Before choosing specific studies for your students, you will need to evaluate where your students are spiritually. A well-taught discipleship class cannot help your students grow in Christ if they are not spiritually ready to deal with truth God is showing them. Younger students may struggle with some of the requirements of longer studies developed for teens. However, this is not a reason to neglect challenging younger students to dive deeper beneath the surface level of Sunday School.
Any of the Vital Truth studies (four sessions) will help this age group deal with the basic doctrines essential to their faith development. Likewise, Vital Skills,(four sessions), will help younger students understand and develop essential skills and practices inherent to Christian growth. Vital Character (four sessions) will help them deal with character traits they need to develop as they grow in their faith. To learn more about the Vital Series resources:
www.Lifeway.com/Article/vital-series-student-ministry-strategy
Also available are a variety of studies that are four to six sessions long. Some require a small amount of daily study, so you will need to evaluate whether your younger teens are ready for this challenge. We have provided a short list of some studies to consider:
• Share Jesus Without Fear www.Lifeway.com/product/001052535/
• Souled Out www.Lifeway.com/product/001244959/
• Leap www.Lifeway.com/product/005189807/