Without Alma, I wonder if we would have any record of what Abinadi said in the court of king Noah. I have no doubt that the court record, if one was even kept, would be far from accurate.
Hearing Abinadi and writing his words was the beginning of Alma’s journey of repentance and righteousness. That journey led him to establish a people who looked to Christ for redemption. It led him to become functionally the elder of a city, and later to become the spiritual leader of the people in an integrated kingdom where the secular authority was a righteous king.
Along the way Alma had to learn new skills and address uncomfortable issues such as how to deal with wickedness in the church independent of the civil authority.
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