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Alma 5-7: Mighty Change of Heart

Come Follow Me · Week 8 · February 17–February 23, 2025 · Alma 5:14, 5:26, 7:11-12

Learn about spiritual rebirth and the Atonement of Jesus Christ

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Family discussion questions

Use these around the dinner table, in Sunday School, or for companionship study — each comes from this week's chapters.

  1. Think about a time when someone asked you a question that made you really think about your life. What was it about that question that stuck with you, and how did it help you grow?
  2. Why do you think it is so much easier to notice what other people need to change than to look honestly at ourselves?
  3. Alma's change was sudden and dramatic, but most people change little by little. What is a gradual change you have seen in yourself or someone in your family that shows the gospel is working in their heart?
  4. Why do you think Alma spent the rest of his life asking others if they had experienced the same change he went through? What does that teach us about sharing what we have learned?
  5. What do you think it looks like in everyday life when someone has 'received His image in their countenance'? Have you ever seen that kind of change in someone you know?
  6. If you were to honestly ask yourself Alma's question right now -- 'Have I experienced a mighty change in my heart?' -- what would you say, and what is one thing you could do to keep that change growing?
  7. Alma went from fighting against God to dedicating his entire life to serving Him. Have you ever had a moment where your feelings about the gospel completely shifted? What caused that change?
  8. Not everyone gets visited by an angel like Alma did. What are some quieter ways God has called YOU to change or to come closer to Him?

Sample questions from this week's game

You're sitting in the crowd in Zarahemla. Alma has just asked everyone: 'Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?' Some people look uncomfortable. What would you do?

Alma 5:14-15

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Honestly reflect on your life and humbly seek to change — Alma's powerful questions were meant to help each person look inward -- not to judge others, but to honestly check if they were living the gospel and feeling the Spirit in their own life.

A man stood before a great crowd. He had once been powerful and led many astray, but a heavenly messenger struck him down and he could not move or speak for days. When he awoke, he was a completely different person — transformed from the inside out. Now he stood before these people, asking them one piercing question: had THEY experienced the same kind of change?

Alma 5:11-14

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Alma preaching to the people of Zarahemla — Alma the Younger was converted dramatically after being struck down by an angel. In Alma 5, he draws on his own experience of mighty change to challenge the people of Zarahemla to examine their own hearts.

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This week covers Alma 5:14, 5:26, 7:11-12. Read the chapters at churchofjesuschrist.org.