A Wise Discipleship Plan For All Ages Birth – Graduation
Levels of Biblical Learning®
As kids grow, their understanding of foundational truths grows with them. Levels of Biblical Learning covers 10 biblical concept areas—God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Bible, Salvation, Creation, Church, People, Family, Community & World—that children and students can learn as they study God’s Word. The concept areas are presented through eight different age ranges, from infancy through high school, and reflect levels of understanding that follow how God designed children to learn.
Select your age group to find out how they learn best:
High School
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High Schoolers are:
- Comfortable in articulating their beliefs and values to those around them
- Conscientiously aware and socially active regarding the cultural issues surrounding them
- Asking how their faith is consistent or contradictory with other beliefs
- Continuing to develop ideas pertaining to personal identity and self-image
- Learning to navigate social and cultural norms in relationships
- Exercising more independence and looking forward to life after high school
- Learning fiscal responsibility through work and stewardship
- Capable of exercising more leadership responsibilities within the church
Biblical Concepts
God
There is one God who reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person of the Trinity has distinct personal attributes.
God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is eternal, and although He is not bound by time, He chooses to operate in it in order to relate to us.
Because God is holy, He is altogether separate from and far above people who are sinful and deserves our reverence and obedience.
God is worthy of our worship, and to devote our attention or affections to worldly things which are rightly owed to God is idolatry.
God is Creator, all creation is a result of His work, and people were created in His image and as His crowning achievement to live in relationship with Him and reflect His glory.
God communicates to us through His Word and hears and answers when we pray, and our spiritual maturity depends on these spiritual disciplines.
God is omnipresent (all places at all times), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnipotent (all-powerful), and exercises sovereignty over all creation.
God is righteous, grieves the impact of sin on the world, and will one day make right all that sin has damaged.
As kids grow, their understanding of foundational truths grows with them.
Example progression of understanding
- Younger Preschoolers - God loves people
- Middle Preschoolers - God shows His love to me
- Older Preschoolers - God shows His love to people
- Younger Kids - God shows love to His people
- Middle Kids - God loves and values people around the world
- Preteens - God loves and values people around the world, no matter their status, race, or ethnicity
- Middle Schoolers - God is Creator, all creation is a result of His work, and people were created to live in relationship with Him
- High Schoolers - God is Creator, all creation is a result of His work, and people were created in His image and as His crowning achievement to live in relationship with Him and reflect His glory
