RCCG YAYA Sunday School Teacher Manual 11 February 2024 Lesson 24

This is RCCG YAYA Sunday School Teacher Manual 11 February 2024 Lesson 24. Today’s topic is COHABITATION.

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RCCG YAYA SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER MANUAL 11 FEBRUARY 2024 (LESSON 24)

TOPIC: COHABITATION

Note: Check RCCG SUNDAY SCHOOL HYMN LYRICS

OPENING PRAYER:

Father, please help me to desist from any practice that can destroy my life and future.

TODAY’S LESSON

Father, please help me to desist from any practice that can destroy my life and future.

BIBLE PASSAGE: 1 Corinthians 7:1-2

¹ Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

²Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

MEMORY VERSE: Revelation 22.15 (NKJV)

But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

INTRODUCTION

Cohabitation is a relationship that exists between people who live together and have sexual relationships without being legally married to each other.

Currently, cohabitation seems to be gaining ground among young people. This is not the right concept when put on the scale of God’s standard.

We shall look at some things that cohabiting will not do and the way out.

TEACHER’S DIARY

LESSON AIM:

To teach students to desist from the practice of cohabitation.

TEACHING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:

a. Understand what cohabitation entails.

b. Identify the reasons and effects of cohabitation.

c. Embrace the way out of the act of cohabitation.

TEXT REVIEW: 1 Corinthians 7:1-2

The apostle Paul admonishes the Corinthian (and all) Christians to avoid fornication by:

i. Not ………………………………….. v1.

ii. Getting ………………………………… v2.

TEACHING METHOD:

The Discussion Method.

OUTLINES:

REASONS AND EFFECTS
THE WAY OUT

1. REASONS AND EFFECTS

A. Teacher should allow the class discuss some of the reasons alluded for the practice of cohabitation and present the following unfounded excuses:

i. To solve their housing problems.

ii. For emotional attachment.

iii. To test for compatibility.

iv. To solve economic problems, etc.

B. The effects of cohabitation should also be discussed with the teacher’s guide:

i. Cohabiting may appear to have solved housing and economic problems but underneath is untold stories of painful experiences (Proverbs 9:17-18).

ii. Cohabiting will not guarantee a perfect relationship (Psalm 127:1).

i. It is not a surety or an assurance that one will really know the behaviour of the other person fully because the heart is deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9).

ii. It will not change the negative habits of an individual.

iii. It subjugates rather than provides freedom as one is at the whims and caprices of the cohabitant.

iv. The unholy act of fornication will not yield a holy sexual relationship (1 Corinthians 6:18; 7:2; 10:8).

v. It will not rule out disappointments or skirmishes between the two partners.

vi. The security or sustenance of the relationship is not guaranteed

vii. It may result in unplanned pregnancy, abortion, or unwanted babies.

viii. It can fuel low self-esteem.

CLASS ACTIVITY 1:

Students should share their experience’ (if any) or of people they know are in the act of cohabiting.

2. THE WAY OUT

Teacher should allow the class suggest some likely ways of avoiding the practice of cohabitating and then share the following facts:

i. There are many good ways to deal with economic and relationship issues instead of cohabiting (Proverbs 3:5-6).

ii. Do the right thing by getting into a pure and proper courtship with marriage in view (1 Corinthians 7:1-2).

iii. Stop trial and error relationship and get married legally if you know you are mature for marriage (1 Corinthians 7:9).

iv. Make up your mind to honour God with your body because it is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:19).

v. Avoid sex before marriage (Hebrews 13:4).

vi. Patience is the rule of the game (Corinthians 13:4).

vii. Get the foundation right so you can build a good and fruitful home on the right footing (Psalm 11:3).

viii. Secure a beautiful and stable future for your children (Galatians 6:7).

CLASS ACTIVITY 2:

Students should discuss other ways of avoiding cohabitation.

CONCLUSION: RCCG YAYA Sunday School Teacher Manual 11 February 2024

Cohabiting is a product of disobedience and dishonour. Do the right thing.

EVALUATION:

Mention two things cohabiting will not achieve.

CLOSING PRAYER:

Father, deliver me and anyone else that is trapped in the act of cohabiting.

ASSIGNMENT: RCCG YAYA Sunday School Teacher Manual 11 February 2024

Mention five (5) disadvantages of cohabiting (2×5=10 marks).

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