Scripture and Wisdom deepens the participant's grasp of the Bible's storyline and the character of God. Building on Year 1, the year surveys Old Testament history and wisdom literature, walks through the prophets, studies God's communicable attributes, and helps participants answer key questions of faith and life with Gospel assurance. The aim is a maturing confidence in Scripture, a deeper knowledge of God, and wisdom for faithful living.Quarter 1 - Bible Overviews (OT History & Wisdom): Joshua through Esther and Job through Song of Solomon-God's covenant faithfulness in Israel's history and wisdom for life.Quarter 2 - Bible Overviews (OT Prophets): Isaiah through Malachi-judgment, mercy, and the promises of the Messiah.Quarter 3 - Communicable Attributes of God: God's goodness, love, grace, mercy, justice, faithfulness, and wisdom, reflected in His people.Quarter 4 - Key Questions and Gospel Assurance: identity, purpose, peer pressure, doubt, suffering, media, sexuality, and the exclusivity of Christ.Year 2 aim: Participants should finish the year able to trace the Old Testament storyline from the conquest through the prophets, draw wisdom from the poetic books, describe God's communicable attributes with worshipful understanding, and answer common questions of faith and life with Gospel clarity and assurance. Series Overview This four-year Christian formation series is designed to build a progressive foundation for worship, doctrine, Scripture confidence, discipleship, and faithful witness. The series may be used in church classes, home groups, discipleship groups, family settings, adult studies, youth studies, or other group-study venues. Each year combines Bible overview, doctrinal formation, worldview awareness, practical theology, and Gospel-centered application so participants grow in knowing God, trusting Scripture, understanding redemption in Christ, and living faithfully in ordinary life.Year 1 - Foundations: Establishes Gospel essentials, God's incommunicable attributes, basic theology in practice, and Old Testament foundations in Genesis and Exodus.Year 2 - Scripture and Wisdom: Deepens biblical understanding through Old Testament history, wisdom, prophets, communicable attributes, and key questions of faith and life.Year 3 - Worldview and Witness: Develops apologetic and worldview discernment while grounding participants in the Gospels, Acts, and the truthfulness of God.Year 4 - Living and Sending: Integrates New Testament teaching, mature discipleship, cultural engagement, vocation, ordinances, assurance, witness, and final synthesis.Series aim: Participants should grow in Gospel clarity, theological stability, love for Scripture, worshipful dependence on God, discernment in the world, and faithful service in the church and everyday life.4-Year Christian Formation Curriculum This curriculum is designed as a four-year Christian formation sequence for use in church, home, discipleship, or group-study settings. While it may be used with youth, it is also suitable for home groups, adult studies, family discipleship, and other venues. It is written for a Baptistic church context with Reformed convictions and emphasizes God's sovereignty, the authority of Scripture, salvation by grace through faith alone, believer's baptism, and congregational life. The program integrates the requested elements-Attributes of God, Worldviews, Bible book overviews, key questions Christians face, the Gospel, and basic theology in practice-across four years to build a progressive foundation for worship, doctrine, discipleship, and faithful witness in everyday life.
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