New Testament LESSON 17
Teaching Sunday School – Come Follow Me just got easier with our activities for APRIL (week #4)
Theme: “What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?”
Matthew 18; Luke 10
YOU WILL FIND:
• SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS to get them reading.
• Then scroll down to find Lesson-Match Interactive Activities to match the CFM curriculum
SCRIPTURE SCHOLARS is not only for SUNDAY SCHOOL youth but also for Primary, and for Individuals and Families.
The STAMPS & STAMP KEEPER are found HERE for APRIL
Lesson 17 Scripture Scholars
Week’s Scripture Scholars BOOKMARKS & scripture POP-UP Includes:
• BOOKMARKS with Come, Follow Me scriptures to read and discuss topics for Primary and Individuals and Families. Also, for Sunday School (teens).
• POP-UP to glue in scripture binding next to scripture you underline.
EXTRA ITEMS (not included) … THERE’S MORE:
• STAMP. Award readers with a STAMP for the week’s scripture reading. See below to find matching STAMPS.
• STAMP KEEPER. These can be placed on the STAMP KEEPER (see below) where you can collect 50 stamps for the year
Lessons 14-18 Scripture Scholars
April’s BUNDLE of BOOKMARKS, POP-UPs, and STAMPS. Glue STAMPS onto the STAMP KEEPER (to download separately, below).
Click on the weekly lesson posters (below) to find interactive activities:
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. . . FORGIVE TO BE FORGIVEN . . .
We must forgive others if we are to receive forgiveness from the Lord.
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How could you use the parable of the unmerciful servant to inspire class members to be more forgiving? Perhaps you could write questions like the following on the board and invite class members to ponder them as one person retells the parable: Who does the king represent? Who does the unmerciful servant represent? Who does the fellow servant represent? What do the debts represent? Invite class members to share what messages the parable has for them personally. (See also “Additional Resources.”)
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You could invite the class to create an adaptation of the parable of the unmerciful servant that teaches the same lessons about forgiveness using modern situations and details. (Consider having them work on this in groups.) Discuss how the parable answered Peter’s question about how many times he should forgive.
Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. UNMERCIFUL SERVANT forgiveness story wall hanging. Youth can connect this Matthew 18:21-35; 6:12, 14-15 story with D&C 58:42 filling in the blanks to discover how Jesus’s disciples were not forgiving and were afflicted with the greater sin. The Lord is the one to forgive; we are required to forgive all. READ MORE
YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. “FORGIVE OTHERS” scripture poster/card set. Youth can memorize D&C 64:10 “I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men.” READ MORE
. . . LOVE GOD & NEIGHBORS . . .
To obtain eternal life, we must love God and our neighbors.
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Here’s an idea that might give class members a fresh view of the parable of the good Samaritan: Invite them to pretend that they are investigating a case of assault and robbery on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem. Ask a few class members to come to class prepared to represent the different people in the parable and talk about their involvement in the case. For example, what might be some reasons the priest and Levite didn’t stop to help the injured man? Why did the Samaritan stop? What thoughts could the innkeeper add? How might the injured man have felt about each of the others? Make sure the discussion inspires class members to be like the good Samaritan and the innkeeper and avoid being like the priest and Levite.
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How does the parable of the good Samaritan answer the questions asked of Jesus in Luke 10:25–29? Invite class members to talk about times when they felt like the “certain man” (verse 30) who needed help desperately. How did help come? How can we as ward members work together to help others, like the good Samaritan and the innkeeper did?
YOUTH GOAL PLANNER. GIVE SERVICE OUTSIDE YOUR FAMILY. Youth can use this in council meetings with the bishop to plan projects or individually to find opportunities on the JustServe website or app. The ideas can be written here. The reactions of the person served can be recorded. Goals for future service opportunities can be listed. It’s great for brainstorming and planning. READ MORE
YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. HUMBLE DEEDS Secret Service. Youth can learn ways to walk humbly as they serve others as Jesus did. Read the story of the proud rich and humble poor Zoramites and the Rameumpton (Alma 34:28-29). Then allow the youth to place this list of Secret Service Deeds in the pocket with the button cards that read “This good deed for you shows my service true.” Then they can do good deeds and leave the card to show they have been there, secretly. READ MORE
. . . CHOOSE “THAT GOOD PART”. . .
We choose “that good part” by making daily choices that lead to eternal life.
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After reading Luke 10:38–42 as a class, you could ask class members how they might have reacted to the Savior’s counsel if they had been in Martha’s place. How might this experience have affected their future choices? How can we know what things in our own lives deserve more time and attention? Class members could search President Dallin H. Oaks’s message “Good, Better, Best” (Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2007, 104–8) to find counsel that can help them.
YOUTH GOAL ACTIVITY. DECISIONS DETERMINE DESTINY planner. Youth can go miles and miles with this planner by driving their goals from HOME to SCHOOL, to CHURCH, and to WORK. They can put themselves in the driver’s seat by making responsible decisions about each of these areas. READ MORE
Simplify – weed out the unnecessary – to make room for the important.
YOUTH LESSON ACTIVITY. PLANTING MY ETERNAL GARDEN decision maker. Youth can “plant” in this garden planner things they will “try not to” do and things they will “try to” do to make the best choices of their time and attention. With this plan, they can purposefully plant in their flowerbed flower seeds rather than weeds to grow toward eternal life to achieve all that God wants for us. READ MORE
. . . GOD’S GRACE UPON US . . .
The debts in the parable of the unmerciful servant.
Commenting on the debts owed in the parable of the unmerciful servant, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said:
“There is some difference of opinion among scholars regarding the monetary values mentioned here—and forgive the U.S. monetary reference—but to make the math easy, if the smaller, unforgiven 100-pence debt were, say, $100 in current times, then the 10,000-talent debt so freely forgiven would have approached $1 billion—or more!
“As a personal debt, that is an astronomical number—totally beyond comprehension. (Nobody can shop that much!) Well, for the purposes of this parable, it is supposed to be incomprehensible; it is supposed to be beyond our ability to grasp, to say nothing of beyond our ability to repay. That is because this isn’t a story about two servants arguing in the New Testament. It is a story about us, the fallen human family—mortal debtors, transgressors, and prisoners all. Every one of us is a debtor, and the verdict was imprisonment for every one of us. And there we would all have remained were it not for the grace of a King who sets us free because He loves us and is ‘moved with compassion toward us’ [Doctrine and Covenants 121:4]” (“Be Ye Therefore Perfect—Eventually,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2017, 41).
POST-AND-PRESENT ACTIVITY. GUESS WHO WAS SAVED BY THE SAVIOR? Youth will learn the Book of Mormon stories of Enos, Alma the Younger, Zeezrom, King Lamoni’s father, and the man brought to Jesus. This will give them hope that they too can be saved because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. READ MORE
YOUTH ACTIVITY. “I STAND ALL AMAZED at the love Jesus offers me” sacrament thought card. Youth can memorize 3 Nephi 11:14 and write their feelings about the Savior. Verse 14 witness the nail prints on His side, hands, and feet to know He is the God of Israel and the whole earth, slain for the sins of the world. READ MORE
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INDEX FOR THIS MONTH’S ACTIVITIES
