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It tells you what lesson you have open." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Before prayer requests: ask the room, \"Did anybody open the cards this week?\" That answer decides whether the student deck keeps getting built." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": false, "body": [ "1 Corinthians 10:23-24, 25-30, 31-33", "A man who owns nothing can lay anything down.", "Three readers. ESV. No Greek this week. Landing at 10:41." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Do not show this card in class. It tells you what lesson you have open.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "Before prayer requests: ask the room, \"Did anybody open the cards this week?\" That answer decides whether the student deck keeps getting built.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-OPEN-01", "seq": 2, "type": "opening", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 180, "title": "The Wrong Question", "teacher": { "body": [ "Folks, every single semester at West Georgia, somebody raises a hand and asks me the same question. And it is always the same three words.", "Is that legal?", "Sometimes they mean a tax move. Sometimes they mean a trade. Sometimes what they really mean is, how close to the line can I stand without falling off it.", "And I have to tell them the same thing every time. That is the wrong question. It is not a bad question. It is just a small one. Legal is the floor of the building. You are asking me about the floor and I am trying to show you the roof.", "Now. This morning Paul is standing in front of a church full of people asking him that exact question. And they thought they already had his answer." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "Do not announce the passage. Do not open a Bible yet." }, { "after": 0, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 2, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 3, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": "end", "text": "CHECKPOINT ONE TRIM: if behind, cut the tax move and the trade from line 3." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Folks, every single semester at West Georgia, somebody raises a hand and asks me the same question. And it is always the same three words.", "Is that legal?", "Sometimes they mean a tax move. Sometimes they mean a trade. Sometimes what they really mean is, how close to the line can I stand without falling off it.", "And I have to tell them the same thing every time. That is the wrong question. It is not a bad question. It is just a small one. Legal is the floor of the building. You are asking me about the floor and I am trying to show you the roof.", "Now. This morning Paul is standing in front of a church full of people asking him that exact question. And they thought they already had his answer." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "What is the wrong question you have been asking?" }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Do not announce the passage. Do not open a Bible yet.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 0 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 2 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 3 }, { "text": "CHECKPOINT ONE TRIM: if behind, cut the tax move and the trade from line 3.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-OPEN-02", "seq": 3, "type": "callback", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 45, "title": "The Callback: What They Remembered", "teacher": { "body": [ "Last Sunday one sentence stuck to this room more than anything else I said. A man who owns nothing cannot be robbed.", "Here is where that goes. If nothing is yours, then nobody can take it from you. And here is the part we did not get to.", "A man who owns nothing can lay anything down." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "PAUSE. Point at the board." }, { "after": "end", "text": "This line is theirs, not ours. Say so if it feels right." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Last Sunday one sentence stuck to this room more than anything else I said. A man who owns nothing cannot be robbed.", "Here is where that goes. If nothing is yours, then nobody can take it from you. And here is the part we did not get to.", "A man who owns nothing can lay anything down." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PAUSE. Point at the board.", "after": 1 }, { "text": "This line is theirs, not ours. Say so if it feels right.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-READ-01", "seq": 4, "type": "scripture_reading", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 45, "title": "Reader One: 1 Corinthians 10:23-24", "teacher": { "body": [], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "Let the reader finish." