"Helping Kids Apply Biblical Truth" powerpoint presentation from LifeWay's VBS 2010 Preview Event.

1. Helping Kids Apply Bible Truth

2. Helping Kids Apply Bible Truths What is it like to be a child today?

3. Helping Kids Apply Bible Truths With all that children are faced with today, the truth is they still need Jesus. We have the responsibility of equipping parents and children to hear God’s Word, know God’s Word, and do (apply) God’s Word.

8. Helping Kids Apply Bible Truths Salvation Spiritual Transfor-mation

11. Helping Kids Apply Bible Truths Hear God’s Word As kids learn to trust parents and teachers, they listen and hear God’s Word.

17. LifeSpan Spiritual Development Know God’s Word Kids begin to know God’s Word as they understand and comprehend biblical concepts .

18. LifeSpan Spiritual Development But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing those from whom you learned, and that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:14-15 (HCSB)

19. LifeSpan Spiritual Development Knowing about God’s Word is not the same as knowing God and His Truth.

26. LifeSpan Spiritual Development Do What God’s Word Says Kids exhibit a personal understanding of Bible truth as they do God’s Word by applying it to their everyday lives, including using Bible skills and becoming involved in ministry.

27. LifeSpan Spiritual Development But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer , he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror; for he looks at himself, goes away, and right away forgets what kind of man he was. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts—this person will be blessed in what he does. James 1:22-25 (HCSB)