Discipleship%20Across%20the%20Lifespan

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Discipleship Across the Lifespan

• Trinity International University
• Class 3b

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Moral Development
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Faith

• Definition of Terms

Morals
Values
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Knowing what is right
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to
do, and does not do it, to him it is sin. (James
417)
Doing what is right
A Great Gulf
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Knowing what is right
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that
is, in my flesh for the wishing is present in
me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the
good that I wish, I do not do but I practice the
very evil that I do not wish. (Romans 718-19)
Doing what is right
A Great Gulf
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Knowing what is right
Doing what is right
A Great Gulf
How do we bridge the gap?
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Knowing what is right
Doing what is right

• A Great Gulf

What approaches have you seen to be less than
adequate?
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Lawrence Kohlberg
1927-1987

• Center for Moral Development
• Harvard

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Stages of Moral Development
Stage 6 Universal Ethical Principles
Stage 5 Social Contract Individual Rights
Greatest good
Stage 4 Social Systems Conscience Law
Order Morality
Stage 3 Mutual Interpersonal Expectations Good
boy / nice girl
Stage 2 Self-Interest Orientation Whats in it
for me?
Stage 1 Heteronomous Morality External
only How can I avoid punishment?
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Stages of Moral Development
Stage 6 Universal Ethical Principles
Focus upon Individuals (Post conventional)
Stage 5 Social Contract Individual Rights
Greatest good
Stage 4 Social Systems Conscience Law
Order Morality
Focus upon Society (Conventional)
Stage 3 Mutual Interpersonal Expectations Good
boy / nice girl
Ego-centric (Pre-conventional)
Stage 2 Self-Interest Orientation Whats in it
for me?
Stage 1 Heteronomous Morality External
only How can I avoid punishment?
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Stages of Moral Development
Love the Lord
Focus upon Individuals (Post conventional)
Love your neighbor as yourself
Because God said so He is to be obeyed
Focus upon Society (Conventional)
Christians are called to be a holy people
Ego-centric (Pre-conventional)
Health, Wealth, Prosperity preaching
Hell, fire, damnation preaching Repent or else!
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Stages of Moral Development
Love
Love the Lord
Focus upon Individuals (Post conventional)
Love your neighbor as yourself
Gratitude Obligation
Because God said so He is to be obeyed
Focus upon Society (Conventional)
Christians are called to be a holy people
Fear
Ego-centric (Pre-conventional)
Health, Wealth, Prosperity preaching
Hell, fire, damnation preaching Repent or else!
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Christian groups that have numerous rules and
regulations will actually hinder the liberation
of their people into postconventional thinking.
? Perry Downs, Pg 106.
Focus upon Individuals (Post conventional)
Focus upon Society (Conventional)
Ego-centric (Pre-conventional)
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Faith Development
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James W. Fowler

• Director of the Center for Research in Faith
  Moral Development, Emory University

Six Stages of Faith
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Stages of Faith Development
Stage 6 Universalizing Faith Transforming
process
Stage 5 Conjunctive Faith Awareness of
perspective
Stage 4 Individual/Reflective Faith Focus upon
personal faith
Stage 3 Synthetic/Conventional
Faith Commitment to church leaders
Stage 2 Mythic/Literal Faith Childhood Limited
to concrete thinking
Stage 1 Intuitive/Projective Faith Early
Childhood Images Stories
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What is the place of the Holy Spirit in this
process?
Stage 6 Universalizing Faith Transforming
process
Stage 5 Conjunctive Faith Awareness of
perspective
Stage 4 Individual/Reflective Faith Focus upon
personal faith
Stage 3 Synthetic/Conventional
Faith Commitment to church leaders
Stage 2 Mythic/Literal Faith Childhood Limited
to concrete thinking
Stage 1 Intuitive/Projective Faith Early
Childhood Images Stories
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How have you seen aspects of these stages in your
own life?
Stage 6 Universalizing Faith Transforming
process
Stage 5 Conjunctive Faith Awareness of
perspective
Stage 4 Individual/Reflective Faith Focus upon
personal faith
Stage 3 Synthetic/Conventional
Faith Commitment to church leaders
Stage 2 Mythic/Literal Faith Childhood Limited
to concrete thinking
Stage 1 Intuitive/Projective Faith Early
Childhood Images Stories
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Components in Growth
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The Role of the Teacher
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Agree or Disagree?

• The primary role of the teacher is to serve the
  needs of this student

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When God wanted to communicate with us, He
wrapped His message in a person. We are called
to do the same thing.
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Your teaching will always have one of two results
in the lives of your students

• Contamination

Innoculation
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The goal of the teacher is to make the student
self-sustaining.

• You want to bring your students to the place
  where you are unnecessary to the process of their
  spiritual growth.

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The Role of the Curriculum
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The Lesson Plan
A planned strategy designed to produce

• Exposure
• Encounter
• Application

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Exposure
Encounter
Experience

• Gives knowledge

Gives insight conviction
Facilitates decision behavior
What does the Bible say?
How will I convey it to my students?
How will it change their lives?
Biblical Principles
TheEvent
People where they live
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Teaching Methods

• Role Playing
• Questions Answers
• Audio-Visual
• Story telling
• Lecture
• Drama

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Point of Contact

• Entice the attention of your students
• They do not come ready to learn
• Your job is to stimulate the desire to learn

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If the Scriptures are central, then make them
central
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The purpose of your teaching is more that the
mere impartation of trivia
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The Role of the Student
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People learn best when they are actively involved
in the learning process
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Teaching is to be defined, not as what the
teacher does, but by what the student learns.
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I am primarily and continually a student

• You may stop taking classes, but you will never
  stop learning.

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Seven Laws of Learning

• Law of previous experience New learning should
  be linked to (and build upon) the experiences of
  the learner.
• Law of relevance Effective learning is relevant
  to the live of the learner.
• Law of expectations A learners ability to learn
  will be affected by his expectations.
• Law of active learning Active responding
  produces more effective learning than passive
  listening or reading.

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Seven Laws of Learning

• Law of practice and feedback Learners cannot
  master skills without repeated practice and
  relevant feedback.
• Law of individual differences Different people
  learn in different ways.
• Law of emotional learning Events that are
  accompanied by intense emotions result in
  long-lasting learning.

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The problem of motivation involves overcoming
initial inertia

• It is always easier to steer a moving object

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The Role of the Holy Spirit
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1 Corinthians 31-3

• And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to
  spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to
  babes in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not
  solid food for you were not yet able to receive
  it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 3 for
  you are still fleshly. For since there is
  jealousy and strife among you, are you not
  fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?

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