YEAR 7 CRS REVISION SUMMARY

MEANING OF RELATIONSHIP:

Relationship is the way two people or groups behave towards each other, or the tie, degree of kinship or intimacy, affinity in an affair. A relationship develops when people live, play, do things together or worship together.

MEANING OF FAMILY                                                     

A family is a group of people who are related by blood or by marriage. Families are the origin of human communities. Some members of a family include father, mother, children, relatives, grandparents and in-laws.

TYPES OF FAMILY

There are two different types of family e.g. nuclear, extended, paternal and maternal family. The Two Major Types of Family are:

The Nuclear Family – is made up of husband, and children, including adopted children and wards. The nuclear family is also called the natural or restricted family.

Extended Family – is made up of husband, wife, children, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. It is also made up of the relatives of the parents in the nuclear family.

Other Types of Family are:

Paternal Family – the family lineage is traced through the father’s side.

Maternal Family – the family lineage is traced through the mother’s side.

RECOGNITION OF FAMILY MEMBERS

Parents’ parents – Grandparents

Father and mother – Parents        

Father’s and mother’s brothers – Uncles

Father’s and mother’s sisters – Aunts

Brother’s or Sister’s sons – Nephews

Brother’s or Sister’s daughters – Nieces

Uncle’s or Aunt’s children – First cousins

First cousins’ children – Second cousins.

 RELATIONSHIP IN THE FAMILY

BIBLICAL REFERENCES: 

EPH. 6:1-9. ECCLE.12:1. PROV. 22:1.COL. 3:18-21. I PETER 3:1-7    

ROLES OF FAMILY MEMBERS: EPH. 6:1-9; 5:21 – 33; COL. 3: 18 – 21

Every member of the family has God-ordained roles to play for love, harmony, progress and peaceful co-existence of the family.

Failure of any member of the family to play his or her role will make the family not to be what God planned for it.

Children are to obey their parents in the fear of God. That is, the children’s obedience to the parents should be in agreement with the word of God. They are also to honour; respect their parents so that it will be well with them and so that they may live long on the earth.

Fathers and Mothers –They are to take care of the children, provide for them and not to provoke them, but to nurture and admonish the children in truth i.e. they are to train them to be disciplined children, instruct them with the word of God.

Servants/Wards – They are to be obedient to the masters with fear and trembling, serving in singleness of heart and without eye-service. Their service should be as to the Lord Jesus Christ and not as to men, or men-pleasers, but as servants of the Lord Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. The service they render should be of goodwill as to the Lord who will reward them accordingly for well-doing.

Wives –They are to be subject and submissive to their husbands in everything as the church is subject and submissive unto Christ the head of the church. Wives are to recognize their husbands as to the head of the family. They are to also respect and reverence their husbands.

Husbands – They are to love their wives sacrificially as Christ loved the church and died for it. Husbands are to care, cherish and relish their wives as their own bodies since no man ever hates his own flesh. It is Gods command that the man should leave his father and mother and cleave unto his own wife so that both of them can become one flesh.

 

 CONCEPT OF GOOD FAMILY NAME

The concept of a good family name is manifested by the character, virtues and the up-bringing of members of the family. Normally, family good name is not bought with money but comes as a result of good reputation shown by the members. This includes hardworking, discipline, honesty, respect for other, politeness, courtesy, kindness, public-spiritedness, assistance to others especially the needy etc.

On the other hand, family a good name is tarnished and destroyed by vices like waywardness of children, fighting, drunkenness, immorality, robbery either by pen or by gun, cultism and such anti-social behaviour portrayed by the members of the family.

The Bible has this to say, “A good name is to be chosen, rather than great riches, and favour is better than silver or gold”. Proverbs 22:1.

MORAL LESSONS:

The plan of God is for all members of the family to live peacefully together. Therefore, anything that can lead to trouble or break up of the family should be avoided.

