Guide to the Scriptures: Church, Name of

GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Church, Name of See also Church of Jesus Christ; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The; Mormon(s)

In the Book of Mormon, when Jesus Christ visited the righteous Nephites shortly after his resurrection, he said that his church should bear his name (3 Ne. 27: 3-8). In modern times the Lord revealed the name of the Church to be "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (D&C 115: 4).