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": { "reference": "1 Corinthians 10:23-24 (ESV)", "translation": "ESV", "text": "“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." }, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [], "scripture": { "reference": "1 Corinthians 10:23-24 (ESV)", "translation": "ESV", "text": "“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." }, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Let the reader finish.", "after": "start" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-TEACH-01", "seq": 5, "type": "teaching", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 180, "title": "Lawful Is the Floor", "teacher": { "body": [ "Paul opens with a slogan. All things are lawful.", "Now here is something worth knowing. Paul already used that line back in chapter 6. Twice. And most people who study this closely think Paul did not make that saying up. Probably it was their line, not his. It was going around Corinth, and Paul keeps picking it up and handing it back to them with something attached.", "All things are lawful. Fine. But not all things build up.", "Watch what he just did. He did not answer the question they asked. He changed the measuring stick.", "They were measuring by what is allowed. He measures by what builds somebody.", "Now do not miss this, because it matters. Paul is not asking you to lay down what God commanded. Obedience is not yours to surrender. He is talking about freedoms you really do have.", "Lawful is a floor. Helpful is a ceiling. And most of us live our whole lives on the floor and call it freedom.", "And then verse 24 turns the whole thing outward. Let nobody seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.", "That is the sentence the rest of the morning hangs on. Not what am I allowed to do. Who is standing next to me while I do it." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "Say the word probably out loud." }, { "after": 2, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 4, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 5, "text": "THE FENCE. Say this before the board sentence does any more work. Do not skip it." }, { "after": 6, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": "end", "text": "CHECKPOINT ONE TRIM: if behind, compress line 2 to 'this was their line, not his.'" } ], "labels": [ { "claim": "'All things are lawful' appears in 6:12 and again in 10:23", "label": "TEXT" }, { "claim": "It is a Corinthian slogan Paul quotes back at them", "label": "PROBABLE" }, { "claim": "They were using it to end arguments", "label": "INFERENCE" } ], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": [ { "ref": "1 Corinthians 6:12 (ESV)", "text": "“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." } ], "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Paul opens with a slogan. All things are lawful.", "Now here is something worth knowing. Paul already used that line back in chapter 6. Twice. And most people who study this closely think Paul did not make that saying up. Probably it was their line, not his. It was going around Corinth, and Paul keeps picking it up and handing it back to them with something attached.", "All things are lawful. Fine. But not all things build up.", "Watch what he just did. He did not answer the question they asked. He changed the measuring stick.", "They were measuring by what is allowed. He measures by what builds somebody.", "Now do not miss this, because it matters. Paul is not asking you to lay down what God commanded. Obedience is not yours to surrender. He is talking about freedoms you really do have.", "Lawful is a floor. Helpful is a ceiling. And most of us live our whole lives on the floor and call it freedom.", "And then verse 24 turns the whole thing outward. Let nobody seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.", "That is the sentence the rest of the morning hangs on. Not what am I allowed to do. Who is standing next to me while I do it." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Say the word probably out loud.", "after": 1 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 2 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 4 }, { "text": "THE FENCE. Say this before the board sentence does any more work. Do not skip it.", "after": 5 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 6 }, { "text": "CHECKPOINT ONE TRIM: if behind, compress line 2 to 'this was their line, not his.'", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-MON-01", "seq": 6, "type": "monday_test", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 45, "title": "Monday Test One", "teacher": { "body": [ "Monday morning, you are going to be within your rights about something.", "You will be within your rights and somebody will still be hurt by it. And you will have a choice between winning that and keeping that person.", "You can win the argument and lose the person.", "A man who owns nothing can lay anything down." ], "cues": [ { "after": 2, "text": "PAUSE." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Monday morning, you are going to be within your rights about something.", "You will be within your rights and somebody will still be hurt by it. And you will have a choice between winning that and keeping that person.", "You can win the argument and lose the person.", "A man who owns nothing can lay anything down." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "Where are you winning an argument and losing a person?" }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 2 } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-DISC-01", "seq": 7, "type": "discussion", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 120, "title": "The Bridge Question", "teacher": { "body": [ "Let me ask you a question that gets right at what Paul is doing here.", "Which of your freedoms is most likely to trip up somebody else?" ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "Two minutes. Not three. This slot was bought with the Psalm 24 note." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Two answers. Thank them and move. The better discussion is coming in Section 3." }, { "after": "end", "text": "This question is ours. Never say the book asks it. If LifeWay's page arrives and theirs is better, it swaps in here." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Let me ask you a question that gets right at what Paul is doing here.", "Which of your freedoms is most likely to trip up somebody else?" ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "Which of your freedoms is most likely to trip up somebody else?" }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Two minutes. Not three. This slot was bought with the Psalm 24 note.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "Two answers. Thank them and move. The better discussion is coming in Section 3.", "after": "end" }, { "text": "This question is ours. Never say the book asks it. If LifeWay's page arrives and theirs is better, it swaps in here.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-READ-02", "seq": 8, "type": "scripture_reading", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 60, "title": "Reader Two: 1 Corinthians 10:25-30", "teacher": { "body": [], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "CHECKPOINT ONE. If it is past 10:26, take both Section 1 trims." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": { "reference": "1 Corinthians 10:25-30 (ESV)", "translation": "ESV", "text": "Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience? If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." }, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [], "scripture": { "reference": "1 Corinthians 10:25-30 (ESV)", "translation": "ESV", "text": "Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience? If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." }, "note_prompt": null }, "checkpoint": "CHECKPOINT ONE. Reader Two should be reading by 10:26.", "_cues": [ { "text": "CHECKPOINT ONE. If it is past 10:26, take both Section 1 trims.", "after": "start" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-SCHL-01", "seq": 9, "type": "scholarship", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 110, "title": "The Meat Market", "teacher": { "body": [ "To understand this passage you have to know one thing about that city, and it is not in your book.", "In a Roman city like Corinth, the temple and the butcher counter were tied together.", "When an animal was sacrificed, the god did not eat it. The priests took their portion, the worshiper took his, and some of what was left could make its way into the public market.", "So a woman walking to the butcher on a Tuesday morning in Corinth was not making a religious decision. She was buying supper. But some of the meat on that counter had already been across an altar, and she had no way to know which.", "It was not exotic. It was groceries." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "PAUSE. Let that sit." }, { "after": 3, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Do not quantify how much meat. The evidence will not carry it." } ], "labels": [ { "claim": "Paul tells them to buy what is sold in the meat market and not interrogate it", "label": "TEXT" }, { "claim": "Some market meat in a city like Corinth had passed through a temple", "label": "PROBABLE" }, { "claim": "This is why the question was tearing the church up. It was groceries.", "label": "INFERENCE" } ], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "To understand this passage you have to know one thing about that city, and it is not in your book.", "In a Roman city like Corinth, the temple and the butcher counter were tied together.", "When an animal was sacrificed, the god did not eat it. The priests took their portion, the worshiper took his, and some of what was left could make its way into the public market.", "So a woman walking to the butcher on a Tuesday morning in Corinth was not making a religious decision. She was buying supper. But some of the meat on that counter had already been across an altar, and she had no way to know which.", "It was not exotic. It was groceries." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PAUSE. Let that sit.", "after": 1 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 3 }, { "text": "Do not quantify how much meat. The evidence will not carry it.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-TEACH-02", "seq": 10, "type": "teaching", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 60, "title": "The Earth Is the Lord's", "teacher": { "body": [ "Here is where Paul goes, and it is not where you would guess.", "He says buy it. Eat it. Do not stand there asking questions about where it came from.", "Then he gives the reason, and he reaches for the Psalms to do it. The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.", "That is the argument. There is no such thing as somebody else's food. It all came from God's hand before it ever got near anybody's altar." