A great story about church correlation

http://bycommonconsent.com/2009/07/14/what-should-you-do-when-the-lesson-manual-is-wrong/

Having, some time back, served on the Gospel Doctrine writing committee of the Church for nearly ten years, I would never, ever, take a Gospel Doctrine manual to be an official and binding declaration of Church doctrine. We tried to get things right, we prayed about our work, and what we did was reviewed in Salt Lake before publication, but it scarcely constituted scripture.

 A story:

 Once, the scriptural selection about which I was
 assigned to write a
 lesson included, among other things, Acts 20:7-12,
 in which the
 apostle Paul drones on for so long in the course of
 a sermon that a
 young man (ironically named Eutychus or “Fortunate”)
 dozes off and
 falls from the rafters. Paul has to restore him to
 life. As a joke, I
 inserted a passage in my lesson manuscript that read
 somewhat along
 the following lines:

 “Have a class member read Acts 20:7-12. Have you
 ever killed anyone
 with a sacrament meeting speech? How did it make
 you feel? What
 steps can you take in the future to ensure that it
 does not happen again?”

 Members of the committee laughed, and the committee
 chairman sent my
 lesson on up, incorporating their suggested
 revisions but also still
 including my little joke, to Salt Lake City. Where
 it passed
 Correlation. (I can only assume that each member of
 the committee
 chuckled and then passed it on, expecting that
 somebody else would
 remove it.) When I received the galleys of the
 lesson back for final
 approval just before it went to press, the joke was
 still there. I
 faced one of the greatest moral crises of my life,
 but finally called
 Church headquarters and suggested that they probably
 didn’t really
 want the lesson to go out to Church members entirely
 as it stood. So
 the joke was removed.

 The point being that Gospel Doctrine manuals are not
 to be confused
 with authoritative divine revelations.