Big Truths for Young Hearts: Unit #5 (download only) 12-Week Curriculum

This exciting new curriculum will help build a foundation of Biblical truths in the hearts of children. “Big Truths for Young Hearts” is a 52-week lesson series based on the book ‘Big Truths for Young Hearts’ by Bruce Ware. In this book, Dr. Ware unpacks the riches of God’s word in a systematic way designed to help kids to grasp of the big picture of who God is and all He desires us to know through His Word.

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This year-long curriculum series takes the concepts, or the BIG TRUTHS, presented in the book and provides teachers, parents, and churches with all the resources they need to proclaim those truths to the children in their lives.

The curriculum units follow the chapters in Dr. Ware’s book. A list of the units in this series is found on page 6. The hope is that churches would teach straight through the materials, as in many ways the units do build on each other. But the units are also written in such a way that you could easily teach them as a stand-alone curriculum. A full scope and sequence of the materials is available to download from the Sunday School Store.

Unit 5 completes the 52-week study of the Big Truths of the Bible. In this unit, students will focus on the doctrines of salvation (soteriology) and the church (ecclesiology). As they look at salvation, they will see what the Bible says about election, faith, belief, righteousness, justification, sanctification, and the truth that salvation is through Jesus alone. In the second part of the unit, students will uncover Biblical teaching on the church; what a church is, what a church does, symbols of the church and how the church grows through evangelism. This unit is an excellent cap to the study we’ve been working through all year as the truths students have already learned about God, man, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are come together to make sense of salvation and the church.

Age group: Elementary – K-6/ ages 5-12

Unit 5 Lessons:

• God’s Kindness and Wisdom in Choosing Some to Save
  • Text – Genesis 25 & 27
  • Jacob & Esau
  • Main Point – God chose His people before the creation of the world
    
    
• Sirs, What Must I Do to Be Saved?
  • Text – Acts 16
  • Paul and Silas in Prison
  • Main Point – Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved
    
    
• Declared Right in God’s Eyes When We Believe
  • Text – Luke 5
  • Jesus heals a paralyzed man
  • Main Point – God declares His children righteous because of Jesus
    
    
• Made More Like Christ Through All of Our Lives
  • Text – Luke 19
  • Zacchaeus
  • Main Point – God makes His children righteous because of Jesus
    
    
• Saved By Good Works? NO! Saved For Good Works? YES!
  • Text – Titus
  • The Christian life
  • Main Point – Good works show that God has changed someone’s heart
    
    
• Must People Believe in Christ to be Saved?
  • Text – Acts 17
  • Paul and the altar to the Unknown God in Athens
  • Main Point – Jesus is the only Savior and people must know Him to be saved

• Jesus is the Lord of the Church
  • Text – 1 Corinthians 12
  • What is the church?
  • Main Point – Jesus is the Lord of the church
    
    
• A People of the New Covenant
  • Text – Exodus 20 & Romans 8
  • The 10 Commandments
  • Main Point – God is in a covenant relationship with His people
    
    
• Communities of Christians Who Worship and Serve Together
  • Text – Acts 2
  • The beginning of the church
  • Main Point – the church is God’s people; called out by God to worship and serve Him
    
    
• Baptism: Picturing Jesus’ Death and Resurrection
  • Text – Acts 8
  • Phillip and the Ethiopian
  • Main Point – Baptism is a symbol showing that someone has trusted Jesus for salvation
    
    
• The Lord’s Supper: Remembering Jesus’s Death and Resurrection
  • Text -1 Corinthians 11 and Mark 14
  • The Last Supper
  • Main Point – The Lord’s Supper is a time for believers to remember what Jesus did when He died on the cross
    
    
• Evangelism: Growing the Church Through Making Disciples
  • Text -Acts
  • The Gospel Spreads
  • Main Point – Jesus commands His followers to make disciples of all nations

Each lesson in this curriculum is designed to be taught over a 60-90 minute time frame to elementary students (K-6th) and includes the following elements: opening activities, large group worship, large group teaching guides, small group application activities for 2 different age groups, printable activity sheets, memory verse posters, take-home pages for family devotions and more.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

AUTHOR’S BIO: Bethany Darwin spent 20 years working full-time in children’s ministry before recently coming home to raise her son. During her years in children’s ministry, Bethany discovered gaps in available curriculum and often struggled to find a curriculum that worked in her church setting. It was this discovery that awakened a passion in her for writing children’s ministry curriculum. 

Bethany is a popular curriculum writer for Ministry-to-children and you can find many resources of hers there. You can connect with Bethany through Facebook at ‘Treasure Trunk Books’ or on IG at ‘Treasure Trunk Kids.’ On these pages she shares articles and resources for families as well as what she is doing to point her little one to Christ. You can also find other resources of hers there. Bethany is a member of Bethany Bible Church in Thousand Oaks, CA.