High School -- Epistles,Feasts, Sacraments -- Overview

EPISTLES, FEASTS, AND SACRAMENTS

HIGH SCHOOL CLASS

This sample schedule is provided for the convenience of the Church School coordinator. Feel free to substitute your own dates and teachers. For example, the feast lessons are scheduled to occur the week before the feast, but will need to be moved for the movable feasts. The other lessons progress in order, epistles and then sacraments, with feasts interspersed.

Teachers:

           

 

Schedule of Classes:

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Romans: Give Account to God

ROMANS 14:12

 

Scripture verse: “So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.”

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should be able to recite the verse and to discuss its significance.
  2. Students should be able to list some concrete areas in which they need to be more responsible, and some ideas for progress in these areas.

 

Possible Lesson Plan:

  1. Open with prayer.

 

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1 Corinthians: Judging

I CORINTHIANS 5:12

Scripture verse: “For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?”

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should memorize the verse and understand its meaning and context.
  2. Students should know a bit of the history of the book of I Corinthians.
  3. Students should have some concrete ideas about how they can talk to their friends about wrong behavior.

Background on the book:

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1 Corinthians: Temptation

I CORINTHIANS 10:13

 

Scripture verse: “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

 

Objectives:

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Galatians: Justification

GALATIANS 2:16a

 

Scripture verse: “knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ…”

Objectives:

  1. Students should memorize the verse and understand its context.
  2. Students should be able, with God’s help, to combine this Scripture with the Scripture in James that says “Faith without works is dead” for a true picture of Orthodox salvation.
  3. Students should know an Orthodox response to the question, “Are you saved?”

 

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Ephesians: Saints

EPHESIANS 5:3

 

Scripture verse: “But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints.”

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should memorize the verse and understand the long and difficult words.
  2. Students should be able to contrast the world’s view of sex and the Lord’s.

 

Background on the book:

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