CES Employees required to be Temple Worthy


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https://www.ldsdaily.com/world/all-ces-employees-must-now-hold-current-temple-recommend/?fbclid=IwAR0aj5MfKhysO14In-Dn0Ak4KQty3-IJ3LVdl5pbkZH5fq4s2Lncnrmhe1Q

 

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The Church Educational System (CES) announces that all new employees who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be required to hold and be worthy to hold a current temple recommend. Church members already working at CES institutions will be invited to adopt this standard voluntarily. 

 

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Sounds like some boundary maintenance is happening.  I think that's a good thing.  

The New Testament is a handful of books about what actually happened, and the rest is all letters from apostles to people who were starting to teach and believe bullcrap and nonsense about it.  Since history repeats itself, and our claim is that apostles walk the earth again, it's not surprising that the church would bump up it's efforts to maintain control over it's own doctrine in times of such rapid and powerful cultural change.

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I thought they already did that, frankly.  One of the reasons I didn’t pursue academia was that I only would have wanted to work at BYU; and given my own struggles with porn, I didn’t want my secular livelihood to depend on my current worthiness to hold a temple recommend.

(Although, if it has hitherto been possible to be an LDS BYU professor without holding a current temple recommend, then that would explain a lot.  A whole lot.)

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The article states:

"Any continuing employees who choose not to opt in to the standard, as well as employees who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ, must continue to meet existing employment and ecclesiastical standards."

Which directly contradicts the claim that "all" CES employees "must" have a temple recommend.

All of them have to...except the ones that don't.

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My opinion concerning this matter.  I believe that the article and intentions of the CES are obvious - what the intent is should not be a surprise to anyone.  But let us take this a step farther.  I believe that the purpose of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to prepare a "Zion" people of the second advent of Christ and all that such entails.  Every person that is baptized should work towards preparing themselves for temple covenants.  All ministering, organizations, fellowship and influences that the Church has and employs as directed by the spirit ought to focus on bringing soles unto Christ. 

I was taught as a missionary that I was sent out into the "world" to call the righteous to repentance.  I have learned since what righteous means.  It means those that are willing to covenant with G-d.  The first step or act of covenant (righteousness) is baptism and the preparation for baptism.  The first principle of righteousness is "Faith in the L-rd Jesus Christ" and the second is "Repentance".   I would suggest that all those that post on this forum ought to be willing to exercise faith in Christ and have an attitude of repentance.  For anyone that has questions in this matter - I would exhort you to contact the young men and women that have dedicated their time as full time missionaries to teach these things by the spirit.

As far as the particular article for the OP.  I think that because BYU is in the process of joining the Big 12 sports conference that it is wisdom (revelation) that the purpose of our religious institutions and in particular Brigham Young University is not limited to excellences in sports but that the first purpose is to be examples before the world in the principles of faith in Jesus Christ and repentance.  That this first purpose is best achieved by focusing on (employing) those willing to covenant with Christ (in other words the righteous).

With all this in mind - I invite that all reading this post join with me in the attitude of faith in Christ unto repentance and prepare to extend (expand) your covenant with Jesus Christ to become a Saint of G-d in these Last-days.

 

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The one thing this policy potentially does, is outsource eligibility for “worthiness” determinations away from BYU HR and/or department heads (who might otherwise apply their own judgment of an employee’s “temple worthiness”) and places the issue squarely and unappealable in the hands of bishops and stake presidents who are neither functionaries of, nor beholden to, BYU. One wonders if this is related to the current Title IX investigation BYU is undergoing.  

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7 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:

The one thing this policy potentially does, is outsource eligibility for “worthiness” determinations away from BYU HR and/or department heads (who might otherwise apply their own judgment of an employee’s “temple worthiness”) and places the issue squarely and unappealable in the hands of bishops and stake presidents who are neither functionaries of, nor beholden to, BYU. One wonders if this is related to the current Title IX investigation BYU is undergoing.  

I was under the impression it was always in the hands of their Bishops.  They may not have had to have a Temple Recommend, but I believe that they needed to have ecclesiastical endorsements (including for CES employees, at least in certain positions).

The bigger question is how this applies to Seminary teachers.  In theory, early morning seminary teachers are also CES employees if they are getting paid (many of them are in Stakes throughout the Church).

This may or may not have a huge impact on that calling/job.  I would HOPE it doesn't (that most of those teaching early morning Seminary were selected because of testimony and worthiness, which would include temple recommends, as well as perhaps having an interest in the students...aka...some of their children being Seminary age), but it could be that this change is actually more directed towards this position.

If this applies to Early Morning Seminary teachers this is a good way to ensure that there is at least a modicum of minimum standards required in regards to righteousness.  I would imagine this would impact this calling/job on a far larger scale than Seminary teachers in the Arizona/Utah/Idaho Corridor or BYU Professors.  The calling also changes out a lot more often than those at BYU or teachers in Arizona/Utah/Idaho and Institute Professors.  For some areas (especially branches, where this may actually be far more focused because the amount of people to choose from is so much smaller) this actually may have a massive impact on how they can choose or call someone to teach seminary.

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10 hours ago, The Folk Prophet said:

"Any continuing employees who choose not to opt in to the standard, as well as employees who are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ, must continue to meet existing employment and ecclesiastical standards."

Which directly contradicts the claim that "all" CES employees "must" have a temple recommend.

All of them have to...except the ones that don't.

That just means they're not going to fire anyone for not having a TR.  Any new employee must have one.   It's the sort of policy change a good moral friendly employer makes when they don't want to overly burden employees with a not small policy change that would otherwise impact folks' paychecks.

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On 1/28/2022 at 8:23 PM, NeuroTypical said:

That just means they're not going to fire anyone for not having a TR.  Any new employee must have one.   It's the sort of policy change a good moral friendly employer makes when they don't want to overly burden employees with a not small policy change that would otherwise impact folks' paychecks.

I agree that it’s the right thing to do, the church doesn’t want anyone to lose the ability to feed their family. It shows that the church cares about everyone. I remember reading about Joesph F Smith not wanting to file a lawsuit where a milkman or something hit a church owned property because he was, correctly, afraid the man might lose his job over this. So this happens more than we know about. 
 

Are there a lot of people who work in the CES division that are not members?

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