1. Discipleship Across the Lifespan
Trinity International University
Class #3b

3. Moral Development

4. Definition of Terms
Faith
Morals
Values

5. A Great Gulf Knowing what is right Doing what is right
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do, and does not do it, to him it is sin. (James 4:17)
Knowing what is right
Doing what is right
A Great Gulf

6. A Great Gulf Knowing what is right Doing what is right
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish. (Romans 7:18-19)
Knowing what is right
Doing what is right
A Great Gulf

7. A Great Gulf Knowing what is right Doing what is right
How do we bridge the gap?

8. What approaches have you seen to be less than adequate?
Knowing what is right
Doing what is right
A Great Gulf
What approaches have you seen to be less than adequate?

9. Center for Moral Development Harvard
Lawrence Kohlberg
Center for Moral Development
Harvard

10. Stages of Moral Development
Stage 6: Universal Ethical
Principles
Stage 5: Social Contract & Individual
Rights: Greatest good
Stage 4: Social Systems & Conscience
Law & Order Morality
Stage 3: Mutual Interpersonal Expectations
Good boy / nice girl
Stage 2: Self-Interest Orientation
What’s in it for me?
Stage 1: Heteronomous Morality – External only
How can I avoid punishment?

11. Stages of Moral Development
Stage 6: Universal Ethical
Principles
Focus upon
Individuals
(Post conventional)
Stage 5: Social Contract & Individual
Rights: Greatest good
Stage 4: Social Systems & Conscience
Law & Order Morality
Focus upon
Society
(Conventional)
Stage 3: Mutual Interpersonal Expectations
Good boy / nice girl
Stage 2: Self-Interest Orientation
What’s in it for me?
Ego-centric
(Pre-conventional)
Stage 1: Heteronomous Morality – External only
How can I avoid punishment?

12. Stages of Moral Development
Love the Lord
Focus upon
Individuals
(Post conventional)
Love your neighbor
as yourself
Because God said so &
He is to be obeyed
Focus upon
Society
(Conventional)
Christians are called to be
a holy people
Health, Wealth, & Prosperity
preaching
Ego-centric
(Pre-conventional)
Hell, fire, & damnation preaching
Repent or else!

13. Stages of Moral Development
Love
Love the Lord
Focus upon
Individuals
(Post conventional)
Love your neighbor
as yourself
Gratitude &
Obligation
Because God said so &
He is to be obeyed
Focus upon
Society
(Conventional)
Christians are called to be
a holy people
Fear
Health, Wealth, & Prosperity
preaching
Ego-centric
(Pre-conventional)
Hell, fire, & damnation preaching
Repent or else!

14. Focus upon Individuals
(Post conventional)
Christian groups that have numerous rules and regulations will actually hinder the liberation of their people into postconventional thinking. ― Perry Downs, Pg 106.
Focus upon
Society
(Conventional)
Ego-centric
(Pre-conventional)

16. Faith Development

17. James W. Fowler Six Stages of Faith
Director of the Center for Research in Faith & Moral Development, Emory University
Six Stages of Faith

18. Stages of Faith Development
Stage 6: Universalizing Faith Transforming process
Stage 5: Conjunctive Faith
Awareness of perspective
Stage 4: Individual/Reflective Faith
Focus upon personal faith
Stage 3: Synthetic/Conventional Faith
Commitment to church & leaders
Stage 2: Mythic/Literal Faith: Childhood
Limited to concrete thinking
Stage 1: Intuitive/Projective Faith: Early Childhood
Images & Stories

19. What is the place of the Holy Spirit in this process?
Stage 6: Universalizing Faith Transforming process
Stage 5: Conjunctive Faith
Awareness of perspective
Stage 4: Individual/Reflective Faith
Focus upon personal faith
Stage 3: Synthetic/Conventional Faith
Commitment to church & leaders
Stage 2: Mythic/Literal Faith: Childhood
Limited to concrete thinking
Stage 1: Intuitive/Projective Faith: Early Childhood
Images & Stories

20. How have you seen aspects of these stages in your own life?
Stage 6: Universalizing Faith Transforming process
Stage 5: Conjunctive Faith
Awareness of perspective
Stage 4: Individual/Reflective Faith
Focus upon personal faith
Stage 3: Synthetic/Conventional Faith
Commitment to church & leaders
Stage 2: Mythic/Literal Faith: Childhood
Limited to concrete thinking
Stage 1: Intuitive/Projective Faith: Early Childhood
Images & Stories

22. Components in Growth

23. The Role of the Teacher

24. The primary role of the teacher is to serve the needs of this student
Agree or Disagree?
The primary role of the teacher is to serve the needs of this student

25. When God wanted to communicate with us, He wrapped His message in a person. We are called to do the same thing.

26. Your teaching will always have one of two results in the lives of your students…
Contamination
Innoculation

27. The goal of the teacher is to make the student self-sustaining.
You want to bring your students to the place where you are unnecessary to the process of their spiritual growth.

28. The Role of the Curriculum

29. A planned strategy designed to produce…
The Lesson Plan
A planned strategy designed to produce…
Exposure
Encounter
Application

30. Exposure Encounter Experience Gives knowledge
Gives insight & conviction
Facilitates decision & behavior
What does the Bible say?
How will I convey it to my students?
How will it change their lives?
Biblical Principles
The Event
People & where they live

31. Teaching Methods Role Playing Questions & Answers Audio-Visual
Story telling
Lecture
Drama

32. Point of Contact Entice the attention of your students
They do not come ready to learn
Your job is to stimulate the desire to learn

33. If the Scriptures are central, then make them central

34. The purpose of your teaching is more that the mere impartation of trivia

35. The Role of the Student

36. People learn best when they are actively involved in the learning process

37. Teaching is to be defined, not as what the teacher does, but by what the student learns.

38. I am primarily and continually a student
You may stop taking classes, but you will never stop learning.

39. Seven Laws of Learning
Law of previous experience: New learning should be linked to (and build upon) the experiences of the learner.
Law of relevance: Effective learning is relevant to the live of the learner.
Law of expectations: A learner’s ability to learn will be affected by his expectations.
Law of active learning: Active responding produces more effective learning than passive listening or reading.

40. Seven Laws of Learning
Law of practice and feedback: Learners cannot master skills without repeated practice and relevant feedback.
Law of individual differences: Different people learn in different ways.
Law of emotional learning: Events that are accompanied by intense emotions result in long-lasting learning.

41. The problem of motivation involves overcoming initial inertia
It is always easier to steer a moving object

42. The Role of the Holy Spirit

43. 1 Corinthians 3:1-3
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to babes in Christ. 2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?