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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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February: Intellectual Honesty 
By Helene Hubbard
Teaching “ultimate truth” with intellectual honesty is every teacher’s mission. Not to patronize with outrageous oversimplification, not to obfuscate with tedious nonilluminating details, not to erect barriers to learning, but to lead along a well-marked path.
People with cognitive challenges will tend to oversimplify anyway—to skip, ignore, misunderstand, or focus solely on details. They have many barriers to learning:
• inexperience with appropriately challenging material,
• feelings of inadequacy (or even shame)
• lack of self-confidence
• poor reading and comprehension skills
• difficulty with expressive language (making it hard to share “what’s inside”)
• echoes of frustration and resentment associated with learning activities
• habits of “just getting it over with”
• sidling out of the “hard stuff.”
Yet they are eager to follow the well-marked path—once you show them the way.
Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal
“Not I, but Christ”
“I Would Be Like Jesus”
“Day by Day”
Quarterly Theme Song
“Spirit, Bear Fruit in My Life,” by Gale Jones-Murphy; go to leadmagazine.org
6: Kindness
Use an ice cube to illustrate the power of kindness versus force. Smash the cube with a hammer. Hold the pieces in your hands and pass them from member to member. Warmth surpasses pounding.
Invite class members to share regrets for not showing kindness. Encourage them to role-play a “do-over” to express their true desire to be kind.
Have members choose someone at work and practice “random acts of kindness”—anonymously, if possible. Ask them to report the results next week.
13: Goodness
Invite members to share their experiences in showing kindness last week.
To illustrate the difference between doing good and being good, invite someone to bring two small flags and briefly explain the symbols. When invited accept the flag of the foreign country and wave it. Ask if you are now a citizen of the foreign country. How does one belong to a country? Follow up with discussing how we know we belong to God’s kingdom.
Conduct a debate: man is basically good at heart. Half take the affirmative; half the negative.
Discuss how others decide if we are good or bad? How can we determine whether or not we are “good”? List Bible texts to answer: “How do we develop goodness?”
List the practical benefits of accepting God’s goodness and following His law.
20: Faithfulness
Invite members to relate biblical and personal experiences of Luke 16:10.
Make a personal poster or a postcard of the saying “Trials are not a test of our faith but a chance to prove God’s faithfulness.” Discuss this as the class works on their posters. Mail postcards to someone needing encouragement.
Make an emblem to use on a certificate using the words “dependability,” “honesty,” “integrity,” “loyalty.” Across the certificate inscribe: “Well done, good and faithful servant, (Name).” Publicly present certificates to worthy youth and senior citizens.
27: Meekness
Write “Meek, not Weak.” List biblical characters who illustrate this concept.
Using Matthew 11:29 as the basis of discussion, present issues (easy to hard) that face class members when they must choose to trust God or to fight for themselves. Help them develop criteria by which to judge situations—because these decisions are less than straightforward, and your class members will need guidelines to use in making wise choices. Encourage participants to pray that God will give them the proper spirit of meekness.
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