This document discusses the importance of forming a Christian conscience. It explains that conscience allows us to discern how to live out Christ's commandments of love in our relationships. The document outlines three levels of Christian conscience development: the instinctive level where right and wrong is based on reward and punishment; the ethical level where morality is not dependent on others' approval; and the Christian level where actions respond to faith to achieve fulfillment. It challenges the reader to form, inform, and transform their conscience using objective moral values and laws.

1. Following and Forming our
Conscience

2. What is the connection between

3. Forming a Christian Conscience
Matthew 12: 9-13

4. FOLLOW YOUR CONSCIENCE
It describes the God-given law built into our
human nature
- OUR REASON-
We are morally obliged to always do good
and avoid evil.
Hence,
Our dignity lies in following our properly
formed consciences.

5. Jesus and Conscience…
Lesson: Conscience allows us to go beyond
the law and defend basic human values.

6. Educate your Conscience
Form our Conscience
Why?
FORMATION will lead to
TRANSFORMATION
- We are called to discern
how we can concretely
live out Christ’s
commandments of love in
all our relationships.

7. A MATURE CHRISTIAN
CONSCIENCE
Every person has a responsibility to
develop his conscience because we
undergo stages of development in life.

8. Levels of Christian Conscience
1. Instinctive Level
Good- rewarded
Bad- punishment

9. Levels of Christian Conscience
2. Ethical or moral stage
Good or evil of acts is
not dependent on the
approval or
disapproval of others

10. Levels of Christian Conscience
3. Christian Level
Actions as a great
response of faith to
achieve the fullness
of life.

11. Challenge
Since conscience is not
a law unto itself but
uses objective moral
laws and values to
discern moral good
and evil, we have the
moral obligation to
form, inform and
transform our
conscience.