Seminary
Assess Your Learning 5

Assess Your Learning 5

Matthew 21–26; Mark 11–14; Luke 19–21; John 12–13

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Young woman sitting on a bed reading scriptures.

This lesson is intended to help you evaluate the goals you have set and the personal growth you have experienced during your study of the New Testament.

What have you learned?

Take a minute to reflect on what you have recently learned from your study of the New Testament. The following pictures may help you. It may also be useful to refer to your recent notes in your study journal. The following activity can help you assess your growth as a result of what you are learning.

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Jesus turning over a table of a money changer in the temple. Outtakes include images of Christ alone and with the crowd of merchants and buyers fleeing, people buying goods, and people looking.
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Jesus washing Peter’s feet. Outtakes show similar scenes.
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The resurrected Jesus Christ (wearing white robes with a magenta sash) standing above a large gathering of clouds. Christ has His arms partially extended. The wounds in the hands of Christ are visible. Numerous angels (each blowing a trumpet) are gathered on both sides of Christ. A desert landscape is visible below the clouds. The painting depicts the Second coming of Christ. (Acts 1:11)

1. Ponder and respond to the following questions in your study journal:

  • What have you recently learned about Jesus Christ that has been most meaningful to you? What scripture accounts helped you come to this understanding about Him?

  • What actions have you taken to become a more devoted disciple of Jesus Christ?

  • What next step(s) could you take to improve as a follower of the Savior?

Love God and love your neighbor

You recently studied Jesus’s teaching that the two greatest commandments are to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind and to love our neighbor as ourselves (see Matthew 22:36–39).

If you have the opportunity to talk with someone nearby, ask them to respond to the following question so you can gain additional insights. If you are by yourself, think about how you would answer the question.

  • Why do you think these are the two greatest commandments?

You also recently learned about Jesus washing His disciples’ feet and giving them a new commandment to love one another as He loved them (see John 13).

In both of these learning experiences, you may have been asked to make a plan to act on the Savior’s teachings and follow His example.

2. Answer at least two of the following questions in your study journal:

  • How was your experience acting on the Savior’s teachings?

  • What did you feel about Jesus Christ’s love for you and for others as you responded to the invitations given in class?

  • What would you like to do or continue doing as a result of the Savior’s teachings?

The Second Coming of Jesus Christ

A great way to simplify gospel teachings is to explain them at the level of a child. To help you explain important aspects of the Savior’s Second Coming in your own words, write a summary as though you were writing it for a child.

The purpose of your summary is to answer two questions:

  • What can we do to be prepared for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?

  • Why will the Savior’s Second Coming be glorious? (Recall that in a previous lesson, you may have read Elder Neil L. Andersen’s invitation to envision and rehearse the glorious events surrounding the Second Coming [see “Thy Kingdom Come,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2015, 122].)

The following resources may help you review what you have learned.

3. Record your summary in your study journal. Be sure that your summary answers the two questions listed at the beginning of this activity.