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这是一套在美国很受欢迎的教材，按年龄共分三部分：0-6岁学龄前儿童教程，6-12岁学龄儿童教程，和12岁以上青少年教程。我们将陆续翻译成中文，分享给大家。
这套教材里的每一篇，无论是教程还是各种活动，都独立成篇，没有先后顺序，大家可以按需要和负担选择使用。
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1.使学生相信真理的存在并知道什么是真理
2.教导真实的生活是以耶稣为是非标准的生活
3.帮助学生计划过一个有信念和真实的生活
主题
指导，诚实，真理，智慧
背诵经文
士师记17:6
开始祷告(5-10分钟)
团队建造(15分钟)
课堂起头(10分钟)
(玩真假游戏。这些陈述都是错误的。这里的想法是让学生再次思考真假对错。让他们投票，猜测，或以任何你想要的方式，只要玩得开心。）
1.斯普林菲尔德是美国第二大受欢迎的城市名字。（错误，它是最受欢迎的。塞勒姆是第二受欢迎的。）
2.奥克兰运动员在大联盟中赢得的世界系列冠军数量是第二多的。（错误，答案是圣路易斯红雀队。）
3.你的身体每秒钟创造和销毁一百万个红细胞（错误。是1500万。）
4.“Jiffy”（比如，“我会很快回来/I’ll be back in a jiffy”）不是实际的时间单位。（错误。它是一秒的百分之一。）
5.有史以来鸡飞行的最长时间是四十八秒（错误。只有13秒。）
深入学习(30分钟)
真理/真相有时可能很奇怪，对吧？
圣经对真理有很多论述。圣经中提到“真理”一词200多次。很多！
有一件事是无法否认的：真理确实存在。
问题讨论：
1.你认识不相信真理的人吗？
2.你认识会说“对你来说对，对我来说可能不对”这种说法的人吗？你对此有什么看法？
有些事确实是这样。圣经强烈肯定真理的存在，除了圣经的主张外，其实很少有人不相信真理或不相信有对错。这几乎是常识：真理自我独立存在。在这一点上，还是有许多人存在分歧，包括家人、朋友、老师和名人。人们会声称有“他们有自己的真理”。
在查看有关我们生活中真理标准的经文之前，重要的是意识到如果没有标准，生活会是什么样子。
（朗读士师记中这些经文。然后简要介绍士师记的重复结构。在这里不要花太多时间，只是打下基础，然后转到真理标准部分。）
读 士师记17:6和21:25
以色列在这个历史时期，类似于我们今天的世界，人们在某种程度上随心所欲。他们按个人标准回答对错问题。他们个人有“他们自己的真理”，也不强加于彼此。每个人都为自己而战。这产生了一个恶性循环。（可以在黑板上说明这个五点循环。）
• 与神建立立约关系，自由生活
• 做他们想做的事，不忏悔，失去神的喜悦
• 成为另一个权力的俘虏，作为一个国家受苦
• 向神呼求拯救
• 神拯救以色列脱离危险，恢复关系
• 重复
在士师记中清楚地表明（在我们的世界中也是如此），如果你没有一种生活的标准，混乱就会发生。但是标准是什么？
刚才谈到圣经中提到真理的次数有多少次（超过200次）。我们上周谈到耶稣宣称自己就是真理（见约翰福音14:6）。在圣经的200多次提到真理中，有70多次是出自耶稣在福音书中说的。仅在马太福音中就有30多次。让我们查一些出来：
读 马太福音5:18, 26, 17:20, 21:21
问题讨论：
1.耶稣一再说什么？（“我实实在在告诉你们。”）
2.耶稣为什么这么频繁地说这句话？（他想强调重要性。）
3.耶稣可信吗？为什么？（祂是神的儿子，当然可以相信。）
4.为什么你认为更多的人不将耶稣作为他们的标准？（允许学生猜测。）
5.如果耶稣在马太福音中说了30多次祂在告诉我们真理，是什么阻止你将祂作为你的是非标准？
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真理不是相对的。当然，有时候存在灰色地带。但是有一个真理的标准，祂的名字是耶稣。祂可能不会告诉我们所有我们需要知道的事情（例如，祂没有教导我们如何平衡开支），但我们所知道和决定的一切都可以通过耶稣的认可来看。这就是做门徒的意义。关于何时何地说话，和谁约会，以及你的职业将会是什么等等的决定，应该保留给真理的赐予者，耶稣，让祂来影响我们。
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可选活动（10分钟）
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我的方式（个人忏悔活动）
悔改是过真实生活、辨别对错并走正路的重要部分。勇敢而真实地面对你所做的那些你知道耶稣不赞同的错误的事情。现在就写下这些事情。思考为什么你知道它们是错误的。向神求教，让祂向你显明真理。默读诗篇53，并将其作为祷告诵读给神，求祂帮助你从现在开始过上不同的生活。
诗篇53
愚顽人心里说，没有神。他们都是败坏，行了可憎恶的事；没有一个人行善。神从天上垂看世人，要看有明白的没有，有寻求祂的没有。他们各人都退后，一同变为败坏；并没有行善的，连一个也没有。作孽的没有知识么？他们吞吃我的百姓如同吃饭一样，并不呼求神。他们在无可惧怕之处，大大的害怕，因为神把那安营攻击你之人的骨头散开了。你使他们蒙羞，因为神弃绝了他们。但愿以色列的救恩从锡安而出！神使祂被掳的子民归回，那时雅各要欢腾，以色列要喜乐。
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应用(10分钟)
问题讨论：
1.有其他对错标准会影响一个人吗？（地方法律，父母，朋友。）
2.今天有哪些常见的其他的对错标准？（允许学生分享。）
3.对比这些影响，耶稣有多大程度地影响了你的生活？（允许学生分享。）
4.你多久会简单地按照“你自己的眼光”做正确的事？（允许学生分享。）
在士师记中，以色列因为按照自己的方式生活而陷入麻烦。当这种情况发生时，他们呼求神，神会毫不犹豫地拯救他们。
结束祷告(2分钟)
大家手牵手。以色列作为一个国家进行了共同的忏悔。我们作为一个团体也需要忏悔，并相互劝导按照耶稣教导的方式生活。
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Truth or Dare? (Part 1)
Lesson 2: The Truth Is
LESSON OBJECTIVESGoals
1. To convince students that Truth exists and to know what Truth is2. To instruct that denial of truthful living and judgment are synonymous3. To help students plan to live lives of conviction and honesty
Topics
Guidance, Honesty, Truth, Wisdom
Scripture Memorization
Judges 17:6
OPENING PRAYER (5 to 10 minutes)
GROUP BUILDING (15 minutes)
Blanket Name Game (Game) Click here
GETTING STARTED (10 minutes)
(Play a game of fact or fiction. These statements are all false. The idea here is simply to get students thinking again about true/false, right/wrong. Have them vote, guess, or however you want to structure it. Have fun.)
