Especialidades JA/Memorizar la Biblia/Respuestas 2
Nivel de destreza
1
Año
2014
Version
31.05.2024
Autoridad de aprobación
División Norteamericana
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Tip for earning from home during the pandemic |
| Video performances are a potential way to fulfill the demonstration pieces. A unit working together on this would make it more fun for all! |
Una Biblia viva es un amigo de Jesús con sus palabras aprendidas y viviendo en su corazón.
Algunos Conquistadores lo han descrito muy bien como:
- «Una Biblia con un corazón cálido; alguien fiel a Dios».
- «La Biblia contada vívidamente a través de personas que la exploran en acciones».
- «Contando la historia de Dios a través de mi corazón».
- «Ser una Biblia que puede hablar y tiene un objetivo en la vida».
- «Las historias bíblicas están vivas en mí».
- «Dando vida a mi Biblia».
- «Un amigo de Jesús con sus palabras aprendidas y viviendo en su corazón».
Estos doce atajos son como herramientas en un juego de herramientas de memoria.
Atajo 1: Orar.
Siempre ora primero. ¡Jesús realmente quiere sus palabras dentro de ti y está totalmente dispuesto a ayudar!
Atajo 2: Calentamiento.
Haga que ambos lados de su cerebro disparen con la máxima potencia para ver, oír y hacer. Los movimientos a través de la mitad de su cuerpo (su línea media) conectan los lados derecho e izquierdo de su cerebro. Entonces tiene más del doble de la capacidad de aprendizaje y recuerdo.
Atajo 3: Prepare las palabras.
- Imprimir o escribir en letras grandes.
- Use una nueva línea para cada versículo.
- Divida la aventura en secciones lógicas y manejables, con un encabezado para cada sección.
Note that each adventure has the same three parts:
- . Read the story to get a grasp of the story.
- . Prepare an introduction so as to set the scene.
- . Learn by heart the key verses of scripture.
Bible Translation(s) to use
Because of the diversity of our Pathfinder folk, we do not specify a specific translation of the Scriptures for application to this honor. The only stipulation is that it must be ‘true’ to God’s word. Of course, Pathfinders must be able to understand and identify with it.
If you are practicing for the PBE, the official translation in English is the New King James Version (NKJV). For Spanish, it is the Reina Valera 1995 (RVR1995). For French, it is the Version Louis Segond en Français.
The translation used in these notes is the New Living Translation (NLT) second edition. Other translations can be accessed at Bible Gateway.
Hints for Preparing Scripture Adventure Pages
- Divide the adventure which is to be learned into manageable, logical sections.
- Start each verse, or phrase, on a new line to make it easy to see and remember.
- Use a size 12 font to make it easy to see and remember.
- If it takes two pages, use both sides of the page.
Hints for learning the Scripture Adventure
We will use the God Ruins the Bullies’ Evil Trick Adventure as an example.
- Always pray together first!
- Continue to establish the honor as a doing experience by doing the fun warm up together. Stay standing while exploring the Bible adventure.
- Divide Pathfinders into groups of six or more. If you have twelve or fewer in the class, consider keeping all the creativity together in one group.
- Each group sets the story out in their corner. For example ‘the bullies’ hideout is there’, ‘the palace is there’, ‘Daniel’s house is there’, ‘the lions’ den is there’.
- Everyone in the group reads their first verse eight times out loud together, while walking, experimenting with what movement (or two) to use to explain that verse. It’s even quicker if you listen to the verse from a person or video and copy that, instead of reading.
- Then the group decides together which movements to keep for that verse. Please only offer help when needed; observe and encourage.
- Someone can be Daniel, the king, or the stone. Use your imagination. Everyone still tells the story with voice and movement while that person carries out their action.
- The group could decide to have parts of the adventure told by one person. However, each Pathfinder must still learn all the verses for their solo sharing.
- Move from ‘place’ to ‘place’ with the action. Point to the action. Or carry out a movement in unison which explains the action. The group might split into sections and have the sections interact with words and movements. Keep experimenting until something special happens – it always does! Stay prayerful!
By now, everyone has definitely put their pages down. The group practices the verse, all together, at the same time, out loud, without their pages, at least eight times, until it’s fun, rhythmical and full of action. Listen to each other; pause between phrases, start together.
