What’s Up: Discovering the Gospel, Jesus, and Who You Really Are (Student Guide)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Have you ever asked a middle-school kid you know what’s up with “the gospel”? Can they explain what it is and why it matters to a kid? Or do they suspect that being good, listening to parents, and obeying rules is ultimately what God expects?
What’s Up is a flexible middle-school curriculum workbook using illustrations, stories, and interactive activities to help kids understand why the gospel really is good news. What’s Up answers the real questions of identity and purpose that begin to unfold in middle-school hearts and minds. Revealing God's love, forgiveness, and power to change, What’s Up helps fourth through eighth-grade students understand that the gospel is all about God making us into who he meant us to be all along. As they learn how to lean wholly (and happily) on Jesus through these formative years, their lives are changed from the inside out.
The curriculum guides middle-school age students in discovering Jesus through fifteen 90-minute lessons that can be expanded to cover twenty-six weeks. The student guide offers age-appropriate activities, fun illustrations, questions to think about, and personal application activities for home. Teachers will find easy-to understand instructions and notes, helps and directions to make teaching the gospel to children clear and simple in the corresponding teacher guide. What's Up is easily adapted to a wide variety of group settings, including Sunday school, youth group, Christian school, and homeschool. The corresponding Teacher Guide offers easy-to-understand instructions and notes, helps, and directions to make teaching the gospel to children clear and simple. Requires little work outside of the classroom or teaching setting.
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- Provides illustrations, stories, and interactive activities
- Guides middle-school age students in discovering Jesus through fifteen 90-minute lessons
- Answers the real questions of identity and purpose that begin to unfold in middle-school hearts and minds
- Lesson 1: Oh . . . Now I See
- Lesson 2: That’s My Whole Life Story
- Lesson 3: My Tongue Is Connected to My—What?
- Lesson 4: Hmm . . . What Grades Do I Get?
- Lesson 5: Presents? For Me?!.
- Lesson 6: But I’m a Good Person
- Lesson 7: Do I Love God? Um . . .
- Lesson 8: Yes, I Worship Idols
- Lesson 9: Look! Shark
- Lesson 10: That’s My Dad!
- Lesson 11: Grrr . . . That Makes Me SO Mad!
- Lesson 12: I’m So Sorry—NOT!
- Lesson 13: I’m So Sorry—Really!
- Lesson 14: I (Gulp) Forgive You
- Lesson 15: Let’s. Keep. Going
Words can’t express how thankful I am for this curriculum. As a former middle school Bible teacher, I know how impossible it is to find truly gospel-centered material presented in a format that young people can process . . . and will find interesting at the same time. In a church youth culture awash with moralistic messages and frilly silliness, What’s Up? sets the standard of good news written for young minds. Seriously, I can’t recommend it too highly.”
—Elyse Fitzpatrick, Author of Good News for Weary Women and coauthor of Give Them Grace
What an amazing gift, What’s Up? is going to be for middle-school and junior-high ministry, and parents of fifth through eighth-graders. Debbie Harrell and Jack Klumpenhower have done an outstanding job of contextualizing the gospel of God’s grace for kids in one of the most vulnerable and formative seasons of life. I get excited just thinking about how this curriculum, in the hands of grace-loving leaders, will help disciple a new generation of gospel-equipped, Jesus-loving students. And let me add, the teachers are going to benefit just as much as the students. Great job, Debbie and Jack. More, more, more!”
—Dr. Scotty Ward Smith, Founding Pastor of Christ Community Church; Teacher in Residence at West End Community Church; author of Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith
Have you ever wondered how you could explain the great truths of the gospel to your children? What’s Up? takes you step by step with solid teaching, thoughtful questions, insights, and practical application— always leading you to Christ. It is a must-read for parents, teachers, young and old.
—Rose Marie Miller, Author of From Fear to Freedom and Nothing Is Impossible with God
- Title: What's Up? Discovering the Gospel, Jesus, and Who You Really Are
- Authors: Deborah Harrell, Jack Klumpenhower
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781939946812, 1939946816
- Resource ID: LLS:WHATSUP
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-04T18:07:32Z