CAMPION COLLEGE

CHRISTIAN LIVING

Making Moral Choices

Fourth Form Session 1
Moral Choice involve Making
Right Choices
Which of the following actions do you view to
be (a) wrong, (b) right, (c) unsure
• Getting involved in a voluntary organization
a. Helping an old person cross the road.
b.Pressuring a friend to drink alcohol and smoke
c. Spreading rumours about someone you don’t like
d.Buying expensive food and wasting some of it while there are
people in the world dying of starvation
e.Stealing bars of chocolate from the tuck shop just for the fun of
it
Which of the following actions do you view to
be (a) wrong, (b) right, (c) unsure
a. Buying expensive food and wasting some of it while there
are people in the world dying of starvation
b.Stealing bars of chocolate from the tuck shop just for the
fun of it
c. Telling racist jokes
d.Drawing graffiti on your desk or someone’s wall
e.Driving a car under the influence of alcohol
Which of the following actions do you view to
be (a) wrong, (b) right, (c) unsure
a. Bullying a new student
b.Visiting a neighbour who lives alone
c. Giving some one in need something that does not belong to
you
d.Telling lies on someone who has been cyber bullying your
friend
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Making Moral Choices

Fourth Form Session 2
Discuss the benefits of a traffic light system?
What happens when there is a power cut?

• Give specific examples :

• The traffic lights at the intersection of Hope road and Lady Musgrave or half
way Tree.
• What happens when there is a power cut?
 Traffic Lights as an Analogy for the
Human Conscience
• Use the traffic light system as an analogy for
how God’s Law works to guide and protect
people (example Ten Commandments)
• Extend this analogy to the human conscience
as it guides the individual and protects us from
harming ourselves and each other.
 Traffic Lights as an Analogy for the
Human Conscience
• There are some actions that wrong and our
conscience warns us to stop [Red Light]
• Students state five actions that are clearly
wrong
• There are many actions that wrong and our
conscience tells us its ok [Green Light]
• Students state five actions that are clearly
good to do!
 Traffic Lights as a Metaphor for the
Human Conscience
• There are a few actions that our consciences will warn
us that it is a dangerous path to take even as the
danger is not immediately clear.

• The amber light indicates we are to be extremely

cautious and prepare to stop what we are doing
• Introduce concept of the slippery slope

• Students should identify five situations that can be

harmful but not clearly wrong [Drinking alcohol after
you have passed the age of 18 years.]
Making Moral Decisions
• Introduce the concepts of Human Intellect,
• Soul,
• Conscience and
• Free Will in making moral choices..
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CHRISTIAN LIVING

Making Moral Choices

Fourth Form Session 3
 Sources of Christian Morality
• Identify the main sources of Christian Morality – (Scriptures, Tradition
and Magisterium).

• Identify where the Ten Commandments are found in the Bible

• Explain how the Ten Commandments guides moral decision making

• Explain that they are basic moral code and the guide for people to live
in right relationships with one another and with God.
 Sacred Scriptures
• The Ten Commandments [Exodus 20:2-17 & Deuteronomy 5:6-21]

• The Golden Rule -Do for others just what you want them to do for
you. [ Luke 6:31]
 Tradition
• Experiences gained over time
Magisterium – Teaching Authority