It is a Bible curriculum for children aged 7–12 years old that:

• Examines what the Bible is and why it can be believed.

• Introduces children to the God of the Bible and shares His explanation of the meaning and purpose of mankind and life.

• Provides God’s commentary on the history of the world, what is happening now and what will happen in the future.

• Shares the Gospel with the children. The prayer is that the children would place their faith in Christ and become His disciples.

• Teaches them the overarching Bible narrative by taking the journey from Genesis to Revelation.

• Equips them with truth and doctrine arising from the different events of the Bible.

• Arms them with answers to hard questions and apologetics to build a strong foundation so they can push back on the anti-God worldview they are surrounded by.

• Come and See Children’s Edition is primarily for use at home by parents, grandparents and guardians of young children.

• It can also be used in churches and Sunday schools.

1. Disciples of Jesus. Good Bible teachers are those who themselves are disciples of Jesus, and keen students of the Bible. This is what Paul said to young Pastor Timothy:

2 Timothy 2:1–2 (NET)

1 So you, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And what you heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be competent to teach others as well.

Those wanting to teach this series should be faithful and reliable students of the Bible themselves so they can teach sincerely and out of the fullness of their hearts.

This means they need to set aside proper time for Bible study, lesson preparation and prayer for the children. This is especially important because this curriculum is not one that is easy and light. This is intentional as we believe children have great capacity for big truths and benefit from engaging with challenging content that will prepare them to face the various worldviews they will encounter.

We have seen children bored with overly simple content and they end up spiritually malnourished, complacent and arrogant, believing that God and the Bible are not relevant for daily life, and they already know all there is to know. We want to avoid this.

2. Any adult familiar with Come and See or Interlocked would feel right at home teaching the children’s edition. Preparation for teaching therefore includes having gone through Come and See (the main series) or Interlocked. Here are the links to these resources.

• Come and See lesson notes and podcast:

  https://comeandsee.online/

• Interlocked lesson notes and podcast:

  https://interlocked.online/

3. Teachers who are willing to engage with apologetics. This involves being keen to explore challenging questions, investigating them to their own satisfaction, being convinced of the biblical perspective and then teaching them to the children. In order to make the series more relevant to the challenges facing children today, we have built in additional apologetics content not found in the main Come and See series, but can be easily followed in the children’s lesson notes.

This is an important addition to the children’s lessons. Our children are surrounded by the unbelieving worldview and they are constantly being exposed to and taught non-biblical ideas. Many of them uncritically absorb it into their thinking and beliefs. This is what the Bible says.

Proverbs 18:17 (NLT)

The first to speak in court sounds right—

until the cross-examination begins.

Instead of allowing the non-biblical worldview to have first capture of our children’s minds, this series will introduce more complex apologetics topics to the children. We will teach the children how to “cross-examine”, meaning to question and think through the issues. We want to build up their capacity to evaluate and challenge ideas that go against the Bible and to stand firm on the biblical worldview.

This means that teachers will need to be courageous and not be afraid of dealing with hard topics and uncomfortable questions. And if faced with other believers including parents of the children who might have other thoughts, be patient, calm and kind, able to respectfully present the teaching but also trusting in the Holy Spirit to minister and guide these other believers as they too study out the different topics.

The entire study has been broken up into approximately 20-minute blocks. This is to provide flexibility for home and church use. Parents and churches who only have 20-minutes to teach a session can use one block. If their children are able to take a 40 minute lesson or Sunday school teaching time is 40 minutes, they can teach two blocks. This means that the number of sessions will vary for different use cases.

In addition, we encourage teachers to teach at the pace of the children, rather than prioritise finishing the series in a fixed course of time. The priority should be to teach each topic as completely, clearly, carefully and slowly as necessary. This adds to the variability of the lesson length.

The lessons are free-of-charge. As this series is still a work-in-progress, you may temporarily download them for your use using this link.

Eventually, Come and See Children’s Edition will be licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This means you will be able to use and distribute the lessons for non-commercial purposes only. You cannot sell nor edit them.