Lock-In / Live-Out
Lock-In / Live-Out The Goals of Our Truth Journals and Lessons
- To help children lock in God’s truth through organized, kinesthetic, and responsive Bible memory.
- To teach children to live out God’s truth through practical daily devotions and weekly Bible lessons that are creative, biblically accurate, and easy to understand.
- To make it simple for families to lock in and live out doctrinal truths together by having children study the same verses, devotions, and lesson topics at the same time.
Lock-In Truth with Scripture Memory
Children have real-life questions. They need more than just the right answers—they need to memorize the Bible verses that provide those answers.
Truth Trackers offers a Scripture memory program that pairs life questions with powerful verse-answers. A child is asked a life question (for example, “Is Jesus Christ God?”), and they respond with the verse-answer:
John 1:1 — “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Our goal is not only to teach doctrinal truth but to help children lock it in through meditation that leads to lasting memorization. That way, when they face a life question, they will know what they believe and why they believe it—because they have the Bible verse hidden in their hearts.
The most powerful biblical way to memorize Scripture is through meditation on God’s Word. That’s why every week, children review their catechism questions and verse-answers using repetition and kinesthetic (hands-on) review.
Live-Out Truth with Devotions
While children are locking in doctrinal truth through Scripture meditation and memorization, they are also learning to live out that truth through daily devotions tied to the same weekly topic.
These devotions help children understand the doctrine they are memorizing and—equally important—show them practical ways to apply it to their everyday lives.
Live-Out Truth with Lessons
Throughout the week, children meditate on their verse and complete their devotions. Then, at the end of the week, they gather for a lesson that thoroughly explains and applies the topic.
The lesson wraps up a meaningful week of meditation-to-memorization and doctrinal study. It equips leaders with creative teaching ideas and gives children clear, practical ways to live out the truth in their daily lives.
We passionately believe that children should have God’s truth locked in their hearts—and know exactly how to live it out every day.
An Example
John is studying the doctrine of God’s Greatness. This week’s topic is “God is all-powerful.”
John locks in this truth by meditating on and reviewing his question and verse every day. At the same time, he learns to live it out through his daily devotions. One morning, he reads a devotion titled “God Can Do Anything He Wants.” In it, John discovers how strong God is and how even a young boy like him can trust God with impossible situations.
At the end of the week, John recites his life question and verse to an adult. The adult asks, “Can God do the impossible?” John responds with the verse he has locked in:
Matthew 19:26 — “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
John then adds up the points he earned from reviewing his verse and completing his devotions, and records them in his Truth Trackers Bank at the front of his book.
Later, at Truth Trackers, John hears a lesson about God’s all-powerful nature. The teacher shares the story of the rich young ruler and concludes: “Boys and girls, after the disciples realized the young man could not get himself to heaven, they wondered who could do the impossible task of getting to heaven. Jesus told them only God can do that impossible task.”
The teacher then applies the truth: “Children, think of someone who needs to be saved. That person cannot save himself—but can God do the impossible? Matthew 19:26 says, ‘With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.’”