What’s Up: Discovering the Gospel, Jesus, and Who You Really Are (Student Guide)

Publishers Description

Have you ever asked a middleschool kid you know whats 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?

Whats Up? is a flexible middleschool curriculum workbook using illustrations, stories, and interactive activities to help kids understand why the gospel really is good news. A practical application of Klumpenhowers bestselling Show Them Jesus, Whats Up answers the real questions of identity and purpose that begin to unfold in middleschool hearts and minds. Revealing Gods love, forgiveness, and power to change, Whats Up? helps fourth through eighthgrade 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 middleschool age students in discovering Jesus through fifteen 90minute lessons that can be expanded to cover twentyseven weeks. The student guide offers ageappropriate activities, fun illustrations, questions to think about, and personal application activities for home. Teachers will find easyto understand instructions and notes, helps and directions to make teaching the gospel to children clear and simple in the corresponding teacher guide. Whats Up? is easily adapted to a wide variety of group settings, including Sunday school, youth group, Christian school, and homeschool.

Features:

• Practically applies the gospelcentered teaching philosophy outlined in Klumpenhowers bestselling Show Them Jesus to a middle school context.
• Intentionally flexible, Whats Up? can be used with middleschool kids in small groups, Sunday school, or even one-on-one discipleship settings at home or church.
• Provides 15 90-minute lessons or 26 45-minute lessons.
• Middle schoolers learn by engaging, so Whats Up? keeps kids interacting with the Bible and with one another.
• Whats Up? is for churched and unchurched kids alike since it allows them to read the stories before guiding them deeper, providing new insights, and driving biblical truth home in personal ways.
• This curriculum gets personal. Whats Up? is about sharing lives and watching Christ change people from the inside out.
• Student Guide is filled with ageappropriate activities, fun illustrations, questions to think about, and personal application activities for home.
• Teacher Guide offers easytounderstand 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.