{"id":32113,"date":"2014-11-18T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=32113"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:07:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:07:05","slug":"family-home-evening-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/family-home-evening-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Home Evening: Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve kvetched before about how hard it is to plan meaningful FHEs with older kids.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adhesive_bandage_drawing_nevit.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32117\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adhesive_bandage_drawing_nevit.svg_-300x81.png\" alt=\"Adhesive_bandage_drawing_nevit.svg\" width=\"300\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adhesive_bandage_drawing_nevit.svg_-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adhesive_bandage_drawing_nevit.svg_-1024x278.png 1024w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adhesive_bandage_drawing_nevit.svg_.png 1774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still struggling with it, but last night went pretty well, so I thought I&#8217;d share:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I asked everyone to imagine that they were going to teach a lesson at church about repentance and to think of an object lesson that they could use.<\/p>\n<p>We all shared our ideas. And then we critiqued them. In other words, we talked about which elements of the object lesson lined up with the idea of sin &#8211;&gt; repentance &#8211;&gt; atonement, and which elements could\u00a0be misleading. For example, my idea was to talk about getting a cut and then putting goo (What do you call that stuff? In our house, everything is just &#8220;goo&#8221; or &#8220;dust.&#8221;) and a band-aid on it, and how, through a process you don&#8217;t understand and couldn&#8217;t consciously replicate yourself, the skin looks good as new in a week. This led to an interesting discussion about how you might be tempted to ignore tiny cuts (no goo or\u00a0band-aid because it is so small), but you shouldn&#8217;t because ebola. As in: even tiny sins can sometimes cause big problems down the road if you aren&#8217;t careful. As for the critique, my son pointed out that healing a cut takes a long time, but forgiveness does not necessarily. And sometimes skin scars, but God&#8217;s forgiveness is complete. We each shared and critiqued our object lessons and my husband and I added in info about the repentance process and atonement as we went.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great conversation that gave us several different perspectives on the idea of repentance and also modeled and practiced critical engagement. For once, I was pleased. Now if, in the comments, y&#8217;all could just provide me 51 more zero-prep, engaging, meaningful lessons like this, I&#8217;d\u00a0be set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve kvetched before about how hard it is to plan meaningful FHEs with older kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Adhesive_bandage_drawing_nevit.svg_.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32119,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32113\/revisions\/32119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}