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TeacherAide Case For Freedom SESSION 6 HANDS ON To
start your class you can read some of the frivolous lawsuits and have students
defend or oppose the lawsuit. Divide
your group in half have them sit on opposite of each other. The students will
play the “lawyers” and you will play the “judge”. Read one of the
lawsuits below and the select a team to be the prosecutors and one to be the
defendants. Have the two teams tell why the case should be tried or why it
should be thrown out. As the judge keep track of which team does the better job
defending their position. You can give a reward for the group that does the
best. Finish by reading the convergence story about the O.J. Simpson trial. Here
are some of the lawsuits you can read: A student attending a college in Idaho fell from his window while mooning a friend. The student then sued the college, claiming that it had not provided adequate information about the dangers of upper-story windows. Jerry
Williams sued and won $14,500 plus medical expenses after his neighbor's beagle
bit him on the buttocks. The dog was on a chain in a fenced-in yard. Williams
had been shooting the dog repeatedly with a pellet gun at the time of the
incident. An
Arizona woman, Michele Nations, was walking through a park when she stumbled on
a gopher hole, tripped, and sprained her ankle. She sued the city for failing to
post a warning that such hazards might exist in the park. She won $450,000. A
California woman sued a grocery store after she dropped a six-pack of beer on
her feet. The woman was not injured, but she said that it hurt. She won the
lawsuit. A convicted killer serving time in Florida has sued the state because lightning knocked out the prison's satellite-television service. The inmate must now watch network television programs, which he claims often contain profanity, violence, and other offensive material.
THE MORE YOU KNOW Faith is the means to salvation because it is the good pleasure of God to save that way. By this means God can be the one who justifies the unjust and the justifier of those who believe. Meaning no credit will be attributed to man for his salvation since it was impossible for him to rescue himself from his previous sinful condition. Now, it may asked, “isn’t faith an act of work on our part that plays in our salvation,” making salvation more to do with us than we think? Ephesians 2:9 says that salvation is not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Therefore, if salvation is not from works, is faith a work that comes from us? The answer can be found in Ephesians 2:8, which states, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Emphasis added). Here we see that grace and faith are both gifts of God. Therefore, we need to recognize that, yes, this is our faith, but it has been given to us as a gift from God and needs to be understood in that sense. This point can be seen elsewhere in Hebrews 12:2, which the author says that “Jesus is the author and perfecter of faith.” Here is clearly seen that Jesus not only begins our faith (author) but that He also ends and completes our faith (perfecter) with no doubt that in the middle He sustains it. ILLUSTRATING
THE POINT This
story is of something that was alleged to have happened just a few years |