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Christian Charm Session 4 Table of contents Session #4 Charming Oppportunity Journal Literature Movie Discussion Activities Challenge Music & Art Geography Bible The time for doing a session is up to your family's needs. A session could be a day, a week, a month or whatever timeframe YOU need it to be!

Charming Opportunities Journal:

Have you recorded anything in your Charming Opportunities Journal either today, yesterday afternoon, or last night?

Literature:

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1 Corinthians chapter 13:  2:30

Read about Rahab the harlot and compare her to Helen of Troy
Joshua Chapter 2:  3:27
Joshua Chapter 6:  6:20
                        Joshua Total Time:  9:47

PDF File Worksheet — Hope or Tragedy?  You decide — Use this worksheet to compare/contrast Rahab the harlot and Helen of Troy
(Remember:  Rahab the Harlot is in the family tree of Jesus, so-to-speak)

Compare / contrast Jezebel and Helen of Troy
1 Kings Chapter 16:  4:54
1 Kings Chapter 17:  3:23
1 Kings Chapter 18:  7:37
1 Kings Chapter 19:  3:59
1 Kings Chapter 20:  7:25
1 Kings Chapter 21:  4:36
                        Total Bible Time: 44:11

PDF File Worksheet — Two Peas in a Pod ? — Use this worksheet to compare/contrast Jezebel and Helen of Troy

How does the Bible define love?

Movie:  Helen of Troy (part 2)
Arrows rain death.  Courageous soldiers clamber up stone walls.  Swords clang, men shout, fires rage.  Yet the waves of combatants storming Troy are turned back.  To defeat the undefeatable ultimately requires brains as much as brawn.  So the Greeks, feigning withdrawal, offer a gift of treachery:  a mammoth wooden horse that secretly houses their fighting men.  Homer's Illiad surges to the screen in Helen of Troy from the 50s heyday of big screen spectaculars.  This lavish epic captures some 30,000 people on screen at a then-huge cost of $6 million.  Stars include Sir Cedrick Hardwicke and Brigitte Bardot (Warner Brothers Pictures, color, 1955, 141 minutes)

Discussion:

1)  In the story of Helen of Troy, it would almost seem that the reader is lead to side with Helen and Paris who have committed adultery.  Yet, the wronged husband is made to appear to be evil.  Discuss this in light of the Biblical view of adultery and loyalty.

2)  What do you think Sarai, Esther, Ruth, Rebekah, and Rachel would say to Helen of Troy?

3)  What do you think Abraham, Ahasuerus (Esther's husband), Boaz, Isaac and Jacob would say to Menelaus and Paris?  Do you think they would deal with the character traits of loyalty, duty and honor?

4)  If you were sitting alone in the same room with Helen of Troy and knew you could have a huge impact on her decision, how would you attempt to influence her to remain loyal without being sanctimonious?  In like fashion, what would you say to Paris privately?

5)  Discuss how YOU would feel if you were in Menelaus' position?  Helen's position?  Paris' position?  How do you think Helen's parents would have thought and felt?  (Remember:  Thoughts have consequences, we act on what we think!)

6)  Some have called adultery a victimless crime.  Do you think this is so?  If not, who is impacted by adultery?

Challenge:

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is ...

(1)  To write a newspaper report for the Troy Daily Gazette writing an account of how a confused concept of beauty, loyalty and honor has had an impact not only on family and community, but two different countries — that ultimately has led to war.

(2)  Radio Panel — Sarai, Esther, Ruth, Rebekah, and Rachel have been invited to a panel discussion on Loyalty, Duty and Honor:  So What is It? on the Genesis Radio Hour.  The producer/director has recently gotten a hold of a breaking news report in the Troy Daily Gazette detailing difficulties of Helen, Menelaus, and Paris.  You have eight (8) minutes of broadcast time.  Moreover, you need to remember that you must have advertising to pay for the radio show.  Therefore, make sure you have some advertising spots!  (Hint:  See Session #3 Activity).  

In short, you must create a short 8 minute radio show where Sarai, Esther, Ruth, Rebekah, and Rachel discuss Loyalty, Duty and Honor:  So What is It? complete with advertisements.  If you have a large enough family, each person may take a role — otherwise you will need to either (a)  modify the show or (b) have family/friends take on more than one role.  Do you have a tape recorder around the house?  If so, you may want to record your creation and listen to it again 3, 6, and/or 9 months later.

