Sample Student
3rd grade · age 9 · tier T2
A Catechism for Boys and Girls
The simplified Particular Baptist children's catechism (Grace Baptist Church, Carlisle, PA lineage). Short answers suited to oral recitation from age 4. This is the primary catechism for Tiers 0-2.
Who made you?
What else did God make?
Why did God make you and all things?
How can you glorify God?
Why ought you to glorify God?
Are there more gods than one?
In how many persons does this one God exist?
Who are they?
Who is God?
Where is God?
Can you see God?
Does God know all things?
Can God do all things?
Where do you learn how to love and obey God?
Who wrote the Bible?
Who were our first parents?
Of what were our first parents made?
What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?
Have you a soul as well as a body?
How do you know that you have a soul?
What is your soul?
In what condition did God make Adam and Eve?
Did Adam and Eve stay holy and happy?
What was the sin of our first parents?
Why did they eat the forbidden fruit?
Who tempted them to this sin?
What happened to our first parents when they had sinned?
What effect did the sin of Adam have on all mankind?
What do we inherit from Adam as a result of this original sin?
What is sin?
What is meant by transgression?
What does every sin deserve?
Do we know what God requires of us?
How many commandments did God give on Mt. Sinai?
What are the ten commandments sometimes called?
What do the first four commandments teach?
What do the last six commandments teach?
What is the sum of the ten commandments?
Who is your neighbor?
Is. God pleased with those who love and obey him?
Is God pleased with those who do not love and obey him?
What is the first commandment?
What does the first commandment teach us?
What is the second commandment?
What does the second commandment teach us?
What is the third commandment?
What does the third commandment teach us?
What is the fourth commandment?
What does the fourth commandment teach us?
What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?
Why is it called the Lord’s Day?
How should the Sabbath be kept?
What is the fifth commandment?
What does the fifth commandment teach us?
What is the sixth commandment?
What does the sixth commandment teach us?
What is the seventh commandment?
What does the seventh commandment teach us?
What is the eighth commandment?
What does the eighth commandment teach us?
What is the ninth commandment?
What does the ninth commandment teach us?
What is the tenth commandment?
What does the tenth commandment teach us?
Can any man keep these ten commandments?
Of what use are the ten commandments to us?
Does God condemn all men?
What is a covenant?
What is the covenant of grace?
What did Christ undertake in the covenant of grace?
Did our Lord Jesus Christ ever sin?
How could the Son of God suffer?
What is meant by the atonement?
For whom did Christ obey and suffer?
What kind of life did Christ live on earth?
What kind of death did Christ die?
Who will be saved?
What is it to repent?
What is it to believe in Christ?
How were godly persons saved before the coming of Christ?
How did they show their faith?
What did these sacrifices represent?
How is Christ a prophet?
Why do you need Christ as a prophet?
How is Christ a priest?
Why do you need Christ as a priest?
How is Christ a King?
Why do you need Christ as a king?
What did God the Father undertake in the covenant of grace?
What is election?
What is justification?
What is righteousness?
Can anyone be saved by his own righteousness?
What is adoption?
What is sanctification?
Is this process of sanctification ever complete in this life?
What hinders the completion of sanctification in this life?
Since we are by nature sinful, how can one ever desire to beholy and to gain heaven where God lives?
Who can change a sinner’s heart?
What did the Holy Spirit undertake in the covenant of Grace?
What is regeneration?
Can you repent and believe in Christ by your own power?
How does the Holy Spirit baptize believers?
How does the Holy Spirit seal believers?
How can you receive the Holy Spirit?
What is prayer?
In whose name should we pray?
What has Christ given to teach us how to pray?
Can you repeat the Lord’s Prayer?
How many petitions are there in the Lord’s Prayer?
What is the first petition?
What do we pray for in the first petition?
What is the second petition?
What do we pray for in the second pptition?
What is the third petition?
What do we pray for in the third petition?
What is the fourth petition?
What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
What is the fifth petition?
What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
What is the sixth petition?
What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
How does the Holy Spirit bring us to salvation?
How can we know the Word of God?
What is a church?
What two ordinances did Christ give to his Church?
Why Did Christ give these ordinances?
What is Baptism?
What is the purpose of baptism?
Who are to be baptized?
Should babies be baptized?
What is the Lord’s Supper?
What does the bread represent?
What does the wine represent?
Who should partake of the Lord’s Supper?
Did Christ remain in the tomb after his Crucifixion?
Where is Christ now?
Will Christ come again?
What happens to men when they die?
Will the bodies of the dead be raised to life again?
What will happen to the wicked in the day of judgment?
What is hell?
What will happen to the righteous in the day of judgement?
In light of these truths, what should you do?
Source: https://founders.org/library/section-1-catechism-for-girls-and-boys/