All members of the family are to play their roles with the progress of the family in view.

Every member of the family should protect the good name of the family because a good name is better than silver and gold.

                                                                                        

THE SCHOOL FAMILY:

Every school consists of five groups of people, which come together to form the school family.

Group 1	The Principal, Vice-Principal, Administrators, Bursar, and Secretary.
Group 2	The Teacher - Form Masters and Mistresses.
Group 3	Subject Teachers.
Group 4	Prefects and Class Monitors – Students.
Group 5	Students.

 

CHOOSING FRIENDS AT SCHOOL:

A friend is someone who is very close to us. Friendship occurs as a result of likeness.

During our first days at school, we have no friends. We are just individuals from different homes who have been brought together to learn. Eventually, we are to choose some of our classmate or school mate to become our friends. Human being has been created by God in a way that we can’t live in isolation. On a daily basis, we need to interact with our fellow mates to discuss, learn and impact knowledge. Friends are inevitable in the journey of life. They can either make you or mar you.

REASONS/FACTORS FOR CHOICE OF FRIENDS:

At most times, we choose friends because of the:

-same age group,

-common interest or school clubs

-religion.

 -Intelligence

-Good behaviour. etc

At times, our friendship becomes a lifelong relationship (family-friends).

MORAL LESSONS:

1. To grow in life in all areas, we need one another.

2. We can’t do without the help of others so we must show ourselves friendly.

FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN DAVID AND JONATHAN

THE FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT

RESULT OF BAD FRIENDSHIP

CONTENT:

Friendship can’t be ruled out in any facet of life. Animals in the forest communicate with each other not to talk of human beings created in the image of God. There are some examples found in the Bible:

FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN DAVID AND JONATHAN

Jonathan was the son of Saul, the first king of Israel. David was the son of Jesse, a shepherd. David and Jonathan became friends after God helped David to kill Goliath of Gath (Philistine) as he lived in the house of King Saul and married his daughter Jonathan and David became close when David was living in the palace. Jonathan gave David his robe, a bow, arrow and girdle for presents as a mark of their friendship. Jonathan chose David as his friend because he was a good boy. He was brave and he trusted in the lord.

THE FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT:

Jesus told a parable about two friends, one of whom had a visitor in the middle of the night. The one with the visitor went to his friend and requested that he should give him three loaves of bread to feed his guest for he had nothing to offer to him. But his friend refused the request on the ground that he had gone to bed with his family. But because the friend who needed help persisted, he rose up and gave him the bread. The friend confessed to him that he did not attend to his request because of their friendship, but because of his persistence and disturbance.

From this story, we learnt that some friends are not kind and reliable, not willing to help when their help is seriously needed. They easily disappoint their friends. We should be careful and look for those with good friendship qualities. More importantly, Jesus wants us to understand, He is the best friend to have. He is more than a friend.

QUALITIES OF GOOD FRIENDS:

i. Bravery

ii. Trust in the lord

iii. Fear of the lord

iv. Faithfulness    

v. Obedience

vi. Reliability etc.

RESULT OF BAD FRIENDSHIP (PROV. 1:10; 2THES. 3:6-13)

The Bible made it clear that “evil communication corrupts good manners”. This is true among all human but most influential on students. Having bad friends is a great danger because it is easier to influence human negatively than positively. Thus, it is easier for a criminal to influence his good friend than for a good boy to influence a criminal to become a good boy.

Here are some characters found in bad friends: truancy, smoking, homosexual, lesbianism, prostitution, drinking, stealing, laziness, cultism, engaging in watching unethical video films and many more.

