<code> Cures ambivalence</code>
<code> - Deepens discipleship</code>
<code> - Brings safety, felicity</code>
<code> Each member of the Church is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus, said Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Council of the Twelve.</code>
<code> In his Sunday morning address, he made a plea to members "whose discipleship is casual" to accept the call of greater consecration.</code>
<code> "Consecration is the only surrender which is also a victory. It brings release from the raucous, over-populated cell block of selfishness and emancipation from the dark prison of pride," he said.</code>
<code> "These remarks are not primarily for those who are steadily striving, who genuinely seek to keep God's commandments and yet sometimes fall short. Nor is this primarily for those few in deliberate non-compliance, including some who cast off on intellectual and behavioral bungee cords in search of new sensations only to be jerked about by old heresies and sins.</code>
<code> "Instead," Elder Maxwell continued, "these comments are for the essentially `honorable' members who are skimming over the surface instead of deepening their discipleship and who are casually engaged rather than `anxiously engaged.'</code>
<code> "Though nominal in participation, their reservations and hesitations inevitably show through. They may even pass through our holy temples but, alas, they do not let the holy temples pass through them."</code>
<code> Elder Maxwell said that all are free to choose, but when some choose slackness, they are not only choosing for themselves, but for the next generation and the next. "Small equivocations in parents can produce large deviations in their children!</code>
<code> "One common characteristic of the honorable but slack is their disdain for the seemingly unexciting duties of discipleship, such as daily prayer, regular reading of the scriptures, attendance at sacrament meeting, paying a full tithe, and participating in the holy temples.</code>
<code> "Only greater consecration will cure ambivalence and casualness in any of us!" he continued.</code>
<code> "Increased consecration is not so much a demand for more hours of Church work as it is for more awareness of Whose work this really is! For now, consecration may not require giving up worldly possessions so much as being less possessed by them."</code>
<code> He said that true orthodoxy brings safety and felicity. "It is not only correctness but happiness.</code>
<code> "Instead of striving for greater consecration, it is so easy to go on performing casually in half-hearted compliance as if hoping to `ride to paradise on a golf cart.' "</code>
<code> Elder Maxwell continued: "The uncertainties, upheavals, and topsy-turveyness of today's world will be such that those who vacillate and equivocate will be tossed about by severe turbulence.</code>
<code> "Brothers and sisters, whatever we embrace instead of Jesus and His work will keep us from being embraced by Him upon entering His kingdom. May we get settled and pray for that marvelous moment. . . ."</code>
