Scripture-focused Non-LDS Movements & Sects as an Option

 In this blog series I am going to present the option many take when they choose not to "sustain the LDS Brethren," yet rather than be "Anti-Mormonism" and abandon their Mormon Heritage, some choose to be a Nondenominational LDS or Independent Mormon and focus on LDS Scripture only and not go to any church. Others choose to be part of a non-Brighamite Joseph-Smith-based Restoration Branch/Church (or what I call the "Restored Ecclesia"):

> Start here: Big Tent Mormonism: Beyond "Mormon Demoninationalism" Toward "Unified Mormonisms"

> The Case for "Scripture Focused Mormons" & What that Means?

> "Scripture Focused Mormon" Resources: Recommended Brighanite and Non-Brighamite Scriptures, Websites and other Restorationist Books, etc.

> How the "Standard Works" (Mormon Canon) itself Teaches The Authority of Scripture over Fallible Leaders

> Scripture as the Mode of Becoming "Vitally Alive" through the God-Breathed "Implanted Word" (Logos) to Salvation (Deliverance) and Empowerment (Exaltation)

> Should Prophets Be Ordained through a Succession of Offices held in Senority?

> Come in at the Gate of only Joseph Smith's Revelations (D&C 43: 2-7)

> The Restored Ecclesia & The Utah-based Church as a Corporation and Social Club

> The Authority of LDS Scripture (Standard Works) versus the Tradition of the Elders?

>  "Saving Knowledge" & Educative Ordinances As the Core of The Smith-Pratt Paradigm

> Mormon Scripture through the Smith-Pratt Lens

> The "Divine" as the Good Operating Dimension (G.O.D.) that Produces The Garden of the Good (Ecclesia)

> This is the Gospel!

> The "Church" as the Zion-minded True Vine: A Loving People United as One in Genuine Friendships

> Is Revelation obtained Only through Brighamite Church Presidents? Or is Revelation a Gift of the Spirit available to All Mormons?

> 3 Bullets Point Summary On Scripture-focused Mormonism That Is At Odds with Brethrenism

> Comparing Jesus' Words in Mathew 15 & 23 in The Remedy to Brethrenism

> Mathew 23: Those Who Sit in Moses' Seat in the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)

> The Smith–Rigdon Movement: The freed spirit of expression among the various Book of Mormon "sects and movements"

> The Same Pattern of an Inevitable Tension between Philosophical Mystics & Controlling Dogmatists, Repeats Itself in both the Bible and in Mormonism

> Jesus and the Samaritans & The Restoration Branches

> The Early Church & "Tithing"

> The Restored Ecclesia & Organic Church

> PureMormonism blog-site posts on Brethrenism

> Being an "Independent Mormon," "Non-Denominational Mormon" or "Free-range Mormon"?

> The Modern Nauvoo Mormon