青少年课程 (雅各书*第4章) | 你一生的年日

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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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课程目的

1.让学生认识到：生命是短暂的

2.激励学生将他们在地上的时光奉献给神

3.给学生一个机会，让他们愿意用自己的人生去服事别人

主题

承诺、永远的生命、扩展、服事、热心

背诵经文

其实明天的事你们并不知道。你们的生命是什么？你们原是一团雾气，出现少时，随后就不见了。 -雅各书 4:14

开头的祷告(5-10分钟)

团队建造(10分钟)

让我们一起玩“两个真相和一个谎言”的游戏。每个学生讲三个关于自己的事，其中两个是真的，一个是假的。小组的其他成员一起决定哪个是事实哪个是谎言。绕着圈进行，直到每个学生都轮到为止。

课堂起头(5分钟)

教学提示：这部分内容，通常用来把孩子的注意力集中起来; 可以用轮流提问每个孩子的方式来教，鼓励孩子猜答案，带动他们的积极性。

我这里有一些问题，看看你们如何回答： 

•人的平均寿命，1900年是50岁，现在是多少岁？（大概80岁）

• 公元400年时, 英格兰男性的平均寿命是多少岁？（30岁）

• 眼睫毛的平均寿命是多长？（150天）

• 如果一个人活到75岁，人的心脏一共能跳多少下?（25亿左右）

• 从30岁到70岁，你的鼻子和耳朵可以长半英寸。是真是假？（真的—软骨组织不会停止生长）

那么，除去耳朵长得更大，或是丢掉一些睫毛，我们该如何度过75年的人生？我们该如何把握25亿次的心跳？今天我们要来学习一些关于时间和生命的经节。让我们来看看。 

讨论问题：

1.你的人生有哪些目标？

2.你长大想做什么？

深入学习(30分钟)

雅各书 4:13-17

请把圣经翻到雅各书四章13-17节。在读的时候，我想请你们注意每一次提到的"时间"或"生命"。

教学提示：可以把经节数告诉孩子，让孩子自己总结，然后大人作纠正。

讨论问题：

1. 关于明天，雅各书告诉我们什么？（明天的事我们并不知道。）

2. 关于生命，雅各书告诉我们什么？（我们的生命原是一团雾气，出现少时就不见了。）

3. 你如何概括雅各书在这些经节里所陈述的内容？（生命转瞬即逝，智慧人注重活出讨神喜悦的生命。）

好，我们重点来看第十七节。雅各书告诉我们生命不是仅仅长长眼睫毛。

4. 我们生命应该如何度过？（应该去行善。）

雅各书4:17 说到：“因此, 人若知道行善，却不去行，这对他就是罪了。 ” 这是一句很有分量的话，但雅各书并不是圣经中唯一提到这一点的一卷书。我们要来看看圣经中其他有关这一点的经文。

教学提示：程度好的孩子，可以把以下经节分一部分给他，让他单独查出来，然后让他自己读过之后给出总结。

路加福音 12:22-31 & 马太福音 25:41-46

讨论问题：

1.这篇告诉我们关于生命的哪些信息？

2.我们应该作什么或不作什么？

路加福音12:42-48

讨论问题：

1. 这一段告诉我们关于生命的哪些信息？（我们必须留意我们如何生活。）

2. 我们应该作什么或不作什么？（我们真的应该行善！记住雅各所说的：我们的生命非常短暂。在短暂的生命中, 行善是一个很高的呼召。）

3. 你为别人作过哪些好事？

4. 你会花时间做哪些事？

教学提示：在继续下面的内容之前，可以给孩子5分钟休息时间。

应用(5分钟)

今天我们课程的结束与往常会略有不同。我们不是要来思考什么，我们要来作一些事。我想请你们想想，你们可以为别人作些什么事，并且实际地去作那些事。比如：

• 清理房间的垃圾

• 坐在那些看上去孤单的人身边

• 找到并鼓励三个曾经多年帮助你的人

• 帮某人好好地揉揉肩膀

• 把钱攒在一起，放在奉献箱，并标明用途

• 想想还有哪些事情可以做，我给你们几分钟时间思考

结束祷告(5分钟)

