HEALTH VIRTUE GROUP
Because I value my body as Christ's temple, I choose to achieve and maintain optimum physical, mental, and spiritual health.
HEALTH VIRTUE GROUP Because I value my body as Christ's temple, I choose to achieve and maintain optimum physical, mental, and spiritual health. |
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How To Be Healthy No Vices
God's ideal is for me to be free of anything that would harm my body or mind such as drugs, alcohol, tobacco, or gambling.
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I choose to be free from all vices.
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No vices related virtues: No alcoholic beverage, no drugs, no over indulgence, no tobacco. No vices means: Abstinence from all things harmful and moderation in all things helpful.
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Hark, ‘Tis the Shepherd Voice I Hear, SDAH 361
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Because my body is God’s temple and I want to serve Him, I therefore will: Avoid smoking, drinking, unnecessary medicines or drugs
that will harm my body; |
Proverbs 20:1 (Wine bites like a serpent
and stings like a viper) “Every day men in positions of trust have ......to
think rapidly, and this can be done successfully by those only who practice
strict temperance.” MH 310
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“Mrs. McCusky’s Cat”,
“Say ‘No!’”, “Help in a Fur Coat”,
Book Two, Great Stories for Kids, pp. 470
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1. Have children make a temple out of
craft sticks and glue. Then ask how they would feel if someone smashed
it or ruined it. Do it to a sample that you have and let them feel the
emotion of sorrow. How does God feel when we ruin His temple? |
| Biology: Smoking kills plants and animals and shows us the harm to any living organism. |
Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School by Department of Education
of General Conference of SDA. 1951
Sawatsky, Dawna, Handy Guide for Teaching Kids About Health, Life Education,
3500 Treetop Lane, Willits CA 95490. 1998.
Stober, Iris Hayden and Barry H. Wecker, The Church Health Educator,
Adventist Health Department, Wahroonga 2076
Australia. Copyright © The General Conference of SDA. 1989. (May be purchased
from the SSD Health Department for $10.00US)
My Body Temple, Teacher’s Manual and Felt Set. (Available at
SSD Health Department).
A Statement Regarding Smoking and Ethics
Smoking is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the world. It is
a universal ethical concept that prevention is better than cure. When it comes
to smoking, most countries are faced by an ethical paradox: while many decades
of research have provided incontrovertible evidence of the health hazards of
cigarette smoking, the tobacco industry still flourishes, often with either
tacit or overt government support. The ethics of smoking are made even more
serious by alarming revelations about the deaths and health risks caused by
second-hand smoke.
A serious question of international ethics is the exportation of cigarettes
to developing countries, especially cigarettes higher in lethal ingredients
than admissible elsewhere.
For over a century, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has warned its youth and
the general public regarding the addictive and health destroying nature of tobacco
smoking. Cigarettes are a world-wide health hazard because of the combination
of addiction coupled with the economic greed of the tobacco industry and segments
of the marketing community. Seventh-day Adventists believe that the ethics of
prevention require public policies that will reduce smoking, such as:
1. A uniform ban on all tobacco advertising,
2. Regulations protecting children and youth who are being targeted by the tobacco
industry,
3. Stricter laws prohibiting smoking in public places,
4. More aggressive and systematic use of the media to educate young people about
the risks of smoking,
5. Substantially higher taxes on cigarettes, and
6. Regulations requiring the tobacco industry to pay for the health costs associated
with the use of its products.
Policies such as these would save millions of lives every year.
This statement was approved and voted by the General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists Administrative Committee (ADCOM) for release
by the Office of the President, Robert S. Folkenberg, at the Annual
Council session in San Jose, Costa Rica, October 1-10, 1996.
Chemical Use, Abuse, and Dependency
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, officially organized in 1863, early in its
history
addressed the use of beverage alcohol and tobacco. The Church condemned the
use of both as destructive to life, family, and spirituality. She adopted, in
practice, a definition of temperance which urged "total abstinence from
that which is injurious, and the careful and judicious use of that which is
good."
The position of the Church with respect to the use of alcohol and tobacco has
not changed. In recent decades the Church has actively promoted anti-alcohol
and anti-drug education within the Church, and united with other agencies to
educate the wider community in the prevention of alcoholism and drug dependency.
The Church created a "Stop-smoking
Program" in the early 1960's which has had a worldwide outreach and helped
tens of thousands of smokers to quit. Originally known as the "Five-Day
Plan" to stop smoking, it may well be the most successful of all cessation
programs.
The creation of hundreds of new drugs in laboratories, and the rediscovery and
popularization of age-old natural chemicals, such as marijuana and cocaine,
have now gravely complicated a once comparatively simple problem and pose an
ever-increasing challenge to both the Church and society. In a society which
tolerates and even promotes drug use, addiction is a growing menace.
Redoubling its efforts in the field of the prevention of dependency, the Church
is developing new curricula for its schools and support programs to assist youth
to remain abstinent.
The Church is also seeking to be an influential voice in calling the attention
of the media, public officials, and legislators to the damage society is suffering
through continued promotion and distribution of alcohol and tobacco.
The church continues to believe that Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 19:20
is applicable today, that "Our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost"
and we "should glorify God" in our bodies. We belong to God, we are
witnesses to His Grace. We must endeavor to be at our best, physically and mentally,
in order that we may enjoy His fellowship and glorify His name.
This public statement was released by the General Conference
president, Neal C. Wilson, after consultation with the 16 world vice
presidents of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, on July 5, 1990, at the
General Conference session in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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| Primary: Tell or write about a time when you saw someone with no vices. Middle: High school:
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