1st Quarter 2016 Lesson 5 Teachers Edition Collegiate Quarterly (Ages 18-35)
1st Quarter 2016 Lesson 5 Teachers Edition Collegiate Quarterly (Ages 18-35)
1st Quarter 2016 Lesson 5 Teachers Edition Collegiate Quarterly (Ages 18-35)
Teachers
Guide
Understand that the controversy between God and Satan plays out in their
lives every day.
Learn strategies that will help them
Preparing to Lead
There is an old story about a king who
played a melody and then offered a prize
to anyone who could travel through the
forest and arrive on the other side still
remembering the melody.
The story recounts the adventures of
people who battled all types of deceptions in order to retain the melody in their
mind. In the end, the one who did remember the melody and receive the prize
Materials
Getting Started
A. Have a musician in your gr oup
play on the piano or on another instrument a few bars of an unfamiliar melody.
Ask for volunteers to try to repeat the
melody accurately. After trying this a few
times, explain how we need to be in constant contact with God through His Spirit
in order to resist the deceptions of this
world and to keep Gods Word in our
hearts.
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song.
If you chose B in Getting Started,
have the class take the joy quotient scale
again. Recalculate the class average. Has
the average number gone up? Is there a
difference in attitudes after spending time
being thankful and reading Gods Word?
Ask: How does this concept help win
battles in the great controversy?
Kris
Coffin Stevenson, North Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
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* Steven Furtick, Crash the Chatterbox (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Multnomah Books, 2015).
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General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
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1. You are going into Walmart when you see a woman coming out pushing a cart
full of plastic shelving. She is trying to carry one in her hand and push the cart
with the other hand while looking over the top of the pile in her cart. Youre
meeting a friend and are running late.
2. You are at a church retreat and are excited because some friends you rarely see
are there. You have all arranged to sit together for lunch. You go early to save
seats for everyone at a table in the crowded dining area. While your friends are
still in the serving line, you see a person all by themself looking for an open
place to sit and eat. There are no extra seats at your table.
3. You come home from a long trip, tired, hot, hungry, and thirsty. You just want
to take a shower and crash. Your landlords are outside repainting the trim on the
house.
4. You come home to find your mom has made your favorite pizza as a special treat
for you. You gobble down several pieces. Still hungry, you reach for the last
piece and see your little sister look longingly at it.
5. You hurry into the restroom during a quick break at school. You discover that
someone has left a big mess behind.
6.
Theres a bully in your neighborhood who likes to rough up younger kids to get
money from them. Youve managed to avoid him so far. You hear that he has
been harassing some friends of yours. But when you try to investigate, youre
clearly told to stay out of it, or else. . .
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