Activities:

First we will repeat Monday's through Wednesday's activities,

Monday:
1)  Take a shower.
2)  We will use deodorant so we do not draw any unnecessary attention to ourselves like the hypocrites in the newer testament.
3)  Put on some becoming clean clothing.
4)  Look at your nails.  Are they clean from grime?
5)  We will brush our teeth to make them sparkle.
6)  We will brush our hair in a becoming manner.

Tuesday:
7)  Practice walking with a heavy book on your head.  Are you a little better at it today?
8)  Cheerfulness.  Are you smiling?  Try to say something cheerful that is sincere and legitimate to someone in your family.  Have you reduced your complaining and mumbling?
9)  Courteous.  Have you ceased making inappropriate noises at table?
10)  Review why facial cleansing important.

Wednesday:
11)  Review table manners and why they are important from a  Christian worldview
12)  Review proper dressing and why it is important from a  Christian worldview
13)  Review the necessity of proper facial cleansing.
14)  Thankfulness.  Have you remembered to sincerely and genuinely thanked someone in your family today?

Today, we will ...

1)  View clothing from various timeframes — ancient, middle ages, Reformation, colonial, 19th Century, and the present.  How are they alike/different?  What has remained consistent with the concept of being modest?

2)  Clothing and temperature.  How do you think weather has had an impact on clothing?  

Story #1
Even though I am from an old-fashioned family, my parents were grateful when it became acceptable to wear slacks when I was a young girl.  Why?  Simply because every winter I would have terrible colds which I would later learn was pneumonia.  It did not seem to matter much if I wore heavy leggings underneath my dresses or not.  However, as the fashion changed and it became acceptable to wear nice slacks to government school, there was a noticeable decrease in the amount of times I had pneumonia.  How can following fashions say at the risk of health be vainglorious?

       vainglorious = vain display or show; ostentation; pride; boastfulness

Story #2
When touring navy/merchant marine ships, it is more modest and appropriate to wear slacks as one is required to walk up and down stairs between decks. Conversely, it is immodest to wear dresses/skirts when touring a ship due to how the stairs are constructed.  How can following fashions risk modesty and be vainglorious?

Story #3
During colonial times, most husbands desired their wives and daughters to wear dresses that were tighter.  Why?  The cooking hazards were terrible.  Having a dress that flared out increased the chances of fire.  The numbers of kitchen colonial deaths of women due to dresses catching on fire was high.

3)  The priests of Baal in 1 Kings 18 would pierce themselves — So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them (1 Kings 18:28).  To be vainglorious is nothing new — evidences of body piercings and excessive ornamentation to draw attention to self and away from the Triune Lord has been occurring since ancient times.  How would being vainglorious detract from the whole concept of servanthood — which we have been commanded to do by Christ — with respect to self-mutilation, body piercings, and tattoos (to mention a few)?

Music & Art:

It is so easy to select one type of music and only listen to that type, but that would be like selecting to eat peanut butter sandwiches for the rest of one's life and not enjoying chicken, salad, strawberries, etc.  Attempt to expose yourself to a variety of music at least two to three times per week (if not everyday).  Helping others to feel at ease and encouraging them to talk about their likes/dislikes is essential to charm and beauty.  Art is similar.  Go to the library and check out books at least every other week that exposes you to various types of art.  Go to At the Movies and learn how Sister Wendy can explain various types of art to you on the Misc. page.

                               

Geography:

1)  Continue to compare / contrast the weather from Greece, Persia (Iraq) and Israel with your own for one week.  Do you think the weather from these countries had an impact on clothing? housing?

2)  See if you can locate Greece, Persia (Iraq) and Israel on a globe, map, and atlas faster than you have in the past.  Identify the capital of each country — Greece, Persia (Iraq), and Israel.  Do you think the terrain from these countries had an impact on clothing? housing?

3)  Make a meal from Greece, Persia (Iraq) and/or Israel for your family.  Do you think the weather and terrain from these countries had an impact on clothing? housing?  (okay, okay, so I like baklava!)

What does the Bible Say?
            Session #4 click here

A.  Women       Illustrated in Israel ... 1 Peter 3:3-5        Lack of modesty and enticement ... 2 Samuel 11:2-5

B.  Men       Lack of modesty condemned ... Genesis 9:21-27        Illustrated ... John 21:7        Manifested in conversation ... Mark 5:15

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