Families Can Be Together Forever

The family bonds you form in this life can last beyond death. Strengthening your relationship with God can lead to stronger relationships with your family.

Family Life

Families Are Central to God’s Plan

As your loving Father in Heaven, God wants you to learn and grow in life. Families play a crucial role in that growth. We believe:

  • Families are a central building block of a strong society.
  • Home can be a place where we feel support, safety, and love.
  • Connecting with God helps create strong families where spiritual, emotional, and physical needs are met.
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You Can Be with Your Family Forever

If your family is a great source of love and joy in your life, it might be hard to imagine heaven without relationships with those people. Part of the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that families can be together forever.

In the Bible, Jesus gave the Twelve Apostles priesthood authority, promising that “whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven” (Matthew 18:18). That same authority from God unites—or seals—husbands and wives and parents and children together for eternity.

Family life

Marriage ceremonies are performed in temples by this same authority with the promise that the marriages of those who are faithful to God and each other can last for eternity instead of ending at death.

We perform these same sealing ceremonies on behalf of our ancestors, who we believe can choose to accept or reject the sealings.

Family relationships and circumstances can be complicated, and we don’t know exactly how everything will work out in the next life. But we have faith in God’s perfect wisdom and love, and we believe that heaven will be a place of unimaginable joy.

You Can Find Help to Strengthen Your Family

Julie Hillyard on family relationships

Finding Joy in a Family That Looks Different

Loving family relationships are most likely to be achieved when founded on the principles Jesus Christ taught, such as:

  • Charity
  • Forgiveness
  • Honesty
  • Gratitude
  • Prayer
  • Worshipping together

As your family draws closer to God through these habits, you will draw closer to each other.

Because we believe families are so important in this life and the next, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints works hard to support healthy family relationships. Here are a few ways you can find support for your family.

Church Resources for Families

Home-centered study programs
Youth Programs
Home Evening
Ministering
Self-Reliance
Building Community for Single Adults

Let’s Talk about Family

Church can help you strengthen your family and preserve precious relationships for eternity. You can learn more by talking with missionaries online or in person.

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