Faith Under Pressure: Know, Understand, Practise, Become

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Objective: Analyse the relevant text and explain the case that learning is integrated with worship, character, relationships, service, and continued growth.

Read: Selected passages from the cycle

Opening: Ask one observation question before explaining the lesson.

Say:

The cycle has joined biblical knowledge with worship, character, relationships, service, and mission or hope appropriate to the age segment.
Learning is integrated with worship, character, relationships, service, and continued growth.

Ask:

What does the text directly say?
What conclusion requires interpretation or synthesis?
What should we avoid overstating?
What is one faithful response?

Do: Faith Under Pressure: Know, Understand, Practise, Become Claim Audit

Close: Restate the big idea, name one faithful response, and pray.

Materials: Bible; Faith Under Pressure: Know, Understand, Practise, Become Claim Audit

Standard outline · 35 minutes

4 minConnect. Locate the lesson within Cycle 2 and activate prior knowledge.
4 minContext. Identify genre, audience, setting, and immediate context before making claims.
9 minRead and observe. Read selected portions of Acts 1:8; 8:4-40; 13:1-3 and identify direct observations. Ask: What does the passage directly say?
7 minDiscuss. Test the big idea against the evidence and identify interpretive limits. Ask: What conclusion can we support from those observations? Where could someone overstate or misapply this passage?
7 minActivity. Complete the primary evidence-based activity. Activity: Read and Notice: Faith Under Pressure: Know, Understand, Practise, Become. Printable: T4-L27-P01-faith-under-pressure-know-understand-practise-become-claim-audit.
4 minRespond. Name one faithful response and pray. Ask: What faithful response fits the text?

Activity details

Read and Notice: Faith Under Pressure: Know, Understand, Practise, Become · 10 min

Materials: Mission from Jerusalem to the Nations Claim Audit; Bible; Pens or pencils

Read or retell Selected passages from the cycle in context.
Name two details the text directly states.
Restate the big idea in your own words.

Low-resource option: Draw the categories on blank paper or complete verbally.

Closing

Memory verse: Selected passages from the cycle

Prayer: Thank God for what the passage shows and ask for wisdom to respond faithfully.

Take-home line: Learning is integrated with worship, character, relationships, service, and continued growth.