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Formerly Sabbath School Leadership, LEAD is a quarterly magazine to bring more power and polish to your Sabbath School programs and Sabbath School teaching.
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Faithfulness, February 13-19; Meekness, February 20-26; Self-Control, February 27-March 5 
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
The follow exercise can help us understand any or all of the three fruit: faithfulness, meekness, and self-control. The objective of this experience can either be discussion around just one of these qualities or about how the three can relate to one another. As the facilitator, pray and think about how you can best use this activity for either one attribute or looking at all of them in a connected fashion.
The objective, then, is to experience—in a trivial, fun way—how faithfulness, meekness, and self-control or a lack of these fruit impact the way we build our lives and play “the game” of life.
MATERIALS NEEDED
1. Jenga games.
2. The best scenario is to have one set of Jenga blocks for each four or five members of the class.
3. You can either buy a few games (about $20 each) or have the class members bring their games. There should be some floating around the church somewhere!
IMPLEMENTING LESSON
A Kinesthetic Activity
1. Jenga is a game that simply asks you to remove blocks from a tower, and then rebuild it even higher. The game comes with very simple instructions.
2. The caution (faithfulness, self-control) required for the game is obvious. It can also be a very frustrating game—and therefore humility (or meekness) is required.
3. Introduce the attribute you are discussing that day.
4. Say that you are going to invite them to participate in a little game that will hopefully extract some of the feelings and realities of the “real world.”
5. Tell the group that each team (if there is more than one) should see how high they can build the tower in comparison to the other teams. This will allow both individual and group feelings to develop.
6. Sooner or later each tower will crash. Ideally, this will take between 10-15 minutes.
Discussion questions
• What are some of the challenging pieces of our lives that we must remove and replace with care and caution? (e.g., bad habits, old and new ways of thinking, bad and good relationships, sin and spiritual development, saying no and yes, etc.)
• How can it be hard to remove things from our lives? Do we fear if we break up with that person or quit that addiction that our lives will come crashing down? Are we unsure that we are removing the piece that actually needs to be removed? Are we afraid to let ourselves and others down?
• What does it mean to have a steady (self-controlled, faithful) hand in our decision making? How do we gain wisdom, caution, and skill in delicate situations?
• And what about humility (meekness)? As we remove and add (turn left and right) in our lives, mistakes will happen. We are fallen human beings. How do we develop the
ability to feel remorse and seek forgiveness but at the same time enjoy the ability to laugh and not take ourselves too seriously but deal with the reality of our own frailty? How do we develop meekness of spirit instead of overcompensating for our weakness with false bravado?
• We will crash some towers in our lives. How does a spirit of meekness prevent us from allowing these crashes to topple our lives with God and others altogether?
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