Lifelong learning outcomes are aligned with curriculum outcomes to adapt as needed. Refer students back to this throughout the unit to see how their learning fits together.
God is a relational God, and from the beginning, there was a deep relationship between God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He then created humans for a deep relationship with Himself and with each other. There was shalom (deep peace) with God, with each other, and within ourselves (Gen 1:26–2:25).
However, humans sinned and broke those deep, open relationships. They blamed each other and became self-conscious around each other (Gen 3:6–10).
Students can discover that God has shown a way to rebuild communities through knowing Jesus, who brings a life of shalom. Statistics are a powerful tool that we can use towards building such communities, which, one day, will be perfected with the New Heaven and the New Earth! (Eph. 2:13-22; Is. 9:6-7; Rev. 21,22)
“For Christ himself has bought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us…
Ephesians 2:14, 19b NLT
You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family.”