One Story | One Savior
The Bible tells a single story and at the center of that Story is JESUS. Therefore, it is essential that we take a Christocentric approach to reading and interpreting Scripture.
The below curriculum is designed to be covered in three years, one lesson per week with room for breaks.
Although it was designed for our Sunday morning teaching hour, it is appropriate for individual use as well.
The lessons are geared toward adults/teens with the intent that younger children would be taught by their parents/teacher at an age appropriate level.
It is not an exhaustive study of every passage, but rather a look at key passages that move the Story of God forward.
Unit 1 |
Unit 2 |
Unit 3 |
Unit 4 |
Unit 5 |
Units 6 & 7 |
The Pentateuch |
Old Testament History |
Wisdom Literature |
Major/Minor Prophets |
The Gospels |
Acts, Letters, and Revelation |
The Promise Given Through the Royal Gift Covenant |
The Promise Preserved Through Failed Leadership |
The Promise Pictured Through Israel's Struggle |
The Promise Confirmed Through Israel's Prophets |
The Promise Arrives Through the Woman's Seed |
Acts - The Promise Expands Through the King's Children
Letters - The Promise Explained Through the King's Church
Revelation - The Promise Culminates Through Signs and Wonders
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God is a PROMISE Making God |
God is a PROMISE Protecting God |
God is a PROMISE Caring God |
God is a PROMISE Keeping God |
JESUS is the PROMISE Kept |
God is a PROMISE Completing God |
God 1) CREATES a place where 2) He will MEET with his People 3) for their JOY.
His People reject Him. God binds Himself through Promise (i.e. Royal Gift Covenant) to rescue His people from their sin and restore them to Himself for their Joy. |
God 1) PROVIDES shadow/type rulers who 2) Fail to RESCUE His people, 3) DEFEAT His enemies, and 4) KEEP them in the LAND 5) so that His people would be with Him for their JOY. 6) God, however, shall FULFILL all of His promises in JESUS. |
Through Israel’s Journey, God pictures 1) His DESIGN and DESIRE to 2) RESCUE His people from sin and death through a future 3) KING who will 4) RESTORE them to Himself in the LAND 5) for their JOY. |
God 1) PROMISES a KING who 2) RESCUES His people, 3) DEFEATS His enemies, and 4) RESTORES them to the LAND 5) so that His people shall be with Him for their JOY. |
JESUS is the 1) PROMISED KING who 2) RESCUES His people, 3) DEFEATS His enemies, and 4) RESTORES them to the LAND[?] 5) so that His people shall be with Him for their JOY. |
JESUS as the 1) PROMISED KING has 2) RESCUED His people through His Perfect Law Keeping Life and Sacrificial and Substitutionary Death on the Cross, whereby 3) DEFEATING the enemy of sin and death, and is 4) RESTORING them to the PROMISE LAND of a unified Heaven and Earth where He reigns and abides 5) so that His people shall be with Him forever for their JOY.
Unit 6 = Acts 1-15; early letters through Romans
Unit 7 = Acts 16-28; later letters; Revelation |

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