Last week I shared some illustrated children’s books my kids have loved and learned key gospel truths from as we’ve read them together.

After writing that, I thought to share a few excellent biblical and theological resources to help parents find an easy, yet comprehensive plan to teach and train their kids in the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). See these as a train track that offer you an overarching framework to build for your kids so they can fill it in as they learn more about Scripture from you, their own reading, and your church’s ministry.

3 Discipleship Resources for Kids

1) Truth & Grace Booklets

The Truth and Grace Memory Books (TAG books) are designed to help parents, churches and children’s workers as they commend Christ and His gospel to the coming generation. Three primary ingredients are found in each book: Scripture memory verses, catechism questions and answers, and classic hymns. The student who completes all three books will memorize (along with the catechism and classic Christian hymns) the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, the Lord’s prayer, 1 Corinthians 13, various Psalms (including 119!), plus the list of all the books of the Bible.

2) The New City Catechism

The New City Catechism is a modern catechism (here is an explanation of a catechism and why they’re important) developed to teach the basic tenets of the Christian faith in a structured format, aimed at both children and adults. It follows a question-and-answer format, with 52 questions covering foundational Christian beliefs, designed to be used weekly. It is also accompanied by an app, music, and other resources like videos to engage different learning styles.

3) Tiny Theologians Systematic Theology Workbook

Systematic theology is studying what the whole Bible teaches about a specific topic. Every time you ask, “What does the Bible teach about _______?” You are asking a systematic theology question. This workbook is structured like a systematic theology book, but made especially for your child! Just like systematic theology textbooks, this workbook tackles one theological topic at a time.

Here is the table of contents:

Section One: Introduction

• What is theology?

• What is systematic theology?

• The Biblical story
  

Section Two: Doctrine of God

• God’s Attributes

• The Trinity

• God the Father

• God the Son

• God the Spirit

Section Three: The Gospel

• The Fall

• Doctrine of Mankind

• Death & Resurrection

• Salvation

Section Four: God’s Word and World

• Final Things

• God’s Word

• Sanctification

• The Church

Not only does it cover these essential topics, it does so in a way that breaks down into accessible concepts and including fun activities that engage your child every step of the way. They’ve loads of other excellent resources here.

There are more resources out there. These are great ones to start with.

Disciple Your Kids

Parents, hear this: if you are not discipling your kids, someone else is. Even more, if you don’t have a plan for discipleship, you won’t.

Grab a resource. Talk to your pastor and get help. Just start doing something. You may change how you do it along the way, but don’t not doing it.

If you’d like some ideas on how to actually do this at home, check this out.