What Was Gentle In the Lowlands of Initial Loyalty Becomes Deeply Strenuous and Very Demanding at the Summit of True Discipleship

Obviously as the path of discipleship ascends, that trail gets ever more narrow until we come to that knee-buckling pinnacle... “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”¹³ What was gentle in the lowlands of initial loyalty becomes deeply strenuous and very demanding at the summit of true discipleship. Clearly anyone who thinks Jesus taught no-fault theology did not read the fine print in the contract! No, in matters of discipleship the Church is not a fast-food outlet; we can’t always have it “our way.” Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ and that salvation can only come His way. ¹⁴

Jeffrey R. Holland, "An Ensign To The Nations",General Conference  April 2011