Thank you for posting this my friend. It was a marvelous day for me when the Lord opened my eyes to this truth.
I like the “basic outline”. I teach a weekly bible study to a group of about 25 adults with special needs, who are indeed special in the Lord’s eyes. Although there is a lot of curriculum out there, very little of it is Christ centered. In the materials, after the bible story, the focus then turns to teaching them the moralism “lesson”. This just drives me crazy, so I have to adapt and change the lesson, even though the activities and papers they do often deal more with the the moralism than Christ.
I have this big arrow that I pull out and they all know that it means that the entire bible points to Jesus and I try to make the application for that evening’s bible lesson Christ-centered application to their life and NOT the moralistic one. Sometimes that is hard to do for their level of understanding. (Mental, not spiritual). That outline will greatly help me to point them to their constant need for Christ in a more effective way than I think I have been doing.
Bless you for doing this Sister!
Although there is a lot of curriculum out there, very little of it is Christ centered. In the materials, after the bible story, the focus then turns to teaching them the moralism “lesson”.
Same is true with Sunday School curriculum for our children. "Teach them to be good." Problem is "good" people go to Hell.