Description
Secondary Schools Assemblies Resource Book
HOW TO LIVE
MR LAZY
By Stuart Kerner
Suitable for Whole School
Aim
To reflect on the unhealthy and spiritually damaging characteristic of laziness.
Preparation and materials
Assembly
Taken from Secondary Schools Assemblies Resources Book edited by Stuart Kerner
Published by SPCK
HOW TO LIVE
MR LAZY
By Stuart Kerner
Suitable for Whole School
Aim
To reflect on the unhealthy and spiritually damaging characteristic of laziness.
Preparation and materials
- Prepare an OHP transparency/PowerPoint slide of a sloth. There is a good image on <//bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/ courses/fall99projects/sloth.htm>.
- You might also like to transfer the Bible quotes on to an OHP transparency (see point 3).
- Bible reading: Matthew 25.14–30.
Assembly
- Show the picture of the sloth and ask if anyone knows what type of animal it is. Whatever the responses, inform the audience that this is a Bradypus variegatus, otherwise known as a brown-throated three-toed sloth.
- Explain that the sloth is a slow-moving mammal that lives in trees in South America. Sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down from tree branches; they eat, sleep, mate, and give birth suspended in the trees. They hold on to tree branches with the strong, curved claws on each of their four feet. Sloths are nocturnal. They sleep all day and are more active at night.The sloth got its name from its slow movement. It is not lazy, just slow-moving; the sloth is the slowest mammal on earth.
- For Christians ‘sloth’ is one of the ‘seven deadly sins’, and refers to the sin of laziness and avoidance of work. The Bible has much to say on this matter, especially in the book of Proverbs: ...
Taken from Secondary Schools Assemblies Resources Book edited by Stuart Kerner
Published by SPCK
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