Family Challenge Tips and Ideas

Life or Death

Scripture:  Deuteronomy 30:15-16
See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

Activity:  Gather items that represent joy and life and items that represent destruction and death.  Draw two paths with sidewalk chalk or use a rope to create the borders of the two paths.  have your family sort through the items you collected, placing the joy and life items on one path and destruction and death items on the other.  Feel free to get creative and draw your own items along the paths. Then walk each path and discuss the items you found.  When god gave Israel his laws and commands, he put two choices before them-the path of obedience and the path of disobedience.

Discuss:  God knows what is best for his people and he was clear about where each path leads. Obedience leads to life. Disobedience leads to death. God's people had to make a choice. Tell about a choice you made that had bad consequences. Read Proverbs 14:12. Why is it sometimes difficult to choose the right path?  Read John 14:6.  How does this truth encourage followers of Jesus?  What other resources has God give our family to help us stay on god's pathway that leads to life?

Lesson Learned:  God wants his people to choose the path of life and obedience.

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