Lit 271 the Ten Commandments Small Group Adventure    GROUP #________________

 

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First, journey back in time and imagine yourself as a member of Moses’s people.  Because Moses isn’t quite sure you clearly understand the meaning and importance of these commandments, he assigns your group to prioritize them.  He asks that you pick the most important five and rank them (most important first, and so on).  As a group you might select the commandments based upon which would lead most to group harmony and cooperation; or your group might decide that obedience should be the basis for selecting and prioritizing them.  Regardless, as a group, select the most important five and put them in order of importance.  Be sure to record your group’s rationale for the selections and rankings you agreed upon. Your spokesperson will share your group’s list with the rest of us.

The Ten Commandments

  1. You shall have no other gods before me.
     
  2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
     
  3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain (swearing a false oath).
     
  4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

 

  1. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
     
  2. You shall not murder.
     
  3. You shall not commit adultery.
     
  4. You shall not steal.
     
  5. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor (lies and false accusations).
     
  6. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife [or husband], nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, [nor the Corvette] nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”