Homeschool Happenings: Positive Action Bible Curriculum

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For almost 50 years Positive Action Bible Curriculum has helped teachers and student discover God in His Word. Behold Your God introduces high school age student to foundational Christian theology. In this one year study students will be presented with the many attributes of God, understand the nature of God, develop a stronger relationship with God in your daily prayer and study time, seeking, submitting and trusting the Lord, and putting Christ first and foremost in your life. These are just a few of the wonderful topics that your teen will learn as they work through the 35 lessons of Behold Your God. There is both a Student Manual as well as a Teacher's Manual in this curriculum. You can also purchase an Extra Resources - Presentation and Evaluation that provides added tools to supplement the curriculum. The curriculum can be purchased in either book form or digital.

My daughter said, "Behold Your God is a Bible study in which the goal is to study God and His role as not only our heavenly Father but also the Creator of the universe. This curriculum starts off simply by explaining our faith and who God is. Lessons gradually get more complex to further the student’s understanding of their faith. Students are presented with a lesson to read through that provides questions and Bible passages to help further understanding. This curriculum also comes with a teachers binder full of lectures and the answers to the student lessons. This lecture also provides students answers to questions from their studies labeled Notes from the Teacher’s Lesson. At the end of each lesson, students are presented with prompts and questions for them to research and write essays on in order to receive the full extent of the learning experience. Of course, it is possible to conduct the study alone, but students might grasp a better understanding if they complete this study with a class and teacher. The reason for this being that class discussions can help a student delve deeper into what they have just read. The lessons and questions are all quite straightforward without being too obvious. This curriculum has achieved the perfect balance between easy understanding and making one think. Overall, I believe Behold Your God is the perfect curriculum for anyone to gain a better understanding of Christ and grow stronger in their faith."

The 35 lessons are broken down into 6 units of study. The lessons are labeled as chapters in the student book. The units of study are:

The Knowledge of God
The Nature of God
The Attributes of God
The History of God
The Person of God
The Holy Spirit

Each lesson contains a quote, reading that pertains to the specific focus topic, student work which includes looking up scripture and answering questions, notes from the teacher's lecture, and application activities. In chapter 3 Knowing God the quote is:

"To glorify God is to have God-admiring thoughts, to esteem Him most

excellent, and search for diamond in this rock only."

Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity

The student reading takes a lengthy quote from A.W. Tozer's book The Pursuit of God.

The Student Work focuses on Knowing God Involves a Personal Relationship as well as a Personal Fellowship.

The Challenge asks the student, What is your relationship with God? and, What about your fellowship with God?

One of the application activities is for the student to read Chapter 4 in Tozer's The Pursuit of God. Student's are asked to define in their own words what it means to be "otherworldly."

To get a really good idea of what is in each lesson there is a Scope and Sequence that lists the Lesson Topics, Development Activities, and Life Applications for each chapter.

The contents of the Teacher's Manual come in a three-ring binder with sectional dividers. In the manual you will find: