Informal Covenants
Informal covenants include the covenant of tithing; the Word of Wisdom health code; the law of chastity; and keeping the Lord's Day holy.
All covenants, both informal and formal, are considered part of the overarching new and everlasting covenant of the gospel. Officially, partaking of the sacrament is considered by the LDS Church to be a renewal of the covenants made at baptism; however, many Latter-day Saints assume that doing so constitutes a renewal of all formal and informal covenants a person has made.
Read more about this topic: Covenant (Latter Day Saints)
Famous quotes containing the words informal and/or covenants:
“We are now a nation of people in daily contact with strangers. Thanks to mass transportation, school administrators and teachers often live many miles from the neighborhood schoolhouse. They are no longer in daily informal contact with parents, ministers, and other institution leaders . . . [and are] no longer a natural extension of parental authority.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)
“Love prays. It makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)