Home: The Heart of Learning

When learning at church supports 
learning at home, you build a strong 
foundation of gospel living.

When we consider the time we spend at home verses the time we spend at church it would make sense that the majority of our learning should happen in the home. We need to be learning and practicing gospel teachings at home daily. Also, remembering to attend all of our Sunday meetings, knowing they are to supplement our home learning and strengthen us. 

Church meetings are really meant to support individual and family learning. As Presiding Bishop Gary E. Stevenson taught, “The primary place of teaching and learning is the home.” When learning and teaching are centered in the home, they carry power that can lead to conversion.

“None of us are minimizing the in-chapel, in-meetinghouse teaching,” says Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “We’ve all done that all of our lives, but we’d like it to be 24/7 out in the lives that we’re living.” As you incorporate that 24/7 learning into everyday moments in your family’s life, you can establish a strong foundation for a “house of learning” (D&C 88:119) that will provide you and your family with spiritual shelter and protection.

D&C 88:119 - Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God.

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