> Know **what** you believe, and **why** you believe it.
Well-catechized children have a greater understanding of doctrine in general, and the gospel in particular, then probably 95% of evangelical "pastors" in the U.S. today.
What rich resources we've received!
- [First Catechism](https://opc.org/cce/FirstCatechism.html) - for toddlers, the questions and answers start very simple and slowly grow with the child's capacity for both speech and understanding
- [Shorter Catechism](https://opc.org/sc.html) - for children, graduate to this one somewhere between ages 8-12
- [Larger Catechism](https://opc.org/lc.html) - for adults, includes important primary questions like "How do you _know_ there is a God?" and "How do you _know_ the Scriptures to be the Word of God?"
- [Heidelberg Catechism](https://www.ccel.org/creeds/heidelberg-cat.html) - incredibly rich, deeply pastoral, a wonderful compliment to the Westminster standards--good to read "as well as" and not "instead" of
* BTW, if anyone knows where to find a nicely-formatted older version of the Heidelberg online, please send it along. The one at CCEL is clunky. Most sites have the newer version (which I greatly dislike--for stylistic, not doctrinal reasons).