 

MORAL LESSONS:

1. We must learn to pray to God to help us choose friends who possess good qualities in life, like Jonathan.

2. Some friends are not reliable and may disappoint us when we need help most, so we must be careful.

3. We should learn to pray to God to help us avoid friends who are unreliable and can disappoint us.

4. The evils of bad friendship can destroy our future to succeed and prosper in life.

5. We must learn to pray to God to help us avoid the evils of bad friendship so as to succeed and prosper in life.

 

A.   IDENTIFICATION OF THE NAMES OF COMMUNITY LEADERS.

B.   WAYS OF SUSTAINING RELATIONSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY.

CONTENT:

A.  IDENTIFICATION OF THE NAMES OF COMMUNITY LEADERS.

The Human Community:                                                                                               

The human community is a group of people living in an area and share common goals and interest. It is where we live with our parents and neighbours.  In a community, different kinds of people live and work there to earn their living. In any community, there are good or bad people, rich and poor people, lazy and hardworking people, trouble makers and trouble-shooters.

The people in the community, meet, mix, relate and interact with each other every day in the compounds where they live, on the roads, in the streets, in the church, in the market, in the offices and in many other places. As they mix and interact with each other, relationships are established.

Community Leaders:

In every human community, there are different kinds of leaders. There are community leaders, Church or Religious leaders, Education or School leaders and political leaders, etc. Those who are community leaders are the Chiefs, the Council of Elders and Community Development leaders or leaders of Community Progress Unions. These leaders play significant roles in the affairs of the community and the progress of the community.

B. WAYS OF SUSTAINING RELATIONSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY.

For the peace, unity and progress of a community people in the community are duty-bound to develop or establish a good relationship with each other? There are ways of sustaining a good relationship and ways of destroying a good relationship among the people of the community.

1. Respect for Elders and Leaders:

This means that children, honour and obey their parents, teachers and prefects at school.  Every citizen of the community submits to the authority of the chiefs and elders. This enhances the unity, progress and prosperity of the community and the continuity of a good and healthy relationship.

On the other hand, if children are unruly, disrespectful to parents, teachers and prefects at school, while adult and citizens of the community do not submit to or obey the authority of chiefs and elders in the community, then there will be fighting, confusion and breakdown of law and order which will result in strained relationship and lack of progress in the community.

2. Obedience to Law and Order:

The laws of the land just like the rules and regulations in the school are made to control human behaviour in the community. The laws tell us what is good to do and what is bad to avoid. This helps to maintain and sustain a good relationship with one another. To sustain a good relationship in the community, citizens need to:

1.      Respect for each other.

2.      Obey the laws of the land.

3.      Do not trespass other people’s rights, Commit crimes such as fighting, cheating, fraud(419) etc

3. Participation in Community Development Programmes

Good citizens contribute levies and donations for such projects, thus promoting good relationship and progress in the community as governments alone cannot provide all the needed facilities in the community.

4. Caring for the Needy:

The Bible teaches that we should be our brother’s keeper. We are expected to be helpful to others especially the poor, the physically challenged or handicapped people. These are people who could not provide the basic necessities of life for themselves. They have to be assisted to survive. There is love in sharing; you can help a fellow student with part of your pocket money in buying some eatables from the tuck-shop when he or she is in need. The Lord Jesus taught that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.”

5. Religious Tolerance:

Religious tolerance simply means peaceful coexistence

between people of a different religion. As Christians, we live in the same community with people of other religions.

 In Nigeria, there are three major religions, Christianity, Islam

 and African Traditional Religion. Religious tolerance is based

 on the understanding that there are three clear elements common to all three major religions in Nigeria. These elements are:

1.      The common belief in the Almighty God as the Creator and Controller of the world;

2.      The good relationship between God and human beings got broken down due to the fault of human beings; and

3.      There is a need to restore the broken relationship between God and human beings.

MORAL LESSONS:

1. You have a responsibility to help sustain a good relationship in the school between teachers and students and among students.

2. You should pray to God to help you sustain a good relationship in the school and in your home community.

3. As a true follower of Christ, you are to show religious tolerance and love both Christians and non-Christians alike.

4. We are not to imitate religious fanatics in killing people of other religion and destroying their places of worship.