Family Home Evening for 1 Corinthians 8-13

 Find a fun way to read, draw, summarize, or act out 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

14 For the body is not one member, but many.

15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

18 But now hath God set the members every one of them  in the body, as it hath pleased him.

19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?

20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.

21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Discuss

How can your family apply Paul’s teaching to unity in your family? To unity in your church ward community? To unity in the world around you?

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Family Home Evening for 1 Corinthians 1-7

Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Lesson

In this scripture, Paul describes our bodies as a temple. (Show your children a picture of a temple or several temples) Ask your children what they notice about the temples. Point out that temples are beautiful, unique, clean, well kept, and strongly built.

Just like temples are beautiful, God created us to be beautiful and unique. Just like every temple looks differently on the outside and the inside, every person is different from every other person. 

Also just like temples are clean, well kept, and strongly built. We should take good care of our bodies. We can do this by staying clean, keeping our hair cut nicely, combing or brushing our hair, brushing our teeth, eating good foods, getting enough sleep, and exercising. 

 Most importantly, the outside of every temple has the inscription “House of the Lord Holiness to the Lord.” This means that the temples belong to Heavenly Father and Jesus. 

Our bodies also belong to Heavenly Father and Jesus. Paul reminds us that God gave His Only Begotten Son and Jesus gave His life as the price for your body. Because of Their sacrifices you have been given your body, and you will keep it forever, after you are resurrected. 

We should also keep in mind Paul’s reminder that our bodies are a house for the Holy Ghost to live in. The Holy Ghost cannot dwell in an unclean temple. So we need to keep our mind and heart clean and allow the Holy Ghost to guide our actions, so that we can always feel His influence.

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Family Home Evening for Romans 7-16

 Read or Summarize Romans 8:35-38

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Lesson

Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Heavenly Father gave you His Son, when He allowed Jesus Christ to suffer and die for not only all of your sins, or wrong things that you do, Christ also suffered for all of our pains and afflictions. This means that when you feel sad, hurt, sick, or overwhelmed, Christ felt it and suffered through it, and He knows exactly how you feel. 

In the scriptures, this week, we learn that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can become “more than conquerors” through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. This means that we don’t just make it through our hardships. When we rely on the Atonement of Jesus Christ to give us strength, courage, and power we can completely conquer anything. Paul bore his testimony that when we do this, nothing could separate us from the Love of God.

Discuss

When have you felt the love of God in a trial?

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Family Home Evening for Romans 1-6

 Read or Summarize Romans 3:23-28

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Activity 

Place a toy on a high shelf and ask your child to get it down. If they ask if they can get a chair or stool to help them. Say that they can (place it high enough that they still won’t be able to get it while standing on the object). Tell them that if they will give you a hug, tell you that they love you, and promise to listen to you that you will help them get the toy down. After they do those three things,  lift them up, so that they can reach the toy.

Lesson

Tell your child that the toy represents eternal life. Grace is “divine … help or strength, given through the bounteous mercy and love of Jesus Christ.” Through grace, all people will be resurrected and receive immortality. In addition, “grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after they have expended their own best efforts.” We do not earn grace through our efforts; rather, it is grace that gives us “strength and assistance to do good works that [we] otherwise would not be able to maintain.” No matter what we do, we can not receive eternal life, just like no matter what you did, you could not reach the toy. In this scenario, I (the parent) represented Jesus Christ. Eternal life is always there, just like the toy was always there, but in order to receive eternal life, we need to use the Grace of God, given to us through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Just like when you promised to love me and do all that you can do to show that love, by listening to me, then I used my strength to get the toy.  When we repent, love the Lord, and listen to and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ to the best of our ability. We receive the divine help and strength necessary to receive eternal life.

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