In the church we used to teach the Christian Faith in the form of a catechism. That's a question and answer format which when learned gives basic answers to basic questions about Christian belief and living a Christian life. The catechism was meant to be memorized like the multiplication table, so that at least some of life's questions might have answers as quickly as we know 2x2=4. Interestingly, the latest General Assembly has proposed writing a new Catechism to help us to ask the right questions and find the right answers to living life as God intends it to be lived.
The larger Catechism, found in the Book of Confessions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has as its first question, the first thing to learn about how to live, this question: "What is the chief and highest end of man?" …