The Right Mind: A New Curriculum in Making Disciples that Engages both the Right and Left Brain Learning Styles

Discipleship has been and continues to be a great challenge for many churches. Even when pastors preach and teach every week, the members do not always mature as expected. Sometimes church leaders wonder, “Where have we gone wrong?”
This project addresses this critical need by creating and field testing a new, visually-based teaching curriculum that increases the ability of Bible teaching to mature new believers. This curriculum is both a teaching tool and the teaching material. This tool puts high emphasis on biblical content, especially content relevant to new believers. It aims to give those new in the faith solid, foundational, and sound biblical content that will help them grow and become established, mature believers in Christ. The curriculum is titled The Right Mind because it is designed to engage the right brain in the learning process.
Research indicates almost 75 percent of students learn better when visual content is used. However, most discipleship materials are texts – perhaps with a few diagrams, oriented to left brain learning. Right brain learners, however, gravitate towards visuals, symbols, and colors. The Right Mind seeks to involve both sides of the brain in learning by engaging both sides of the brain, not only the left brain. The ultimate goal of this tool/curriculum is to stop the regress of Christianity in North American churches by enabling believers to engage in a strong and living relationship with Christ, both at the beginning stages of their faith walks and throughout the remainder of their lives.