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Because I value myself as a child of God, I choose to be a person of virtue.

 

How To Be A Person of Virtue

Adaptability

God made great adjustments to adapt to sin in His universe by becoming a man and dying for us. God wants me to be happy in whatever situation I find myself. I should adapt if I am to bless and serve others.

 

I choose to be adaptable.

 

Definition

Adaptability related virtues: Accepts situation, creativity, flexibility, imaginative, resourceful.

Adaptability means: Modifying, changing, even making new things and trying new ways in order to accomodate or to proceed, reconcile to correspond, adapt to fit.
Artwork Music

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A Heart Like Thine, AYS, 1
Every Day with Jesus, AYS, 30
Father, Lead Me, AYS, 31
Happiness is the Lord, AYS, 49
Have Thine Own Way, Lod, AYS, 54

Student Life Applications

Because God has made each person different, and because we don't live in a perfect world where everything is the way we wish it to be, I will:
Be willing to change my plans and the way I do things in order to accomplish a good work as long as it doesn't mean I will do something wrong.
Study in a different room if someone wants to talk with a friend.
Wear different clothes if the others didn't get washed.
Try new foods. Go new places. Do things differently.
Adjust to new friends, teachers, weather, when I have to move to a new location.
Put on a coat when someone likes it cooler in the room than I do.
Change my plans when the rest want to go somewhere different.
 

Bible, E.G. White


II Chronicles 26:15 and he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men
Proverbs 8:12 and find out knowledge of witty inventions
Amos 6:5 and invent to themselves instruments of music
Hebrews 1:11 Then shall his mind change
Hebrews 10:20 by a new and living way


Reinforcing Stories

"Anthony Alexander Anderson", Book One, Great Stories for Kids by Jerry Thomas, pp. 15, 70
Book Two, page 107, Great Stories for Kids.
"Joan's reward", "The Most Wonderful Machine in the World", Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School.

Student Activities

1. Play Simon Says. . .
2. Change the schedule every day for one week.
3. Play any partner game, then change partners several times.

4. Do 2 or 3 flexibility exercises (may use help of PE teacher).
5. Plan an alternate route to your home and school.
6. Build three bridges (e.g. toothpicks, paper, clay) and test their strength
7. Give students flexible straws and ask them to make a symbol of a gospel truth.
8. Choose a Bible story and adapt it to 2002.
 

Links to the Curriculum
Biology: Animals can adapt to their environment. Christians should adapt when the situation requires it.
Health: Cartilage is flexible tissue for strength, we should be flexible with each other for the strength of the church.
Music: Transporting means changing the key for the convenience of the musician even so Jesus is the new key that makes life easier to live.
Physics: Wave is a disturbance traveling through space and medium. Adaptability lets us use the wave to advantage for the gospel.
 

Resources


Great Stories for Kids. by Jerry D. Thomas, Pacific Press Publishing Association, © 1999
Treasury of Devotional Aids by Department of Education of General Conference of SDA. 1951

Evaluation

Primary:
Tell or write two ways that show that God is adaptable.
Tell or write about a time when you saw someone show adaptability.
Tell or write about when you showed adaptability like God would do.
Tell or write about when you saw the hurt and unhappiness when someone was not adaptable.
How do you think God feels when He sees people who are adaptable?
How do you feel when you are adaptable?
Tell two ways that you can show adaptability.
What makes you want to be adaptable?
What is the opposite of adaptability? Who makes us act that way?
Finish the sentence: We can be adaptable when we..........

Middle:
Why does God care if I am adaptable?
What difference does it make whether I am adaptable or not?
What effect would it have on my future if I did not choose to be adaptable?
How would people treat me differently if I did or didn’t choose to be adaptable?
How would I feel about myself if I did or did not choose to be adaptable?
Give some reasons why you think it is best to be adaptable. Why would someone do differently?
What makes choosing to be adaptable better than the opposite?
List some ways that a person might be adaptable without anyone noticing?
List 3 situations where a person could be adaptable in his work, home, or at the shopping mall.
Is it possible for a person to get better at being adaptable? Explain.
Can you think of someone who seems good at being adaptable? What makes them better at it?
How could you learn to be better at adaptability?
How often do you show adaptability? Think of the last three times and tell me.
Do you like to join in when people are being adaptable? How have you joined in?

High school:
Would you practice adaptability if no one was checking on you? Your parents, school, or the law?
What is the alternative to adaptability and what do you see as the results of that choice?
Would you recognize it if someone was not fully adaptable? How?
Would you keep quiet if someone paid you a lot of money not to be adaptable?
Are you proud to be adaptable and willing to tell others how you feel?
If someone in a group spoke out against adaptability would you speak up to give the other side?
Are you willing to put some of your money toward supporting adaptability in your city, class, work?
Can you say that being adaptable has become a habit? How often are you that way?
What effect do you think adaptability will have on your future life?
Do you see your family practicing adaptability? How about your church, city, or nation?
What do you think should be done to promote adaptability in your family, friends, church, city, nation?
Does it make much difference if they are adaptable or not?