Doing just the movements without words shows where the weak parts are!
Then go to the next verse similarly. Take 20 to 30 minutes to learn the three verses that make up one section of the adventure. There are four sections in each adventure.
Decide on an anchor phrase for each verse – ‘the bullies’, ‘when the king’, ‘in the evening’. Say these together at the beginning of the section.
If you have four groups, they can simultaneously learn a different section each, and have the whole passage ready to tell, one group after the other, after the first half hour! Every half hour (preferably on a different day), they learn a different section, and come together to tell the adventure through.
Each Pathfinder must be part of sharing the adventure twice; one telling must be solo.
Doing Alive Bible together outdoors encourages creativity. It’s great for camp weekends.
Prepare an Introduction
Now that a Bible adventure has been chosen and the story has been read from the Scriptures, it’s time to prepare the introduction. Teachers, it’s well worthwhile giving a big-picture introduction to give your honor-participants an appreciation of where the adventure fits into history and why it is important to learn God’s word. Feel free to use your own words.
The big picture
Away back in time, the devil was one of God’s angels who had a very important position in heaven but he was jealous of God and wanted to be God. There was war in heaven and the devil was cast out of heaven with his angel-followers to this earth. The devil wants all humans to be on his side. See Isaiah 14: 13, 14 and Revelation 12:7-9.
Jesus is the Leader of everyone who wants God’s Light and forgiveness and love and power. But we are born into this world where the devil claims we all belong on his Dark Side. We don’t have to stay under the devil’s influence because Jesus has paid the ransom price. All we have to do is ask Jesus to ransom us and He takes us away from the devil’s team. The Bible is full of reports of people who want to be on Jesus’ side, how hard He works to get them there, and how big the war between Dark and God’s Light really is. Learning the Bible adventures by heart makes us strong to stay true to Jesus.
Introduction to God Ruins the Bullies’ Evil Trick
Daniel grew up in a family who were on Jesus’ side. His country was meant to be on God’s side too, but they started giving themselves to idols as well, so God had to follow through on His promise to take His protection away if they took their loyalty away. Daniel was captured by an enemy king. He chose to stay on Jesus’ side no matter how hard it got. In this life-threatening adventure, the men on the Devils’ team try to kill Daniel, and he has to decide if he is willing to die for praying in the open.
Introduction to The ‘Ghost’ on the Water
Jesus’ disciple friends have gone with Him to hide up in the mountains to have time to be sad about Jesus’ God-sent cousin John the Baptist having been murdered by terrible King Herod. Many people want Jesus to heal them so their helpers searched the lakeside mountains to find Jesus. His heart moves with compassion for them and He works all day to give them a miracle each! As the crowds were hungry and there was no food available, Jesus met their physical needs by making a feast from a few small fish and loaves of bread. After this the crowd were keen for Jesus to become their king and fight off the cruel Romans. Jesus knows this wouldn’t help them be His true Forever Friends, so ….
Jesus’ friends have noticed that when they have God’s Words alive inside them they:
- Think about Jesus more often. Jesus becomes more important. They become more like Jesus!
- They are more certain of how much God loves them. They are a more confident Christian.
- They are a stronger follower of Jesus and see themselves as His full-time disciple.
- They use God’s Words inside them when making decisions. They rely on God’s Words like Jesus did.
- They face the devil’s temptations confidently, as Jesus did, with God’s Words as awesome ‘weapons of divine power to vanquish the enemy’! Vanquish means to totally win the battle.
- They share about Jesus more naturally with other people.
- They get thirsty for more of God’s Words inside them to give them more of God’s love and power.
- They have fun learning the exciting and dangerous adventures of people in the Bible.
- They follow their Bible heroes to grow a strong Christian character.
Your group may well think of other effects.
Incorporate these questions into your group debrief. Make this honor a faith transmission experience!
* Note: PBE is a North American Division Bible memorizing team-based adventure. Each team member memorizes 4-6 chapters so that collectively the team has memorized entire books of the Bible. See PathfindersOnline for more details.
** Note: For the sake of this honor, memorization of all 4-6 chapters that is traditionally required for PBE team mastery is more than is required for this honor. Use wisdom to assess memorization at a level similar to other requirements in the honor.
References
Video of honor being taught and links to worksheet http://snswyouth.adventist.org.au/pathfinders
