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Lesson 179 · Building Self-Reliance
Managing Financial Resources Wisely
Help students apply the Savior’s teachings as they make financial decisions.
Teach from the manual first
The lesson comes from the Church’s seminary manual
Use the official lesson as written. These activities take a few minutes to open or review class, and the send-home card helps families reinforce what was taught.
The Savior’s teachings can help us make better financial decisions now and in the future.
New Testament Seminary Teacher Manual (2027). Follow your coordinator’s pacing guide.
Open class
Joseph’s Storehouse
A class game: eight years of plenty and famine with one shared storehouse. Count the cost (Luke 14:28).
Review
My financial guidebook
The lesson’s six passages for the folded guidebook, matched to the truths they teach.
Review · 6 passagesMy Financial Guidebook
Malachi 3, Matthew 6, Luke 12, 1 Timothy 6, Jacob 2 and D&C 104.
Open →
Category review · 5 facets + reflectionSelf-Reliance Check-In
Category review for Lessons 177–180, from the manual’s Assess Your Learning ideas.
Open →Teacher note: Joseph’s Storehouse tracks choices, not blessings. Tithing is shown as faithfulness, never as a way to earn money. Elder Neil L. Andersen: tithing “is principally a matter of our faith.”
Send home
Count the cost
Send this to your class chat after the lesson. Students and parents can open the story and resources at home, alone or with family.
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?”Luke 14:28
Ask: What’s one goal you’ll need to plan and save for, and how can you involve the Lord?
Try: Draw a tower and write your goal on it. Ask: Is this necessary? How can I involve the Lord? Which teaching of the Savior helps?
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