Christian Grooming & Manners
Overview
Did you know that etiquette is basically training on how to behave around other human beings? Maturing can be fun with this honor AND it’ll also help you earn your Investiture Achievement!
Investiture Achievement Connection: This Honor is related to the Investiture Achievement requirements for EXPLORER Making Friends which require the completion of Requirements #1, #11, #12 and #14 of this Honor. The Advanced Ribbon requires completion of this Honor.
Requirements
1. What well-balanced combination of strengths did Jesus develop as a growing youth?
2. According to Psalm 8 what estimate does God place on your personal worth?
3. Are names important to God? Does He know your name? (Isaiah 43:1, Exodus 33:17, Isaiah 45:4)
4. Demonstrate or discuss proper conversational skills, including:
- a. The proper way to talk to older people in public
- b. How to address people and make proper introductions
- c. Questions to avoid
- d. How to think of pleasant things to say
- e. How to show concern for the feelings of others
- f. What to say when you answer the door
- g. How to answer the telephone correctly
5. If you want to use your gift of speech to God’s glory, what should your prayer be? (Psalm 19:14)
6. List seven points showing the power of correct posture. Check your posture and body profile. Demonstrate how to stand and sit correctly. Read Education, by Ellen G. White, page 198, paragraph 3, and note the benefits mentioned that come to you as a result of correct posture.
7. Give two reasons why physical fitness is important. Explain the relationship between proper diet, exercise, and weight control.
8. Tell the importance of proper grooming, including bathing, body hygiene, breath, proper care of clothes, shoes, etc.
9. Describe the proper way to wash your hair and care for your “hair tools.”
10. Describe the proper care for your hands and fingernails.
11. Know the importance of daily “soul-grooming” and of building a Christian character and why “belonging to Christ” makes a difference in the way you dress and act.
12. Discuss scriptural guidelines that will help you cope with your sexuality and keep your thoughts-life clean. Discuss intelligently the “dos and don’ts” of dating.
13. List four reasons why your face is important to you, and show how the way you exercise and sleep can improve your facial appearance. What relationship do thoughts have to facial “print-out”? Describe proper facial care.
14. Know the rules of table etiquette which make it easier for you and those around you, such as what to do with your knife and fork after using them. Know how to be a welcome dinner guest and a joy to your hosts.
15. List ten principles to help you overcome self-consciousness and social embarrassment.
16. For Young Ladies
- a. Demonstrate two exercises that will improve your posture.
- i. Lying on your back
- ii. Sitting on a chair
- b. Know how to choose a hairstyle that makes you look your best.
- c. Tell the proper style of clothes to wear if you are tall, plump, short, or thin or have a heavy hip line or full bosom.
- d. Demonstrate the correct way to put on a coat or outer wrap.
17. For Young Men
- a. Tell how to have well-groomed hair and how to choose a hairstyle that makes you look your best.
- b. List clothing rules and the proper style of clothes to wear if you are tall and thin, or short and chubby.
- c. Tell why Christians should practice good manners. Demonstrate how to seat a girl or woman at a table and how to properly escort her from home to a social function.
1. What well-balanced combination of strengths did Jesus develop as a growing youth?
2. According to Psalm 8, what estimate does God place on your personal worth?
3. Discuss the importance of proper grooming, including bathing, body hygiene, breath, proper care of clothes, shoes, etc. Illustrate what was discussed by creating a promotional poster, a short video, media presentation or other creative method.
4. Describe the way to care for your hair and for your hair tools.
5. Describe and demonstrate the proper washing and caring for your hands. Describe how to properly care for your fingernails.
6. Describe proper facial care.
7. Demonstrate three facial expressions to a partner, and have your partner interpret what the expression might mean. Then repeat the exercise with the roles reversed. Discuss how facial expression can communicate respect and attentiveness, or the lack thereof.
8. List seven points showing the power of correct posture. Check your posture and body profile. Demonstrate how to stand and sit correctly. Read Education, by Ellen G. White, page 198, paragraph 3, and note the benefits mentioned that come to you as a result of correct posture.
9. Give two reasons why physical fitness is important. Explain the relationship between proper diet, exercise, and weight control.
10. Find scriptural passages that show that names are important to God, and that He knows your name. Explain how using people’s names relates to good manners.
11. For each of the listed situations, discuss and then role play proper conversational skills within your culture and within a multicultural setting. For each situation, demonstrate how you would interact with someone younger than you, within your peer group, and with someone older than you.
- a. Addressing a person (taking into account title, profession, and familiarity).
- b. Making a proper introduction.
- c. Topics that are appropriate and inappropriate.
- d. Ways to put people at ease.
- e. Show concern for the feelings of others.
- f. Greet a person who arrives at your home.
- g. Approach a person’s home and greet them.
- h. Appropriate phone etiquette including answering, volume of your voice, and ending the call.
12. If you want to use your gift of speech to God’s glory, what should your prayer be? (Psalms 19:14)
13. Demonstrate the rules of table etiquette which make it easier for you and those around you in a formal and informal setting. Know how to be a welcome and joyful dinner guest.
14. Role-play a Christian way to respond to embarrassment, both as the person who has become embarrassed, and as someone who has witnessed the embarrassment.
15. Discuss how Adventist Fundamental Belief number 22 about Christian behavior affects your choice of attire.
16. Discuss the relevance of Luke 14:10 with regard to group interactions and humility, and how this helps us to be more like Jesus.
Answer key & resources
Master awards
This honor counts toward:
- Witnessing Master Award (retired)
Investiture Achievement
This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:
See also
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