Commandments Applied to Life Situations

• Have your group members examine how the Ten Commandments should be obeyed in various life situations. Give each group member a small index card with one of the Ten Commandments, along with three real-life moral dilemmas. Then ask her to stand in front of the group and discuss how her assigned commandment would be applied in those scenarios.
  
  

Consequences of Disobeying

• Show what happens when the Ten Commandments are disobeyed. For example, you can give five real-life situations in which a person does something wrong. The group members must guess which of Ten Commandments was broken in each situation, and why.
  
  

Short Stories

• Another idea is to have each group member write a short story in which the characters seek to obey the Ten Commandments in their daily lives but occasionally fail, with consequences for those failures. Each group member can give a 20-minute presentation on his short story, and you give feedback on each story.
  
  

Society's Laws

• The group can discuss how the Ten Commandments have influenced the development of U.S. criminal and civil laws. For example, one person might mention that the commandment that prohibits murder influenced the way homicide sentences are determined. Another person could point out that the commandment against stealing influences laws that prohibit white-collar crimes such as tax evasion and embezzlement.