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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 […]

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

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,