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "PAUSE." } ], "labels": [ { "claim": "Verse 26 quotes Psalm 24:1 word for word", "label": "TEXT" } ], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": [ { "ref": "Psalm 24:1 (ESV)", "text": "The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." } ], "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Here is where Paul goes, and it is not where you would guess.", "He says buy it. Eat it. Do not stand there asking questions about where it came from.", "Then he gives the reason, and he reaches for the Psalms to do it. The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.", "That is the argument. There is no such thing as somebody else's food. It all came from God's hand before it ever got near anybody's altar." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 1 } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-DIG-01", "seq": 11, "type": "scholarship", "priority": "dig_deeper", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 30, "title": "Dig Deeper: The Psalm 24 Quotation", "teacher": { "body": [ "That line is Psalm 24:1, quoted word for word." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "NOT TAUGHT THIS WEEK. It was spent to buy the Bridge Question. Here for the archive and for a retreat setting." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": false, "body": [ "That line is Psalm 24:1, quoted word for word." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "NOT TAUGHT THIS WEEK. It was spent to buy the Bridge Question. Here for the archive and for a retreat setting.", "after": "start" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-ILL-01", "seq": 12, "type": "illustration", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 75, "title": "The Dinner Invitation", "teacher": { "body": [ "Then verse 27. Somebody who is not a believer invites you over. Paul says go. Eat whatever is put in front of you.", "We even have surviving Egyptian dinner invitations to a god's table, from later than Paul, and they show how close religion and supper lived to each other in that world.", "Now do not confuse that with what Paul already forbade earlier in this same chapter. If the invitation itself is worship at an idol's table, Paul has already said no, and he said it hard. Verse 27 is an ordinary meal in an ordinary house." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "Say PROBABLE out loud. Egyptian, and later than Paul." }, { "after": 2, "text": "THE DISTINCTION. Never cut this. Without it the artifact teaches the wrong thing." } ], "labels": [ { "claim": "Ancient invitations to dine at a god's table survive on papyrus", "label": "TEXT, but Egyptian and later than Paul" }, { "claim": "Corinth's invitations worked the same way", "label": "PROBABLE. Say so." } ], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": [ { "ref": "1 Corinthians 10:21 (ESV)", "text": "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." } ], "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Then verse 27. Somebody who is not a believer invites you over. Paul says go. Eat whatever is put in front of you.", "We even have surviving Egyptian dinner invitations to a god's table, from later than Paul, and they show how close religion and supper lived to each other in that world.", "Now do not confuse that with what Paul already forbade earlier in this same chapter. If the invitation itself is worship at an idol's table, Paul has already said no, and he said it hard. Verse 27 is an ordinary meal in an ordinary house." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Say PROBABLE out loud. Egyptian, and later than Paul.", "after": 1 }, { "text": "THE DISTINCTION. Never cut this. Without it the artifact teaches the wrong thing.", "after": 2 } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-DIG-02", "seq": 13, "type": "scholarship", "priority": "dig_deeper", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 60, "title": "Dig Deeper: The Papyrus Invitations in Full", "teacher": { "body": [ "Little slips of papyrus. Somebody invites you to come and dine at the table of a god, at a certain house, on a certain day, at the ninth hour.", "They are from Egypt, and they are from a hundred years or so after Paul, so I will not tell you these are Corinthian. But the world worked the same way. An invitation to supper was often an invitation to somebody's god." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "NOT TAUGHT THIS WEEK. The short version in the previous card is the spoken one. Here for the archive and for a retreat setting." } ], "labels": [ { "claim": "Ancient invitations to dine at a god's table survive on papyrus", "label": "TEXT, but Egyptian and later than Paul" } ], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": false, "body": [], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "NOT TAUGHT THIS WEEK. The short version in the previous card is the spoken one. Here for the archive and for a retreat setting.", "after": "start" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-MYTH-01", "seq": 14, "type": "myth_bust", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 140, "title": "The Exception and the Myth-Busting Minute", "teacher": { "body": [ "And Paul allows exactly one thing to change the answer. Somebody at that table leans over and says, you should know, this was offered in sacrifice.", "Then do not eat it. And here is the reason, and it is the whole passage in one line. Not for your sake. For his.", "Nothing changed about the meat. Something changed about the man sitting next to you.", "Now a lot of folks think the Bible flatly forbids eating anything that had been offered to an idol. And you can find that. It is in Acts 15.", "But look at what Paul actually tells this church. Buy it. Eat it. Do not ask.", "Paul is making a distinction, and it is worth writing down.", "The meat itself is not contaminated. But the setting matters. Worship matters. And the person beside you matters.", "At an idol's table, no. At the butcher counter, eat. At somebody's house, eat. But the minute your eating starts saying something about worship to the person sitting beside you, lay the right down." