“I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.” Genesis 17:7 (NIV)
God’s sovereignty,
God’s grace,
God’s covenant,
God’s Word,
God’s mission.
How does our theology shape our ministry? What does being Reformed mean as we serve, teach, lead, and follow? This page includes articles, ideas, and resources for reflection and discussion. Send in your ideas, or continue the conversation on the ACRE blog site.
"Faith Formation: What’s the trouble with moralism?"
This article from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship explores the difference between faith formation and moralism, and how deepening our experience of baptism, communion, the Bible, and the Christian year can help us grow in faith.
Evaluation Tool
This free guide to choosing a curriculum offers several pages of questions that your church can use to review faith nurture materials and discuss your priorities and values. It’s fully reproducible and uses a rating scale that includes questions in several categories to help you determine whether the material is biblically and theologically sound as well as developmentally appropriate and easy and enjoyable for teachers and leaders as well as kids. You’ll find space for adding your own criteria and also determining whether the resource you’re evaluating is a good fit for the size and style of your congregation.
More Than Storytelling
This workshop you can lead compares a variety of approaches to Bible interpretation and teaching. It offers rules of thumb for teaching in a way that’s faithful to Scripture’s big story—God’s redemption and restoration of the world through Jesus Christ. You can download the workshop training manual and PowerPoint presentation for free to use in part or in full to train your teachers. Visit www.walkwithmeonline.org/support/workshopsyoulead.asp?SupportMenu
and www.kidconnectiononline.org/support/workshopsyoucanlead.asp for other free workshops from Faith Alive.
