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Freedom and Failure

God's Plan for Happiness

About this Life Night

This Life Night begins with a cooking challenge for small groups that illustrates the importance of having rules and guidelines in order to find fulfillment. The imagery from this game transitions into the Proclaim, which addresses God’s plan for our happiness and morality. Teenagers are challenged to reflect on how well they follow this plan before breaking into small groups for a discussion. The Life Night closes with a period of journaling and reflection.

Goal of This Night

The goal of this Life Night is to introduce teenagers to God’s original plan for our happiness and fulfillment and challenge them to understand sin as contrary to that plan.

Catechism

YouCat

# 3
# 68 - 70
# 281 - 285

Scripture

Church Documents

gaudium-et-spes
deus-caritas-est

Key Concepts

  • God created us to be in a relationship with him.We find happiness and fulfillment when we choose to love and serve God.
  • Sin is any action that hurts, weakens, or destroys our relationship with God. It is not part of God’s plan for our happiness and limits or destroys our freedom by making us slaves to sin.
  • True freedom is following God’s plan for our happiness and rejecting the slavery of sin.

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