Unit Description

The third module will address issues that Christians ask as they start growing in their experience with a walk with God. It has to do with their character development as children of God and are “born again.” Devotional and doctrinal development will lead to changed values and attitudes. It is what the Holy Spirit will be doing in the life of Christians who surrender their life to Christ. Consequently, priorities and behaviours will change. This significantly has to do with moral and ethics. Therefore, this module will include topics on what is God’s design for the believers’ life. It will address that Christianity is not a fatalistic religion. God has given humans the power of choice. With this power comes responsibility; people will decide what to do and what not to do, and be held accountable for their actions. Consequently, the Bible will be the plumb- line by which believers will measure their spiritual development. Since Christians believe that God created humans for His pleasure, then it is their responsibility to live according to His design. Consequently, He set standards for mankind to follow. They should follow the pattern that God set in the Bible as their rule for living a holistic lifestyle; loving God and His creation. As a special topic, this unit will address marriage and the home, which is the nucleus of God’s moral and ethical development to society. It will address moral and ethical behaviour of the couple and their children. The topic will emphasise the importance of choosing the right companion and the relationship of the couple before marriage and after. It will also discuss the duties of parent and children and how Christ is to be the centre of the family. The development of the character will prepare Christians to become servants of God in all area of life. This will be the content of the last module. Believers will be involved in their church’s vision and will develop a heart to evangelize and teach them what Christ has thought them. Consequently, an understanding of what the Church is must be understood and will be addressed in the final module.

Competences

At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to: a) Exhibit the need of change in ethical and moral values b) Justify reasons why God’s moral and ethical role are needed in the world today. c) Participate in discussions which show the need for a return to traditional cultural ethos. d) Demonstrate the ability to defend that God has the right to set moral and ethical rules. e) Internalize new behaviors that distingush them as Christians. f) Argue the value of the biblical family and its role in God’s design g) Relates biblical passages regarding the family order and its role to show God’s love to the world. h) Demonstrated the sanctity of the body and why God designed sexuality to be restricted to marriage.

Knowledge and Understanding

At the end of the module/unit the learner will have been exposed to the following: a) Define concepts of God’s design for humans b) Define concepts of biblical Ethics. c) Examine biblical actors that applied or not applied God’s design. d) Identify God’s design in the lives of biblical people e) Describe God’s holistic design to mankind. f) Quote Scripture passages that show why people need to have areas of their character to change. g) Observe the difference from the traditional and postmodern marriages. h) State parent’s duties i) State children’s duties

Judgment Skills

At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the following skills: a) Anaylse the concept of holiness. b) Categorize the behaviours that the Bible declares they need to change. c) Select a number of behavioral activities that seem to dominate the biblical “lists of change.” d) Argue why biblical unethical amd immoral behaviors are labled as sin. e) Analyze the reasons why some Christians do not make a choice to be in God’s design. f) Examine reasons why marriages need to confrom to God’s design. g) Compare the outcomes of a lifestyle that is lived by God’s design with that does not. h) Propose a reason why “examining” one’s faith is impertive to spiritual maturity.

Communication Skills

This section has been made sufficiently open to accommodate both vocational and academic orientations. Applicants can refer to Judgement Skills, or Critical Abilities (critical skills, dispositions, values and actions), or both. a) Write an essay describing the concepts of “character development.” b) Present a Bible study on the highlights of ethical living in the light of God’ design. c) Express the need to transform one’s mind to conform to biblical principles. d) Describe the process of character development starting from the point of conversion. e) Name topics that need to be discussed to point out why humanity need to adapt to Christ’s moral and ethical instructions. f) State boldly why Christians are in fact the light and salt of the earth. g) Discuss the moral of the light and salt analogy. h) Present to the community ethical and moral mores and God designed them.

Specific Learning Skills

a) overturn several attitudes by re- thinking behavioural issues in the light Bible ethics b) question cultural mores in the light of God’s design for humans. c) Overturn “modern” trends of marriage and redefine marriage from God’s standards. d) Develop team-work aptitudes e) Evaluate personal traits in the light of God’s design for the character of mankind also in the light of the biblical perspectives of biblical doctrines (Module 3).

Specific Digital Skills and Compe-

tences

a) practice technological skills such using of word processing and the use of a style and format. b) Communicate by using mobile or tablet social media applications. c) Use of video software to engage peers and instructors.

Hours of Total Learning for this Unit

- 3 Modules - 3 ECTS / ECVET’s

Mode of Learning

• Lectures (Bible classes/sermons) • Workshops • forums • Video • VLE

Character Development