Category Archives: Discipleship

Discipling Your Kids

By Yancey Arrington | January 8, 2010

As the new year begins, one of the best ways to spend it is by working with your spouse to develop a plan to disciple your children in 2010. That’s right, you read correctly. There should be a plan when it comes to helping grow your kids spiritually. I would also argue that if your [...]

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Download “Gospel-Centered Children’s Curriculum” PDF

By Yancey Arrington | August 15, 2009

Here is my five-part series on thinking through a gospel-centered children’s curriculum as a PDF article for download. P.S. – Feel free to leave a comment in the comments section if you downloaded the article and are on a church staff.

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Gospel-Centered Children’s Curriculum – Part 5

By Yancey Arrington | August 14, 2009

What would age-graded ministries look like if they were gospel-centered? I suggest the following: PRESCHOOL MINISTRIES: IDENTIFY – Preschool ministries deal with those who are obviously the lead developmentally advanced: infants and toddlers. Their role will primarily be helping children indentify the major characters and stories of the Bible, not the least of which will [...]

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Gospel-Centered Children’s Curriculum – Part 4

By Yancey Arrington | August 13, 2009

Another strength of gospel-centered curriculum is that the gospel aims at the heart while moral “how to” lessons aim at the surface of behavior. If Martin Luther, John Calvin and the Reformers understood Jesus correctly, all sin ultimately is an issue of worshiping something or someone other than God in Christ. John Calvin said, “The [...]

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Gospel-Centered Children’s Curriculum – Part 3

By Yancey Arrington | August 12, 2009

Morality-based curriculum is generally different from gospel-centered curriculum in several ways (some of these characteristics will be fleshed-out later): As noted in the last row, a gospel-centered Bible story will seek to demonstrate how it ties into the bigger story of Redemption in Jesus. This means the teacher seeks to go “up” from the smaller, [...]

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