Assign each of the following activities:

• Read the parable of the weeds (Mt 13:24–30, 36–43) and the parable of the net (Mt 13:47–50). Write your own interpretation of these parables based on what they are saying about God’s judgment.

• C. S. Lewis contrasted Heaven and hell using images like the one’s below. Create at least four more images of your own to contrast Heaven and hell.

Hell is . . .                                                                                                  Heaven is . . .

an unending Church service without God                        God without a Church service

grey and so are its inhabitants                                              full of colors and all colors of people

full of clocks and telephones                                                full of only those possessions you gave

                                                                                                          away on earth

sex without pleasure                                                                pleasure without sex.

• Lewis also wrote, “The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” What does Lewis mean? Is he correct? Offer evidence one way or the other.