The Parable of the Ping Pong Balls
Sep 24, 2025
Hi, I'm Julie Hawkes.
The answers are in the scriptures.
Let me show you how to find them.
Today's episode is called The Parable of the Ping Pong Balls and the Difference Grace Makes.
We're going to start with three progressive levels of obedience.
These have to do with our motivation and the reasons why we obey.
All obedience is good.
As we grow in our intentions and as we grow in our abilities, then obedience shifts from becoming transactional to becoming transformational.
We become rather than just do.
That's what we're going to talk about today.
I want to read a quote to you from Elder David A.
Bednar from a talk called Heartfelt and Willing Obedience from Education Week at BYU-Idaho in 2002 and he said, "Obedience is not simply a passive, steady state.
Rather, obedience must grow, develop, deepen, increase and expand.
Our experience with and understanding of the principle of obedience should change as we develop spiritua...
