Therefore what?

Elder Marion G Romney recounts the “Fable of the Gullible Gull,” Reader’s Digest, Oct. 1950, p. 32.

Seagulls are starving to death in an area where fishing is abundant. They aren’t starving from a lack of food but the lack of knowing how to fish for themselves. Generations of gulls depended of the shrimp boats to toss them scraps. Parents brought their young to the shrimp boats instead of teaching them to fish. The basic knowledge of fishing is lost to this grpup of birds. - The Celestial Nature of Self-reliance By President Marion G. Romney October 1982

Self reliance is both spiritual and temporal. Doctrine & Covenants 29:34-35. 

The purpose of both temporal and spiritual self-reliance is to get ourselves on higher ground so that we can lift others in need. - Coming to Ourselves: The Sacrament, the Temple, and Sacrifice in Service By Elder Robert D. Hales, April 2012

Alma 32:27

As we strive to understand, internalize, and live correct gospel principles, we will become more spiritually self-reliant. The principle of spiritual self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church that God has granted us—agency.

- Christlike Attributes—the Wind beneath Our Wings By Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, October 2005

Mosiah 5:2

Alma 5:13-14 

It's not enough to know the Word.

It's not enough to teach the Word. 

Ephesians 4:13

How does this apply to me? How does this teaching change your life?  

In simpler terms "Therefore, What?" Elder Jeffrey R. Holland tells of elder Packer often asking this question in the meetings of the 12. - Teaching Seminary Preservice Readings

I love the sass but I love the meaning even more. It doesn’t matter how beautiful the wording is or how much you can quote if it isn't functional. These two words have changed the way I teach and study. "Therefore what?"