The Family: A Proclamation to the World
Lesson 2 – Agency & Accountability
Excerpt:
“In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life.”
Objectives:
-The Role of Agency and Accountability in the Plan of Salvation
-Importance of using our Agency properly
Song:
Primary #158 - Dare to Do Right General #239 - Choose the Right
Activities:
Activities:
Hold up your hands and show your family how you can move your fingers. Explain that you can choose how your hands will move. Help your family understand that although you can choose to move your own hands and fingers you cannot make that choice for anyone else. Have your family hold their hands up. Ask them to do something with their hands (open and close fingers, spread fingers wide, touch the thumb and pointer fingers, and so forth). Do several things. Praise them for being obedient. Tell them that just as they chose to be obedient with their hands, they can also choose to be obedient with their bodies and minds.
( http://www.sugardoodle.net/ADOBE/FHE_Agency.pdf)
Pass a basket of small candies around the room. Tell each person which candy they must choose. Pass it a second time letting each person choose their own candy. Discuss the difference between the two rounds.
( http://www.sugardoodle.net/ADOBE/FHE_Agency.pdf)
We started out with a treasure hunt with clues that were a little bit difficult. We let them fail and then get it right. The clues led to our snack. After they found the "treasure" we talked about how just like finding the clues had consequences (not finding the next clue or finding it), so does every decision we make have consequences, good or bad. When it is too hard we can ask someone (pray) and they will help us (Holy Ghost). If we make the wrong decision (sin) we can change it (repent) and we can start over (forgiveness).
(Idea by Linda Leary / http://www.sugardoodle.net/Family%20Home%20Evening/FHEIndex.shtml)
Scriptures:
Premortal Agency:
Premortal Agency:
Moses 4:3
Abraham 3:22-28
Agency:
Joshua 24:15
2 Nephi 2:27
D & C 58: 26-28
Accountability/Consequences:
Deuteronomy 11:26-28
Helaman 14:30-31
D & C 101:78
Articles of Faith 1:2
Quote:
“Agency is the ability and privilege God gives us to choose and to act for ourselves. Agency is essential in the plan of salvation. Without it, we would not be able to learn or progress or follow the Savior. With it, we are "free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil" (2 Nephi 2:27).
“God's children have power to choose; they had this ability even before they were born. In the premortal life, Heavenly Father presented His plan, which included the principle of agency. Lucifer rebelled and "sought to destroy the agency of man" (Moses 4:3). As a result, Lucifer and all those who followed him were denied the privilege of receiving a mortal body. All who have been or will be born on earth chose to follow Heavenly Father's plan.
“In this life, people continue to have agency; even if their personal freedoms are restricted or taken away, they can choose how to feel and react. Their use of their agency determines their happiness or misery in this life and in the life to come. People are free to choose and act but are not free to choose the consequences of their actions. The consequences may not be immediate, but they will always follow. Choices of good and righteousness lead to happiness, peace, and eternal life, while choices of sin and evil eventually lead to heartache and misery.“
– True to the Faith
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