好, 今天让我们这样来结束。你知道如何摸到你的心跳或脉搏，现在，把你的手放在心脏或脉搏上。保持安静，就可以摸到。都摸到了吗？

我们的生命是很短暂的。25亿次的心跳似乎是很多，但即使是现在，我们也可以感觉到心跳在一次次地过去。圣经是对的，每一次的心跳也许都是我们的最后一次。我不是用这些来吓唬你们，说这些是为了激励你们：使用生命中的每一秒去行善。“不去行就是罪了”，而去行善就可以成为别人很大的祝福。阿们吗？阿们！

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James

Lesson 4: The Time of Your Life

LESSON OBJECTIVESGoals

1. To expose students to the truth that life is short

2. To motivate students to view their time on earth as a time to commit to God

3. To give students an opportunity to serve other people with their lives

Topics

Commitment, Community, Eternal Life, Outreach, Serving, Zealousness

Scripture Memorization

James 4:14

OPENING PRAYER (5 to 10 minutes)

GROUP BUILDING (10 minutes)

I have some trivia I want you to talk about in your groups. See how good you are at figuring some of this stuff out:

• In 1900, the average human life span was 50 years. What is it today? (Almost 80)

• The average lifespan of a male in the 400s in England was how much? (30 years)

• The average eyelash lives how long? (150 days)

• In a 72 year lifetime, how many times does the human heart beat? (2.5 billionish)

• Between the ages of 30 and 70, your nose and ears can grow by as much as  half an inch. True or False? (T—cartilage doesn’t stop growing)

Okay, so other than growing bigger ears and losing eyelashes, what are we supposed to do with the 75 years that we live? What are we supposed to do with the 2.5 billion beats of our heart? Today we’re going to study some verses that talk about time and our lives. Let’s get after it.

GETTING STARTED (5 minutes)

Discussion Questions:

1. What are some of the goals of your life?

2. What do you want to be when you grow up?

DIGGING IN (10 minutes)

Turn in your Bibles to James 4:13-17. As we read this, I want you to note each mention of time or reference to life.

Read James 4:13-17

Discussion Questions: 

1. What does James tell us about tomorrow? (We don’t know what will happen.)

2. What does James teach us about life? (It is a mist, it evaporates quickly.)

3. How would you sum up what James says in these verses? (Life goes by quickly, the wise focus on living lives that please God.)

Okay, let’s focus in on verse 17. James tells us that life is about more than growing eyelashes.

4. What does verse 17 say our lives should be about? (Doing good.)

James 4:17 says, "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins." That’s a strong statement, but James isn’t the lone voice in the Scriptures on this point. We’re going to look at some other passages that talk about the same thing.)

MAKING IT REAL (20 minutes)

Read Luke 12:22-31

Discussion Questions:

1. What does this passage tell us about our lives? 

2. What should we do or avoid?

Read Matthew 25:41-46

Discussion Questions:

1. What does this passage tell us about our lives?

2. What should we do or avoid?

Read Luke 12:42-48

Disussion Questions:

1. What does this passage tell us about our lives? (We will have to give an account for the way we lived.)

2. What should we do or avoid? (We really are here to do good! Keep in mind what James says: our lives are short. To do good in a short time is a high calling.)

3. How much good for others do you do?4. What do you spend your time doing?

We’re going to finish up a little differently today. Instead of praying or thinking or anything like that, we’re going to do something. I want you to think about something that you can do for someone else before you leave the church doors today and then actually do it. Maybe it is:  • Cleaning up the trash in the sanctuary between services 

• Sitting by someone who looks lonely 

• Finding and encouraging 3 people who have helped you through the years 

• Give someone a good shoulder rub 

• Pool some money together and put it in the offering plate and mark it “missions” 

• Think of something else. I’ll give you a couple of minutes

CLOSING PRAYER (3 minutes)

Guys, let’s close this way. You know how to feel your heart beat or pulse, do so now. Put your hand on your heart or feel your pulse. Get real quiet so we can all pick it up. Feel it?

Our lives are short. 2.5 million beats seems like a lot, but even right now we’re feeling beat after beat go by. And the Bible is true, each beat could be our last. I’m not saying that to scare you, I’m saying it to motivate you, to use every second of your life for good. Not to do so is a sin. To do so can be a great blessing to others. Amen? Amen.

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