Spotting Moralistic Theology

Now, why is this a big deal? Because moralistic theology kind of takes God out of it.

Its goal is to have good character.

We want to have good boys and girls who make good choices.

Godly choices, but it's apart from God.

If you grew up in the whatever's 90s and were a VeggieTales kid, you will know.

Phil Vischer even talks about having regrets.

That's what he did.

He had a moralistic theology approach, you know.

Instead of teaching children to follow Christ and be transformed by him, let's just be good little boys and girls.

We need to give our kids a strong foundation, not wimpy, moralistic theology.

Now, here's my disclaimer.

If you have listened to me for any length of time, you will know that I am not a name it and shame it kind of gal.

So if you are coming here hoping for a list of curriculums that I don't recommend, you're going to be disappointed.

I will, however, equip you with some tools to help you decide is the curriculum that you're using or looking at, is it one that is more moralistic theologically or actually teaching the biblical narrative and grounding kids in the truth of God's word? All right.

Now, why is this a big deal? Because moralistic theology kind of takes God out of it.

Its goal is to have good character.

We want to have good boys and girls who make good choices.

Godly choices, but it's apart from God.

If you grew up in the whatever's 90s and were a VeggieTales kid, you will know.

Phil Vischer even talks about having regrets.

That's what he did.

He had a moralistic theology approach, you know.

Instead of teaching children to follow Christ and be transformed by him, let's just be good little boys and girls.

We need to give our kids a strong foundation, not wimpy, moralistic theology.

Now, here's my disclaimer.

If you have listened to me for any length of time, you will know that I am not a name it and shame it kind of gal.

So if you are coming here hoping for a list of curriculums that I don't recommend, you're going to be disappointed.

I will, however, equip you with some tools to help you decide is the curriculum that you're using or looking at, is it one that is more moralistic theologically or actually teaching the biblical narrative and grounding kids in the truth of God's word? All right.