Extending the Lesson WEEK 6

Preventing Conflict

We have learned this week that wise-way choices are better than my-way choices and they can help prevent conflict. Below are lots of activities. Choose two of the role play activities and two of the worksheet pages.


Seek Godly Advice
"Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed." Proverbs 15:22

Role Play Activity: You are in a conflict with your sister about the closet space you share. Her things are always piled up on your side of the closet, resulting in messy conflicts. You decide to get advice from your mother on how to handle this problem. What would Mom say?

Make Right Choices
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9

Role Play Activity: Your friend stops by your house to ask you to go to the park. Your mother told you to clean up the family room while she is at the store because the new neighbors are coming over this evening. This is the third time this week that you would miss doing something fun with your friend. Act out two responses to your friend's request. Make sure one of them is a right choice. 

Do What Is Right According to the Bible
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." Psalm 119:105
"He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8

Role Play Activity: Your brother asked you to forgive him for getting mad and yelling at you during the swim team tryouts. He knew that it was wrong to embarrass you. First act out what you would feel like saying to him. Now act out the right way to respond do him according to the Bible.

Obey Your Parents and Others in Authority
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 'Honor your father and mother'—which is the first commandment with a promise— 'so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.'"

NOTE TO PARENTS: Once again, explain to your children that they need to obey only what is consistent with God's Word. They never need to obey a person who tells them to sin. If they are unsure whether to obey or not, it would be good for them to get advice from someone trustworthy.

Role Play Activity: Your cousin's friend asks you if you want to listen to her new CD. It's recorded by a group that your parents do not allow you to listen to. The girl makes fun of you when you tell her that you are not allowed to listen to that group. Act out the wrong and right ways to respond to her.

Speak and Act Respectfully to Everyone
"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Ephesians 4:29.

Role Play Activity: You are on a Little League baseball team. During a play-off game your coach yells at you because you missed catching a fly ball. Act out how you can respectfully respond to your coach.

Additional Workbook Activities:
1. Look at the Prodigal's My-way and Wise-way Choices on workbook page 4-8. Read the story about the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 and decide what part of the my-way sequence and the wise-way sequence describes his thoughts, words, and actions.
2. For Slip, Slop, or Stay on Top in your workbook page 4-9, draw a line from each of the choices to the matching response on the slippery slope. Then go back and cross out all of the my-way choices and circle all of the wise-way choices.
3. Oops I Blew It on workbook page 4-10: Using the my-way diagram, describe a time when you made a my-way choice. (C. Sande, pp. 68-69)
Sande, Corlette. The Young Peace Maker Teaching Students to Respond to Conflict God’s Way, Illustrated by Russ Flint, Wapwallopen, PA 18660, Shepherd Press, 1997.

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