I think I would like to do this catechism during the day. I also think it would help my husband feel a little bit better about all this "religion stuff".. because it might be a familiar concept to him.
That sounds great Michele! Our church uses it for the youngest ones. I was amazed to sit in on their class one day. The teacher sat in a chair beside a chart on the wall. The 4 year old girl sat down in a small chair beside the teacher's and the teacher began with the first question all the way to the newest answer they had learned. She and the other 5 yr old boy were able to recite a long string of the answers perfectly! For the newest one they had just learned, they got to pick out a sticker and put it onto their chart.
I didn't teach my children this since I did't know anything about catechisms when they were small, but I used Spurgeon's Catechism with my middle school boys I taught several years ago when we were still in a Baptist church. Those kids thought it was really cool learning the answers. Here is something I read about Spurgeon teaching the confession and catechism to his church children.
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The Bible and the Content of Spurgeon's Faith One of the deepest convictions of Spurgeon's life was that there is a continuity in the work of God and that continuity centers round the body of truth which lies in Scripture, 'the faith which was once delivered unto the saints'. He believed that at the Protestant Reformation God had restored that body of truth and that it had been summarized in a masterly form in the creeds and catechisms of the Reformers and Puritans. This deposit of saving truth has to be passed on faithfully from one generation to another. The nineteenth-century obsession with originality he regarded as a sin when it was found among the professed custodians of the Word of God. 1 For him the apostle's command was still binding, 'the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also' (2 Timothy 2:2).
In 1855 Spurgeon reprinted the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith--the confession which belongs to the same family as the Westminster Confession--and when the Metropolitan Tabernacle was being built in 1859 he had a copy placed under the foundation stone. Instead of adopting the diluted creeds which marked the last century he held the deposit of doctrine that arose out of the Reformation as a heritage of biblical truth to be preserved and handed on to coming generations. For the same reason he had the children and young people of his congregation taught the shorter catechism of 1647, revised only on the point of baptism. Referring to this fact, he said in 1866: 'The fashion is to laugh at this book and to say it is out of date, and so on. Well, I should like to see someone write a better summary of Scripture doctrine'.2 Similarly, he did not hesitate to tell members that if they did not believe doctrines explicit in the Confession of faith they could not remain members 'with a clear conscience'.1
2 Speeches of C. H. Spurgeon (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1878), p. 64 'Our children who have learned the Westminster Assembly's Confession of Faith", know more about the doctrines of grace and the Bible than hundreds of grown up people who attend a ministry which very eloquently teaches nothing'.MTP, vol. 12, p. 430
From p. 13, 14 Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism by Iain H. Murray
