Process/Purpose

• To study the book of Daniel with an eye for preparing students to successfully walk with God through a life in which non believers and godless patterns of behavior often times heavily influence the cultures in which we live.

• To better understand God’s vision of greatness: helpful love and service – not selfish ambition.

• To understand that it is possible to be both godly and successful in this life.

• To notice that Daniel was more successful than his peers precisely because of his relationship with God.

• To notice Daniel’s trust in God’s word as a reliable source of knowledge that is pertinent to real life: to recognize that faith and science don’t exclude one another, but that God’s word is the first and most reliable authority.

• Also to understand that through our relationship with God and through humility, anyone can live out greatness in God’s Kingdom, that nobody is disqualified.

• To understand God’s love for mankind as those created in His image, and to understand His heart to be reconciled to mankind.

• To notice that through seasons of brokenness, God restores people to the greatness for which He created us all.