1. Springfield is the second most popular city name in the United States. (False, it’s the most popular. Salem is 2nd most popular.)
2. The Oakland Athletics have won the second greatest number of World Series Championships of any franchise in the Major Leagues. (False, the answer is the St. Louis Cardinals.)
3. Your body creates and destroys one million red blood cells per second (False. It is 15 million.)
4. “Jiffy” (as in, “I’ll be back in a jiffy”) is not an actual unit of time. (False. It is one-hundredth of a second.)
5. The longest a chicken has ever been witnessed to fly is forty-eight seconds (False. It was only 13 seconds.)
DIGGING IN (30 minutes)
The truth can be weird sometimes, can’t it?
The Bible says a lot about truth. Over 200 times the word “truth” is mentioned in Scripture. That’s a lot!There is one thing that cannot be denied: Truth exists.
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you know anyone who doesn’t believe in truth?
2. Do you know anyone who says that “what’s right for you may not be right for me”? What do you think of that?
Some things just are. The Bible makes a strong case that the truth exists, but beyond the Scriptural claims, there are very few people who do not believe in truth or that there is a right and wrong. It’s common sense almost: the truth just is. On this point many people disagree, including people in your family, your friends, your teachers, and celebrities. People claim to have “their own truth.”
Before we look at Scriptures concerning the standard of truth in our lives, it’s important to realize what life is like if there is no standard.
(Have someone read these scriptures in Judges. Then walk through the cycle of Judges. Don’t spend too much time here, just lay the foundation and move on to the standard of truth section.)
Read Judges 17:6 and 21:25
In this historical period for Israel, similar to our world today, people sort of made up their own mind on what to do. They personally answered questions of what was right and wrong. They had “their truth” and didn’t force things on one another. It was every person for him or herself. This produced a vicious cycle. (As an option, you may want to illustrate this five-point cycle on the board.)
• Live in covenant relationship with God, live freely
• Do what they want, don’t repent, fall out of favor with God
• Become captive to another power, suffer as a nation
• Cry out to God to be saved• God rescues Israel from danger, restores relationship
• Repeat
It’s clear in the book of Judges (and in our world) that if you don’t have a standard of living, chaos ensues. But what is the standard.
We talked a few minutes ago about how many times the Bible talks about Truth (over 200). We talked last week about how Jesus claimed to be the Truth (see John 14:6). But did you know that of the 200 mentions of Truth in Scripture, over 70 instances are from the mouth of Jesus in the Gospels. Over 30 are in Matthew alone. Let’s look a few up:
Read Matthew 5:18, 26, 17:20, 21:21
Discussion Questions:
1. What is it that Jesus says again and again? (“I tell you the truth.”)
2. Why do you think Jesus said this so often? (He wants to empathize the importance of what He was telling them.)
3. Do you think Jesus can be trusted? Why/why not? (He is the Son of God, of course He can be trusted.)
4. Why don’t you think more people use Jesus as their standard? (Allow students to speculate.)
5. If Jesus says over 30 times in Matthew that He is telling us the truth, what would keep you from using Him as your standard of right and wrong?
Truth IsTruth cannot be relative. Sure, there are gray areas sometimes. But there is a Standard of Truth, and His name is Jesus. He may not tell us everything we’ll ever need to know (He doesn’t instruct us how to balance our checkbook, for example), but everything we know and decide upon can be viewed through the lenses of Jesus' approval. This is what being a disciple is about. Decisions concerning how and when to speak, who to date, and what your career will be, etc., should be reserved for the Truth-giver, Jesus, to influence. |
Optional Activity (10 minutes)
My Own Way (Personal Repentance Activity) Click here PDF Version
MAKING IT REAL (10 minutes)
Discussion Questions:
1. What other sources of right and wrong could influence someone? (Local laws, parents, friends.)
2. Which ones are most common today? (Allow students to share.)
3. How much do you think Jesus influences your life compared to these other influences? (Allow students to share.)
4. How often do you simply do what is right “in your own eyes”? (Allow students to share.)
In Judges, Israel found themselves in trouble having lived their own way. When this happened, they cried out to God and, without fail, God saved them.
CLOSING PRAYER (2 minutes)
Join hands as a group. Israel repented corporately as a nation. We, as a group, need to repent too and hold each other to living Jesus’ way.
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