Home Inspection - Preventative Maintenance

 

Objective - Students will learn how to perform preventive maintenance in their lives so they can live in integrity.

 

Scripture - 1 Corinthians 10:13 “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

 

Key Thought - Stop problems before they start.

 

Lesson Summary –

This was the final lesson in a four-part series called Home Inspection: Is Your Foundation Strong? In this series of lessons, we’ve been talking about how to live a life consistent with biblical principles.”—in short, how to live with integrity. “Integrity” means “to live a life consistent with biblical principles.”

This lesson focused on how to perform maintenance in the houses of our lives. We discussed two different kinds of maintenance that homes may need, and drew a comparison to the work that we need to do in our spiritual lives. Sometimes we need to fix our lives when they’ve been broken by sin. For that, we need to admit to God that we’ve done wrong things, and repent, or change our direction.

Additionally, we want to keep an eye on things in our homes before they become a problem. We can do that in our spiritual lives through relationships where a trusted friend holds us to the spiritual commitments that we have made, as well as building good disciplines into our lives like Scripture memory, Bible study, and quiet time.

To help your student know what the Bible says about an area of their life that may need preventative maintenance, we encouraged them to find out what the Bible says about that topic by doing an online search using the words, “What does the Bible say about               .” Sit down with them this week and do some research about what the Bible says about their topic of choice. Help them use Scripture to stop problems before they start.