The message that will be delivered during this months end of month home teaching scramble is by Dieter and is entitled "Looking For The Good". His final paragraph says:

We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find. (Dieter F. UUchtdorf, "Looking for the Good", Liahona, March 2011, 4-6)

Does the Mormon Church follow Dieter's council?
Does Packer follow Dieter's council?

Hmmm...

This basically the apologetic ostrich defense.

"It's bad out there, so instead of focusing on bad things, lets instead focus on what good we can do and bla bla bla." This way its your fault for noticing that things are bad.

There is a grain of truth in this, but what is missed in the understanding that a church has to stand for something and its leaders must be held to higher standards of personal behavior, especially BECAUSE IT IS A CHURCH THAT HAS JESUS' NAME IN IT.

Once you have engaged ostrich mode, you bury your head in the sand and refuse to deal with inappropriate behavior that is out of touch with a Christlike love or anything to do with what one would expect of God's church. In other words, the ends justify the means. I'm sure, for example, that the money changers in the temple meant well and we know how THAT turned out.

This basically gives church leaders the excuse to do whatever they want and not be held accountable for their actions.

As others have posted, the church leaders want you to be accountable to them, but not to be accountable themselves to you.

Hypocracy at its best.

Hmmm Indeed.

...and not be held accountable for their actions."

Yes. Yet another compelling reason for us to be OUT of the cult.

Just call it reinforcing the MLM mindset.

Accept things at face value, trust what you are being told.

It, of course does not apply to dealing with filthy apostates

I hope my grown TBM kids all read this and do it for once. Doubt it.