Grade 10 - Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

Sunday School Curriculum Grade 10
We get the Christian conduct
We study the Holy Bible so that we may know our duty towards the people and ourselves. In
it we find the Ten Commandments, the sermon on the mountain and the parables that the Lord
gave for Christian conduct. Through the Bible we know that all the people are brothers to us
as we call the heavenly Father ―Our Father‖.
We learn how to love all the members of Christ‟s body
It explains to us the Christian man‘s obligations towards the family, fathers, sons, and sisters
and towards one another. We find this in the words of the Lord and in the epistles of the holy
apostles.
We learn how to live in holiness
It refines humanity, refines instincts and honors the dignity of man, wherever the Bible is,
there exists the enlightened humanity that respects and considers the truth, freedom,
constitution and virtue.
Our heavenly spiritual food
It is our spiritual food in our daily life (Psalm 119:105)
―Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path‖.
―Your words were found and I ate them‖.
The Commandment is a lamp, the law is a light and the water that the Lord Jesus gives us, i.e.
His word is the source of our life ―each one who drinks of it never thirsts‖, as the Lord said to
the Samaritan woman.
II. How to Read the Holy Bible?
With the spirit of need
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied, but those
who are proud are sent away without being given anything.
With the spirit of respect and awe
It is the voice of God and God speaks to us through it so we have to give it awe (Study how
awe was expressed when the Lord spoke to Moses in the Old Testament).
With the spirit of prayer
It is a spiritual book and only spiritual people understand the demands of the Spirit of God but
those concerned with the flesh do not understand.
With the spirit of persistence
It is not enough to read the text once then to neglect reading for some days. We have to be
persistent in studying and contemplating.
With the spirit of being ready to carry out
As of what use is reading and the words turn to judge us. (An example of obedience and
practical carrying out - The great saint Abba Anthony).
III. Evidence of the Unity of the Bible
Although it contains 73 books, 46 (39 main books plus 7 Second Canonical books removed by
Protestants) in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament and more than forty writers
from all parts of the world over nearly two thousand years, yet we feel that it is one book as
God inspires it. It contains a variety of writings, stories, tales, biographies, poems and
proverbs, but as a whole it concentrates on one message from the beginning till the end and it
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