Scouting Values In the Scriptures – Captain Moroni

This is the 2nd installment of the “Scouting Values in Scriptures” weekly series. We began with the Book of Mormon and will continue with other scriptures of the Standard Works.

The Book of Mormon is full of people living the standards of the Scout Law. The people in the Book of Mormon weren’t Scouts. But they were building the same things Scouting builds. The same values. Scouting didn’t invent these values. They’re eternal. But they build the same character. The same kind of discipleship.

A Scout Is Brave: Captain Moroni

Alma 48:17 contains one of the most remarkable character assessments in all of scripture: “If all men had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever; yea, the devil would never have power over the hearts of the children of men.”

Captain Moroni was brave. But notice what Mormon is careful to tell us about what his bravery was actually for. He didn’t delight in bloodshed. He didn’t fight for conquest. He raised the Title of Liberty – a cloth banner with a personal covenant written on it – because he was DEFENDING his people’s families, faith, and freedom.

It’s moral courage. Not just physical. The courage to take a stand for what’s right when it’s unpopular. To stand when others sit. To defend something worth defending, even at personal cost.

Every Scout who stands up for a friend being mocked, who refuses to go along with something wrong because everyone else is doing it, who keeps their covenants when nobody’s watching – that Scout is living Captain Moroni’s principle. Character doesn’t wait for a battlefield. It shows up in ordinary moments first.

Join us here next week for the next installment of “Scouting Values in the Scriptures”