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 2, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 6, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Do not harmonize Acts 15 from the front. How they fit is disputed and saying so costs you nothing." } ], "labels": [ { "claim": "Paul permits eating, with one exception, in verses 25 through 29", "label": "TEXT" }, { "claim": "Acts 15 addresses food offered to idols", "label": "TEXT. How it fits with this passage is disputed." } ], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": [ { "ref": "Acts 15:29 (ESV)", "text": "that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." } ], "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "And Paul allows exactly one thing to change the answer. Somebody at that table leans over and says, you should know, this was offered in sacrifice.", "Then do not eat it. And here is the reason, and it is the whole passage in one line. Not for your sake. For his.", "Nothing changed about the meat. Something changed about the man sitting next to you.", "Now a lot of folks think the Bible flatly forbids eating anything that had been offered to an idol. And you can find that. It is in Acts 15.", "But look at what Paul actually tells this church. Buy it. Eat it. Do not ask.", "Paul is making a distinction, and it is worth writing down.", "The meat itself is not contaminated. But the setting matters. Worship matters. And the person beside you matters.", "At an idol's table, no. At the butcher counter, eat. At somebody's house, eat. But the minute your eating starts saying something about worship to the person sitting beside you, lay the right down." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "Who is the person beside you?" }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 1 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 2 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 6 }, { "text": "Do not harmonize Acts 15 from the front. How they fit is disputed and saying so costs you nothing.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-MON-02", "seq": 15, "type": "monday_test", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 45, "title": "Monday Test Two", "teacher": { "body": [ "Somebody is watching you Monday and you do not know who it is.", "Not to catch you. Just watching, because that is what people do with anybody who says they follow Jesus.", "Nobody was ever argued into the kingdom by a man defending his rights." ], "cues": [], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Somebody is watching you Monday and you do not know who it is.", "Not to catch you. Just watching, because that is what people do with anybody who says they follow Jesus.", "Nobody was ever argued into the kingdom by a man defending his rights." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "Who is watching you this week?" }, "_cues": [] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-READ-03", "seq": 16, "type": "scripture_reading", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 45, "title": "Reader Three: 1 Corinthians 10:31-33", "teacher": { "body": [], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "CHECKPOINT TWO. If it is past 10:34, compress the papyrus block and take three discussion answers instead of four." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": { "reference": "1 Corinthians 10:31-33 (ESV)", "translation": "ESV", "text": "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." }, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [], "scripture": { "reference": "1 Corinthians 10:31-33 (ESV)", "translation": "ESV", "text": "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.", "notice": "Scripture quotations are from the ESV Bible, copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." }, "note_prompt": null }, "checkpoint": "CHECKPOINT TWO. Reader Three should be reading by 10:34.", "_cues": [ { "text": "CHECKPOINT TWO. If it is past 10:34, compress the papyrus block and take three discussion answers instead of four.", "after": "start" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-TEACH-04", "seq": 17, "type": "teaching", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 90, "title": "Supper Counts", "teacher": { "body": [ "Verse 31 is on coffee cups. Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.", "And because it is on coffee cups we have quit hearing it.", "Look at what it is sitting on top of. Two and a half chapters about meat, and markets, and dinner parties, and whether you can eat a pork chop at your neighbor's house.", "Glory to God is not a bigger category than supper. It includes supper. Paul put that sentence right there on purpose." