Eight and Nine Year Olds

• Feel love and reverence for God.

• Know that God loves them.

• Have a growing understanding of what the Bible says about right and wrong ways to think, feel and act.

• Recognize that they need God’s help to do that which is right and good.

• Begin to realize the fact that the wrong things they do are sins against God.

• Grow in their understanding of what it means to forgive and that

• God wants to forgive them when they do wrong.

• Know that Jesus came to earth and died so that any person might

• receive God’s forgiveness and salvation from sin.

• Understand that they receive God’s forgiveness by turning from

• their sin and by praying for forgiveness.

• Realize that becoming a Christian means that one turns from sin and asks God to forgive all their sins and to become the Lord of their life.

• Understand that a person becomes a Christian by trusting Jesus – not by being baptized and joining the church or by simply trying to be good.