RELIGIOUS VIRTUE GROUP Because I value my relationship with God, I choose to know His character and respond to Him in my worship and life. |
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How To Be Like Jesus Love God's nature is love and He expresses His love to me in every way. |
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I choose
to be loving in everything I do. |
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. |
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 |
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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 |
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Cry of the boy who offered to be a kidney donor for his sister, thinking
he would die. |
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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 . |
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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. |
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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: High school: |