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "PAUSE." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Verse 31 is on coffee cups. Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.", "And because it is on coffee cups we have quit hearing it.", "Look at what it is sitting on top of. Two and a half chapters about meat, and markets, and dinner parties, and whether you can eat a pork chop at your neighbor's house.", "Glory to God is not a bigger category than supper. It includes supper. Paul put that sentence right there on purpose." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 1 } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-TEACH-05", "seq": 18, "type": "teaching", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 75, "title": "Give No Offense", "teacher": { "body": [ "Then he says give no offense to Jews, or Greeks, or the church of God. Those are the three groups in that town. He just named everybody.", "And then Paul says the most Paul thing in the letter. I try to please everybody in everything I do. I am not seeking my own advantage.", "Now be careful. He is not talking about being a people pleaser. He tells us why in the last five words. That they may be saved.", "He is not trying to be liked. He is trying to get out of the way." ], "cues": [ { "after": 1, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 2, "text": "This guardrail matters as much as the fence in Section 1." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Then he says give no offense to Jews, or Greeks, or the church of God. Those are the three groups in that town. He just named everybody.", "And then Paul says the most Paul thing in the letter. I try to please everybody in everything I do. I am not seeking my own advantage.", "Now be careful. He is not talking about being a people pleaser. He tells us why in the last five words. That they may be saved.", "He is not trying to be liked. He is trying to get out of the way." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 1 }, { "text": "This guardrail matters as much as the fence in Section 1.", "after": 2 } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-DISC-02", "seq": 19, "type": "discussion", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 240, "title": "The One Discussion Question", "teacher": { "body": [ "Here is the question, and I will answer it first so you know I am not asking you for something I will not do.", "Name one thing you have every right to do that you have decided not to do, because of somebody else." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "YOU GO FIRST. Every time. Not only if it gets quiet. Last Sunday the room answered fast and general because nobody heard what a real answer sounds like." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Specific, small, slightly costly. Not heroic. Then three or four answers." }, { "after": "end", "text": "CHECKPOINT TWO TRIM: three answers instead of four." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Here is the question, and I will answer it first so you know I am not asking you for something I will not do.", "Name one thing you have every right to do that you have decided not to do, because of somebody else." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "One right you have decided not to use." }, "_cues": [ { "text": "YOU GO FIRST. Every time. Not only if it gets quiet. Last Sunday the room answered fast and general because nobody heard what a real answer sounds like.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "Specific, small, slightly costly. Not heroic. Then three or four answers.", "after": "end" }, { "text": "CHECKPOINT TWO TRIM: three answers instead of four.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-MON-03", "seq": 20, "type": "monday_test", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 40, "title": "Monday Test Three", "teacher": { "body": [ "Every one of those is a right somebody laid down and nobody applauded.", "That is most of the Christian life, honestly. Small things nobody sees you not do." ], "cues": [], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Every one of those is a right somebody laid down and nobody applauded.", "That is most of the Christian life, honestly. Small things nobody sees you not do." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-CLOSE-01", "seq": 21, "type": "close", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 110, "title": "The Close", "teacher": { "body": [ "Look at the board one more time. A man who owns nothing can lay anything down.", "Last week Paul told a room of nobodies that the whole world belonged to them. This week he tells the same people to hand a piece of it back for the sake of the man across the table.", "That is not a contradiction. That is the only order it can go in. You cannot lay down something you are still clutching.", "And here is why it holds. Jesus had every right there is. Every one. And He did not stand on a single one of them.", "Freedom you cannot put down is not freedom. It owns you." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "THE LANDING STARTS HERE AT 10:41 NO MATTER WHAT." }, { "after": 0, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": 2, "text": "PAUSE." