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Because I value my relationship with God, I choose to know His character and respond to Him in my worship and life.

 

How To Be Like Jesus

Love

God's nature is love and He expresses His love to me in every way.

I choose to be loving in everything I do.

Definition

Love means: To practice treating others lovingly, with willingness and ability to undergo sacrificial difficulties for the sake of the welfare and happiness of others. To show care and kindness for someone.

Artwork Music

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The Love of God is Greater Far
I love Thee, I love Thee, I love Thee, my God - SDAH 236
‘Tis Love That Makes Us Happy - SDAH 579
More Love to Thee - SDAH 458
The King of Love My Shepherd Is - SDAH 197
O Perfect Love - SDAH 656
Love at Home - SDAH 652
Love was When
Deep, Deep, Deep as the Sea

In Moments Like These
His Banner Over Me Is Love
Behold What Manner of Love
For God so Loved the World
Calvary’s Love
Jesus Loves Me
Over the Sea

Student Life Applications

1. Sharing your lunch with a hungry classmate
2. Changing the subject when someone starts to gossip
3. Helping a slow learner prepare for his test
4. Cleaning up someone else’s mess
5. Cheering for the losing side (or person) in sports
6. Comforting a classmate when his loved one has died
7. Bringing flowers to your teacher
8. Using your savings for a gift instead of spending it for yourself (clothes for brother or sister)
9. Working after school so little brother or sister can go to school
10. Helping an elderly person find the right bus
11. Including younger children (less skilled) play in your game (soccer, badminton, volleyball)
12. Sharing a pencil or paper with a classmate
13. Making the shy person feel welcome and part of the group
14. Helping the new student make friends and feel at home
15. Showing a visitor which way to go
16. Seeing the needs of a classmate and helping without being asked to do it
17. Doing good things without people knowing who did them
18. Encouraging a classmate who is having a hard time in sports
19. Taking a treat to an old person or poor people near by
20. Singing for the sick classmate or local hospital
21. Being nice when others are unkind to you (heaping “coals of fire” on their heads)
22. Forgiving someone who hurt you even when they don’t ask you to
23. Not making fun of or laughing at someone when he makes a mistake
24. Not making fun of peoples’ bodies that are different than yours (fat, skinny, hair, nose)
25. Sharing with the poor your good things not just the things you don’t want
26. Student hugging another to console him because he has a broken tennis racket
27. Student hugging another to console him because he has a broken toy
28. Student hugging another to console him because he has a broken bicycle
29. Two students walking with arms around each other’s shoulders when one is handicapped
30. Two students walking with arms around each other’s shoulders when one is much younger
31. Two students walking with arms around each other’s shoulders when one is fair skinned
and the other is dark skinned
32. Student walking an elderly person down the steps

 

Bible, E.G. White

Romans 8:38, 39 I am persuaded that neither. . . nor. . . can separate us from the love of God.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,.
Ephesians 3:17-19 That Christ may dwell in your hearts, . . . to know the love of Christ.
Isaiah 63:7-9 I will tell of the Lord’s unfailing love. . .

“More love in your labors, and more kindly sympathy, would give you access to hearts and would win souls to Christ and the truth.” 3T 417
“We should be self-forgetful, ever looking out for opportunities, even in little things, to show gratitude for the favors we have received of others, and watching for opportunities to cheer others and lighten and relieve their sorrows and burdens by acts of tender kindness and little deeds of love.” 3T 540

 

Reinforcing Stories

Cry of the boy who offered to be a kidney donor for his sister, thinking he would die.
Captain’s son on a sinking ship who volunteers to go down and put his arm in the hole to stop the water
Four Chaplains who gave their life vests to others on sinking ship Living Illustrations by J. B. Fowler, Jr. P. 88.
Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories, Vol. IV, pg. 118, Vol. III, pgs. 165, 125, 163, 191.
Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories, Vol. I, pgs. 161, 167, 171.
The Children’s Hour, Vol. I, pg. 138.
“The Miracle of Bethlehem”, “Stories Jesus told”, Volume 4, The Children’s Hour
“The Body a Manufacturing Plant”, “God no respector of persons”, “God’s Protecting Care”, “An interesting air conditioner”, “Greater Love”, “A stubborn will”, Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School
April 15, Sure as the Dawn by Mansell and Mansell.

 

Student Activities

Talk about the different kinds of love.. Lovers, God’s love, Good friends, family
List what you think of when someone speaks about God’s love
List the ways we can love like God loves.
Make a poster of how we can love like God .

 

Links to the Curriculum

Biology: Photosynthesis is life from sun, so our spirit lives by love from Son.
Health: Ligaments are strong cords connecting our bones, God’s love is a strong cord connecting our membership.
Math: Infinitive is an unknown quantity. God’s love is also an unknown quantity.
Science: Example in nature of God’s love though marred by sin. Animals care for young.
Physics: Sound waves travel more rapidly in warm air than in cool air, so spiritual messages travel quicker in love than without love.
Physical Education: What sport has a score of “Love” Tennis it stands, for “0" . You need love and maybe mercy when you don’t have a thing.

 

Resources

Prince Siddhartha by Jonathan Landaw & Janet Brooke (5-8)
Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams (3-5)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (5-8)
Crooked Colt by C. W. Anderson (3-6)
The Children’s Hour, by Arthur S. Maxwell. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1945
Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories, by Arthur S. Maxwell. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1964.

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

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

High school:
Would you practice love if no one was checking on you? Your parents, school, or the law?
What is the alternative to love and what do you see as the results of that choice?
Would you recognize it if someone was not fully loving? How?
Are you proud to be loving and willing to tell others how you feel?
If someone in a group spoke out against loving would you speak up to give the other side?
Can you say that being loving has become a habit? How often are you that way?
Do you see your family practicing loving others? How about your church, city, or nation?
Does it make much difference if they are loving or not?