The aim of teaching a Become More Like Jesus and Prepare for Heaven Sunday School class is to encourage and enable adult students to live the Togethers of Scripture in their Christian Inner Circles of close believing friends and family members. The Togethers require growth in a Christian’s spirit that creates more and more Christlikeness. Most important is that this will bring more glory to God, as worship is reflecting back to God His own character.
The class is based on the Preparing for Heaven: Building the Eternal Phase of Your Life curriculum at HeavenBeckons.com. Class members will have homework each week and that will be listening a couple of times to the applicable podcast (the next week's focus) at HeavenBeckons.com. Since there are 52 weeks in a year but 65 Togethers plus the crucial introductory material, there are 15 extra sessions listed on the syllabus that can be used for an extra quarter of the Sunday School class if desired.
Print out the 2-page syllabus and hand out copies to class members as well as use it for the order of your teaching. (click here to bring up the pdf file to print)
During each class the teacher can give a 20-minute motivational summary of the podcast(s) for that week, supplementing with anything from the longer explanations found at ChristiansTogether.org if so wished. The rest of the class should be in groups of 2 or 3 discussing and implementing the Together of focus. Encourage close friends and relatives who see each other out of church at least once a week or so to become a separate group. Husbands and wives can be their own group.
The class is based on the Preparing for Heaven: Building the Eternal Phase of Your Life curriculum at HeavenBeckons.com. Class members will have homework each week and that will be listening a couple of times to the applicable podcast (the next week's focus) at HeavenBeckons.com. Since there are 52 weeks in a year but 65 Togethers plus the crucial introductory material, there are 15 extra sessions listed on the syllabus that can be used for an extra quarter of the Sunday School class if desired.
Print out the 2-page syllabus and hand out copies to class members as well as use it for the order of your teaching. (click here to bring up the pdf file to print)
During each class the teacher can give a 20-minute motivational summary of the podcast(s) for that week, supplementing with anything from the longer explanations found at ChristiansTogether.org if so wished. The rest of the class should be in groups of 2 or 3 discussing and implementing the Together of focus. Encourage close friends and relatives who see each other out of church at least once a week or so to become a separate group. Husbands and wives can be their own group.
If a church wants make this high priority, it can kick off with a Friday Night Introduction covering the three introductory podcasts at HeavenBeckons.com that explain and motivate spiritual change through significant relationships between believers.
the Initial Podcast at the home page of HeavenBeckons.com
Critical Information about Preparing for Heaven (Course One, Track 4a)
Foundations (Course 1, Track 4b)
Beef up those three podcasts with what is written in the longer text explanations at ChristiansTogether.org of the “Preface and Introduction” and Chapters 1-5.