Rev's complilation of student doodles

The Titanic struggle

Each student was given an identity and told that one must be voted off the life boat. We had a Single dad, Mum of 5 kids, High school teacher, Unemployed 18 year old, Recovering drug addict, 6 year old child, school athletics champion. It was a toss up between the unemployed 18 year old and the recovering drug addict. The consensus was that since the drug addict was stupid enough to take drugs in the first place they deserved to get chucked off the life boat. I asked whether any of us have made some stupid mistakes that we regret but it did not change the decision.

What we value

This game reveals what we value. Other groups kicked off a wealthy business owner, High school teacher, and the recovering drug addict x2. We make judgements about people based on what we value. Our values affect the decisions we make, the friends we have, the people we don’t like and how we treat them are all governed by our values.

Rules for the world

Students were asked to write down rules they would impose on the world if they could. Some of these were no killing, no war, no cutting down trees, and no violence/rape/abuse. There was also an agreement that they wanted more leisure time.

Problem killers

How would we enforce the no killing no war rule. People would be talked too, hypnotised, put in jail and killed. But if we kill killers then we then will be killed for being killers of killers. At this point someone made up a new world to describe this weird situation, killering.

Universal rules

Are there some universal rules that we all would agree on? Don’t murder, don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t cheat in your relationships were all agreed on. The Ten Commandments contain just these rules for the world. One student pointed out that the rules aren't working. The problem then is not the rules but those of us who break the rule.

Universal heart problem

The problem with each of us is that we all lie, steal, and get angry and hurt people. We do this because we want to, because it suits us or because we are trying to protect ourselves. Jesus Christ came into the world to change not the rules but our hearts. This affects the values we hold to so that we become much more willing help other people before ourselves.

Welcome Tom and Tash

Today Tom and Tash joined our small group.