“Are there no standards for youth in the Church now?”
This is a question I have heard multiple times since “For the Strength of Youth: A Guide for Making Choices” was revised and released in October 2022.
For those who (like me) grew up with more prescriptive lists of do’s and don’ts, it might feel like the new guide doesn’t provide specific standards. But we live in a time like King Benjamin described. He said, “I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I cannot number them” (Mosiah 4:29). What we need today are principle-based standards that can be applied across the varied circumstances of our lives.
When the revised version of the ‘For the Strength of Youth’ guide was first introduced, Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke about the changes. He told us what the guide does—teach “values, principles and doctrine instead of every specific behavior”—and what it does not do—“give you a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ about every choice you might ever face.”
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