Unit One: Gospel Study

Grade 9 10 11/12 year 1 11/12 year 2
Gospel and Topic Mark: Discipleship Matthew: Righteousness John: Wonders and Miracles Luke: Parables
Resources FLR Clueless and Called: Discipleship and the Gospel of Mark FLR: Rocky Road: The Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount

FLR: Do Miracles Happen? Signs and Wonders in the Gospel of John

Supplemental Lessons provided by Jo-Ann Brant

FLR: The Radical Reign: Parables of Jesus

Supplemental Lessons provided by Jo-Ann Brant

Specific

Outcomes

Understand faith as following Jesus
Name one’s own path of discipleship
Understand the traditional Anabaptist interpretation of “turn the other cheek”
understand Walter Wink’s interpretation
Distinguish between different ways of knowing
Explore desire for proof about God
Distinguish between facts and abiding truths
Identify biblical abiding truths
Affirm truths that are personally meaningful
See the parables as profound and radical statements about the Kingdom of Heaven
Describe how to live out these parables
-grasp how the kingdom turns the values of the world on their head.

General Outcomes:

1. Study scripture together and seek mutual accountability and agreement rather than saying “to each his own.”

2. Ask: “What then should I do?”

FLR: Faith and Life Resources, Herald Press, Mennonite Publishing House