Names of Christ

 

That They Might Know Thee

(John 17:3)

By Elder Jonathan S. Schmitt

Of the Seventy

A few years ago, President Russell M. Nelson studied all the scriptures concerning Jesus Christ in the Topical Guide.¹⁰ He then invited young adults to study these same scriptures. Concerning Jesus’s many names, President Nelson said, “Study everything Jesus Christ is by prayerfully and vigorously seeking to understand what each of His various titles and names means personally for you.”¹¹

Following President Nelson’s invitation, I began developing my own list of Jesus’s many names. My personal list now has over 300 names, and I’m sure there are many more that I haven’t discovered yet....

I invite you to develop your own list as you come to know Jesus by His many names. In doing so, you will find that there are other names—along with their corresponding Christlike attributes—that you will want to take upon yourself as Jesus’s covenant disciple....

Jesus’s life was a pattern of holiness. As we follow Jesus, we can become a holy one in Israel.³⁵ We increase in holiness as we regularly visit the temple, where “Holiness to the Lord” is etched above every entrance. Every time we worship in the temple, we leave endowed with greater power to make our homes places of holiness...

Time in the temple will increase holiness in our lives.