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NO COMPROMISE THINK
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If all else f dards. REFERENCE
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My conscience is clean! If it feels good, do it PASSAGE
I never use it! ARTICLE
BIG IDEA
CROSSROAD
SCENE I SCENE 2
It’s near the end of the semester. You Your best friend is a computer whiz and can make
realize that you’re failing biology. If you anything with a computer, even fake I.D. cards
do, you lose your scholarship. Your that look exactly like the real thing. Since you’re
roommate happens to have a work- not 21 yet, you can’t go to many of the hottest
study job in the biology department clubs or nightspots near campus. Your best friend
undergraduate office and helps out asks, “Do you want me to make you one? You
with all the printing the department don’t have to go to these places and drink. You
does. They have easy access to a copy can just mix and mingle, and have a good time.
of the final. Your roommate offers to You don’t want to miss out on a lot of good times,
obtain a copy for you. “No one will ever do you?”
know,” your roommate says. “After all ,
you don’t want to lose your
scholarship, do you?” SCENE 3
You’ve been dating a person exclusively for 6 months now. The topic
of marriage has come up. They are pressuring you to have sex. You
think to yourself, “Why not?”
PATTERNS
PERSONALIZE
Think of areas or situations in
your own life where you are
tempted to compromise. What
steps do you need to take in
EXAMPLES FOR FURTHER STUDY:
order to respond biblically?
Daniel - Daniel 1,2,6
Mordecai - Book of Esther
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