Overview
- Delivering his first major address since joining the First Presidency, President D. Todd Christofferson spoke at a BYU devotional in Provo on Dec. 2.
- He defined “condescension” as Christ’s voluntary descent from divine glory to mortal life to rescue humankind, calling that mission the source of purpose and hope.
- He taught that individuals also undergo a personal condescension from a premortal state to mortal life and invited students to reflect on that purpose.
- He said salvation requires entering the covenant path and repenting rather than achieving flawless perfection, quoting Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf on Christ making disciples celestial.
- He urged endurance to the end and said there is “no quota” on sincere repentance, echoing President Dallin H. Oaks’s emphasis on becoming Christlike; 11,189 attended and his grandson offered the opening prayer.