant,” President Oaks told new mission leaders Saturday, June 20. “That conclusion can cause us — and others — a serious loss of religious freedom.”
In his message at the2026 Seminar for New Mission Leadersat the Provo Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, President Oaks explored the question, “What does it mean that the restored Church of Jesus Christ is the only true church?”
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