Covenant, Kingdom, Wisdom, and Prophets: Know, Understand, Practise, Become

Youths (ages 9-12) · Psalm 1:1-6; Job 1:1-12; 38:1-7; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Daniel 7:13-14 · Standard ·35 minutes

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Objective: Learning is integrated with worship, character, relationships, service, and continued growth.

Read: Selected passages from the cycle

Opening: Ask: What evidence governs this lesson, and what must the editor or student not pretend the evidence says?

Say:

Biblical learning aims at understanding that shapes worship, character, relationships, service, and continued growth.
Review should reconnect knowledge with concrete faithful practices rather than treating recall alone as spiritual maturity.

Ask:

Do: Complete the Know Understand Practise Become Review activity.

Close: Pray using one truth from the selected passage and one faithful response.

Materials: Bible; Know Understand Practise Become Review

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 the principal passage and distinguish observation from explanation. Ask: What does the passage or curriculum record directly say?
7 minDiscuss. Test the big idea against the evidence and identify interpretive limits. Ask: How does the big idea arise from the evidence? What should we avoid claiming?
7 minActivity. Complete the primary evidence-based activity. Activity: Know Understand Practise Become Review. Printable: Y2-L27-P01-know-understand-practise-become-review.
4 minRespond. Name one faithful response and pray. Ask: What is one faithful response to this lesson?

Materials: Know Understand Practise Become Review; Bible; Pens or pencils

Read the selected evidence and record direct observations.
Place observations, interpretations, framework choices, or prudential applications into the resource categories.
Discuss which conclusions require more than direct textual wording.
Write one careful response that follows from the evidence.

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

Memory verse: Genesis 1:26-31

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

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