What does it mean to be self-reliant?
The ability, commitment, and effort to provide the spiritual and temporal necessities of life for self and family.
What is self-reliance
When you start earning an income what should you pay first and how much?
What is tithing, 10%?
What do you and your family do to prepare for a natural disaster (such as an earthquake or hurricane or forest fire)?
What is food storage, emergency kits, escape plans, emergency cash, take care of your home, pet supplies
Name a hymn or song that talks about work? Read the lyrics to the class.
Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel, When We're Helping, Pioneer Children, As Sisters in Zion, Have I Done Any Good In the World Today
This parable teaches us the dangers of not being spiritually prepared.
Matthew 25:1-13
What is the parable of the ten virgins
As members become self-reliant, they are better able to _________ and _________ for others
What is serve & Care
What are the appropriate things to finance (take out loans for) according to church best practices?
Home, Education, Transportation
What are some "spiritual disasters" or trials we might face?
ideas: temptations, hard choices, questions not answered according to our timeline, death of a loved one, loneliness, illness/disability, etc.
The Lord has commanded us not to be _____. ___________ can lead to inappropriate behavior, damaged relationships, and sin. One form of ________ is spending excessive amounts of time in activities that keep you from productive work, such as using the Internet, playing video games, and watching television.
What is Idle, Idleness?
This parable teaches us that we must use our talents to grow and serve; and that fear, idleness, and ignoring promptings will not help us become self-reliant.
Matthew 25: 14-19
What is the parable of the talents.
Share a personal example of when you have used your blessings and/or abilities to care for yourself or for others.
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When you are older and have a family, what % of your income should be spent on housing?
What is no more than 30%
What is spiritual self reliance?
What is faith in Jesus Christ so powerful that we can pass the test of life.
What are some of the blessings you will receive from becoming a hard worker?
help you contribute to the world, opportunities will increase, bring an increased sense of self-worth, help you to serve others, you will enjoy using your talents and abilities, helps build relationships,
"Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a ________ ________, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness."
(D&C 58:26-28)
What is good cause?
Name some ways or areas in which we should be self-reliant.
Health, Education, Employment, Food Storage, Finances, Spiritual Strength, (Handbook 2: Administering the Church (2010) 6.1.1)
Many young adults in the world are going into debt to get an education, only to find the cost of school is greater than they can repay. Seek out _________ and ______. Obtain part-time _____________, if possible, to help pay your own way. This will require some sacrifice, but it will help you succeed.
What is scholarships, grants, employment?
How can I develop spiritual self-reliance?
Continually: be obedient, feast upon the word of God, pray always, pay a full tithe, follow the prophet, act upon the promptings of the Holy Ghost, develop a testimony
Work is _________. Developing the capacity to work will help you __________ to the world in which you live. It will bring you an increased sense of ____________. It will _______ you and your family, both now and in the future.
What is honorable, contribute, self-worth, bless?
"This we command you, that if any would not ______, neither should he eat."
(2 Thessalonians 3:10-13)
What is Work?
D&C 88:124
Cease to be idle; cease to be unclean; cease to find fault one with another; cease to sleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated.
You can become self-reliant by (1) taking advantage of ___________ opportunities; (2) practicing sound principles of _______ and _______; (3) preparing for and obtaining suitable __________; (4) storing a supply of _______and ________ to the extent the law allows; (5) managing your resources wisely, including paying _______ and _______and avoiding _______; and (6) developing spiritual, emotional, and social _________.
What is educational, nutrition, hygiene, employment, food, clothing, tithes, offerings, debt, strength?
“It will take unshakable _____ in the Lord Jesus Christ to choose the way to eternal life. It is by using that _____we can know the will of God. It is by acting on that ____we build the strength to do the will of God. And it is by exercising that _____in Jesus Christ that we can resist temptation and gain forgiveness through the Atonement.”
What is Faith?
When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer--no matter how eloquent the oration. President _______________ put it this way: “It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we’ll make the effort. … It’s in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled.”
Who is Thomas S. Monson?
Find or tell one other scripture or scripture story that teaches about self-reliance or a principle of it.
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