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Third and final use of the recurring line. Do not force a fourth." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Look at the board one more time. A man who owns nothing can lay anything down.", "Last week Paul told a room of nobodies that the whole world belonged to them. This week he tells the same people to hand a piece of it back for the sake of the man across the table.", "That is not a contradiction. That is the only order it can go in. You cannot lay down something you are still clutching.", "And here is why it holds. Jesus had every right there is. Every one. And He did not stand on a single one of them.", "Freedom you cannot put down is not freedom. It owns you." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "THE LANDING STARTS HERE AT 10:41 NO MATTER WHAT.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 0 }, { "text": "PAUSE.", "after": 2 }, { "text": "Third and final use of the recurring line. Do not force a fourth.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-LLL-01", "seq": 22, "type": "close", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 15, "title": "Learn. Love. Live.", "teacher": { "body": [ "Before we go, three things.", "What did we learn from God's Word this morning?", "How did it help us love Jesus a little more?", "And what are we going to live on Monday?" ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "Twelve seconds. Heads still up." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Stop. Do not explain it. Do not add a fourth. Same words every week." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Before we go, three things.", "What did we learn from God's Word this morning?", "How did it help us love Jesus a little more?", "And what are we going to live on Monday?" ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Twelve seconds. Heads still up.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "Stop. Do not explain it. Do not add a fourth. Same words every week.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-DOOR-01", "seq": 23, "type": "doorway", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 20, "title": "The Doorway Note", "teacher": { "body": [ "The cards from this morning are on your phone. Pull it up right now and tap Add to Home Screen so it sits there like an app.", "Do not read it now. Read it Wednesday." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "Heads still up. Phone in your hand. Do this BEFORE the quiet moment." }, { "after": "end", "text": "THE ASK CHANGED. Installing is private and takes three seconds. Reading in class is public and competes with you." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": false, "body": [ "The cards from this morning are on your phone. Pull it up right now and tap Add to Home Screen so it sits there like an app.", "Do not read it now. Read it Wednesday." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Heads still up. Phone in your hand. Do this BEFORE the quiet moment.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "THE ASK CHANGED. Installing is private and takes three seconds. Reading in class is public and competes with you.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-QUIET-01", "seq": 24, "type": "quiet_moment", "priority": "core", "protected": true, "duration_sec": 60, "title": "The Quiet Moment", "teacher": { "body": [ "Close your eyes.", "Think about one person this week who is watching you. A child, a coworker, somebody at that table.", "Now think of one right you could lay down for them." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "PROTECTED. Heads stay bowed from here through the prayer." }, { "after": 1, "text": "SILENCE. Count to ten. Do not fill it." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Close your eyes.", "Think about one person this week who is watching you. A child, a coworker, somebody at that table.", "Now think of one right you could lay down for them." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "Who is watching, and what could you lay down?" }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PROTECTED. Heads stay bowed from here through the prayer.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "SILENCE. Count to ten. Do not fill it.", "after": 1 } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-OBEY-01", "seq": 25, "type": "obedience", "priority": "core", "protected": true, "duration_sec": 40, "title": "The One Act of Obedience", "teacher": { "body": [ "One thing. This week, lay it down. One right, for one person.", "Do not announce it. Do not tell them you did it. That is the whole point." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "PROTECTED." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "One thing. This week, lay it down. One right, for one person.", "Do not announce it. Do not tell them you did it. That is the whole point." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": "What are you laying down, and for whom?" }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PROTECTED.", "after": "start" } ] }, { "id": "LL-1COR10-PRAY-01", "seq": 26, "type": "close", "priority": "core", "protected": true, "duration_sec": 40, "title": "The Prayer", "teacher": { "body": [ "Father, everything we have is Yours and none of it is ours to defend. Give us the freedom to put things down for the people You have put in front of us. Let them see Your Son and not our rights. Amen.", "There's a chair. Soli Deo Gloria." ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "PROTECTED. Their heads are already bowed. Do not ask them to bow again." }, { "after": "end", "text": "This is the only prayer. There is no second bow." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": true, "body": [ "Father, everything we have is Yours and none of it is ours to defend. Give us the freedom to put things down for the people You have put in front of us. Let them see Your Son and not our rights. Amen.", "There's a chair. Soli Deo Gloria." ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "PROTECTED. Their heads are already bowed. Do not ask them to bow again.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "This is the only prayer. There is no second bow.", "after": "end" } ] }, { "id": "LL-CAP-02", "seq": 27, "type": "capture", "priority": "core", "protected": false, "duration_sec": 60, "title": "End Lesson", "teacher": { "body": [ "Where did they laugh?", "Where did they lean in?", "Where did they seem confused?", "What did the discussion question produce?", "What did people say in the hallway?", "What surprised me?", "What will I change?", "Did anybody say the three words back to you, or ask about them?", "How long did Section 2 actually run?" ], "cues": [ { "after": "start", "text": "Before you leave the room. Not after lunch." }, { "after": "end", "text": "Two prompts added this week. The Section 2 number decides whether the manuscript reopens." } ], "labels": [], "scripture": null, "cross_refs": null, "image": null, "pronunciation": null }, "student": { "include": false, "body": [ "Where did they laugh?", "Where did they lean in?", "Where did they seem confused?", "What did the discussion question produce?", "What did people say in the hallway?", "What surprised me?", "What will I change?", "Did anybody say the three words back to you, or ask about them?", "How long did Section 2 actually run?" ], "scripture": null, "note_prompt": null }, "_cues": [ { "text": "Before you leave the room. Not after lunch.", "after": "start" }, { "text": "Two prompts added this week. The Section 2 number decides whether the manuscript reopens.", "after": "end" } ] } ], "visual_rule": { "shorthand": "History helps them understand it. Modern life helps them live it.", "principle": "Historical visuals explain the passage. Present-day visuals apply it. The job of the image decides the form, not the house style and not the builder's preference.", "by_surface": { "teacher_deck": "May use historically grounded reconstructions, artifacts, or simple teaching graphics. Test: does this help explain the passage?", "student_deck": "Usually present-day lived-moment illustrations. Test: does this help somebody see where this truth meets real life this week?", "facebook": "Usually present-day, unless the historical object or setting is itself the hook. Test: would this make a stranger think this might matter to me?", "lemon_drop": "The right home for history-heavy visuals. Test: does this deepen understanding without burdening the Sunday room?" }, "accuracy": [ "Never call generated imagery a photograph, anywhere, including alt text and captions.", "Never imply an image shows Bobby's actual farm, classroom, church, family, or history.", "Historical visuals must not overstate uncertain details or smuggle in spectacle.", "No visual may make a PROBABLE or INFERENCE claim look settled.", "Honest labels only: illustration, illustrative scene, historical reconstruction, present-day application image." ], "house_style": { "palette": [ "warm gold", "ember", "cream", "charcoal", "wood", "stone", "earth" ], "avoid": [ "cool blue dominance", "harsh neon", "slick corporate styling", "sterile church graphics", "unearned cinematic intensity" ], "tone": [ "warm", "ordinary", "thoughtful", "hopeful", "human", "invitational, not salesy" ], "text_in_image": "None unless explicitly instructed. Type is set in the layout." }, "amendment_period_detail": { "rule": "Every historical brief must name the period explicitly and list the anachronisms most likely to appear.", "why": "A first-century ship reconstruction came back with a nineteenth-century hurricane lantern in it, on the one card whose application was labeled INFERENCE. Naming the period is not enough. Name what must not appear.", "standing": "Look at the returned image. Do not trust the brief to have been followed." }, "amendment_sensitive_subjects": { "rule": "When a passage's historical setting involves violence, sacrifice, or anything that could read as graphic, the brief carries explicit hard limits, and student and public surfaces get the present-day treatment instead.", "why": "The market scene needed no blood, no carcasses, no slaughter, no altar spelled out, because a generator reaches for drama and the result lands on a church page where strangers see it first." }, "decision_order": [ "What is the job of this image?", "Which form serves that job?", "Which version gets the class to Monday more clearly?", "If unclear, prefer present-day for anything student-facing or promotional." ], "approved_by": "Bobby", "date": "2026-08-15" } }