Background Information on CIBS

Children’s Inductive Bible Studies (CIBS) began with a need to teach my own children how to study the Bible firsthand. As I taught an adult Precept class, I wrote corresponding lessons for my 1st and 3rd grade daughters. Other parents became interested, and God opened the door for these lessons to become workbooks. The Know & Grow in 2 Timothy study was first presented at the Christian Home Educators Conference in Denver, CO in June 1994.

Since that first conference, we have attended 50 home school and church conferences around the country. A second study, Know & Grow in Understanding God was introduced in 1995. Individuals from 3rd grade through adult; families, private schools and churches have used these studies to effectively teach people how to study and know God’s Word.

Our goal is to equip students with the basic tools to read and understand God’s Word firsthand. This is accomplished by teaching the inductive method of study, given to us in God’s Word (knowledge, understanding, and wisdom). Each lesson of each study has 5 days of work (@15-20 minutes each day). The first four days introduce a tool of study to dig out the facts from the text, and begin to understand those facts in context. The focus of the last day is personal application of the truths learned. Tools are introduced gradually, and reviewed frequently.