Three Ideas to Help Teach About the Priesthood

These are great ideas for home or class! You can totally adapt these for all ages.

1- The PriestHOOD

Display the following words:

  • Motherhood
  • Fatherhood
  • Childhood
  • Neighborhood

Ask:  What do you think the Suffix “hood” means?

Answer:  Hood = Added as a suffix to a word it shows a current condition or state

  • Motherhood = A condition or state of being a Mother
  • Fatherhood = A condition or state of being a Father
  • Childhood = A condition or state of being a child
  • Neighborhood = The condition or state of being neighbors in a proximity

Ask:  What is does Priesthood mean?

Answer:  The quality or state of being a Priest.

Ask:  What is a Priest?

Look Up:  “Priest” in the Bible Dictionary.

  • Note the first sentence
  • Therefore, Priests are mediators between us and God.  Through their various (and very organized) duties, they help save us.

Priesthood = The condition or state of being mediators between man and God and helping save us.

List:  All of the duties you can think of for Priesthood holders (in general and by office).  Discuss how each of these duties helps fulfill their duty as a “Priest”.

Ask Young Men:  When you understand your duty as a “Priest” (a mediator), how does this effect your attitude about assignments that may seem insignificant to you?

  • Talk about all of their regular duties from the Sacrament, fast offerings, setting up chairs, caring for the widows, etc.

Ask Young Women:  When you understand the responsibility your father, brothers, and friends have, what specific things can you do to help them?

  • Talk about specific things they can do both in the home, at school, and with their friends.
  • Consider how they will be remembered by their friends if they do these things
  • Consider their future husbands and how they hope the girls around them are positive influences.

 

2-  Understanding the name of the Melchizedek Priesthood

Ask:  Why do we call the Greater Priesthood the Melchizedek Priesthood and have we always called it that?

Answer:  D&C 107:1-5

Ask:  Who was Melchizedek?

Activity:  Draw a picture of a prophet on the board.  Name him Melchizedek.  Look up the following references writing everything you learn about him around him on the board:

Consider:  If the real name of the Priesthood (D&C 107:3) is substituted by Melchizedek’s name, what kind of a Priesthood holder must he have been?

Consider:  If the real name of the Priesthood is substituted “out of respect or reverence to the name of the Supreme Being, to avoid too frequent repetition of his name…” (D&C 107:4) by Melchizedek’s name, what does that teach us about using these sacred names of God and His Son?

 

3.  Use this Priesthood Quiz

  • Either give this quiz exactly as it is printed out, or use the answers to create your own activity

 

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4 comments

  1. I just wanted to say thank you for the innumerable ideas you have given me as a young women leader in our ward. Your ideas are fresh and so youth-oriented and a great help.
    Thank you so much.

  2. Thank you for ideas and clarity about the priesthood. I’m teaching this lesson in a YSA ward on Sunday and this is the perfect breakdown for my investigators!

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