What is Christian Religious Education?

What is Christian Religious Education?IntroductionChristian religious pedagogy is defined as the process where by Christian learning takes place. It frequently involves t any(prenominal)(prenominal) which alters pr momenticing Christians to adopt and deepen their Christian belief, values and dispositions to realise and act in a Christian way. It depends to a neater extent on how this process is adopted and charged in incompatible church grammatical constructiones.Different practices in Christian education in topical anaesthetic churchesAt some degree of receivedty that tout ensemble Christian churches have a similar aims and practices. The liturgical aspect is of paramount importance in the Trinitarian belief and practices in that it serves as introduction to what Christianity is all near. This is where the process of Cognitive learning takes places it involves the worship service where hymns atomic number 18 sang, slightons extracted from the sustains of the boo k of account are read, sermon often punctuated with exhortation, admonishment and instruction in righteous living is delivered and prayers are said. It as well involves the celebration of the holy Eucharist which Jesus Christ himself, recognized as the head of the church, initiated based on experience acquired in the worship service, it can be seen as Christian religious education is a confessional churchly exertion of evangelism, instruction and nurture.I assure that offspring are the most critical of all critics when it comes to worship. Today, common inhabitants do pray and accept the holiness in church for Christ which they are sensible that Christ constitutes the sacred bread and wine, entirely do non entirely act upon worshipping and fail to acquaint the thoughts and feelings to masses which would spread dignity of godliness among selves. The moral lies in the fact that this creates lackness to chain of mountains spiritual beliefs by dint of worship and liturgy resul ting in declination the doctrine which affects the divine temperament approaching positivity.Christian education is a vital important part in juvenility development. For Christian education to be explored, generation of today should be brought into contact by various practices. In the early centuries, reformers emphasized and trusted honest faith and doctrines, to change and reform demeanour as the plainly solution for salvation in Christian education. Christian school movements prove a take exception as a messenger to convey gods inclined mission and honour god.Traditional approachThis approach was practiced since many decades and is still continued to be practiced which helps in binding and governing the ethics and morality inwardly the religion and belief. Since beginning described, in leaving our homeland to teach the gospels through and throughout the universe of discourse through scriptures, god conveyed his mess age by sending his son Jesus for us, the Holy Spirit , the Holy Church, and Baptism for building unity.Christianity consists of three things Religious faith, way of liveliness and community of man resistant towards salvation are most important. The most vital of all belief vaticinateed is that in that respect is plainly one god. The term Christian does non imply on the fact that a Christian should grow up in a Christian community, save precisely accepts Christian faith and belief, follows and leads the pass of life on which Jesus walked on and dress man large-minded accept Christian community through involvement and participation physically and mentally, as a result, traditional approach is how the local churches and preachers go about conducting their services. The apostles creed was apparently developed to summarize the Christian doctrine for man who baptised himself.Theological and scriptural approachThis approach is regarded as an abstract discipline which teaches what record is written. It is the study of god expressi ng gods thought. The movement of bible indicates the doctrines to the kerygma to didache, to theological ethics, to revealed truth, to the way of living in Christian community.Gods salvation to the military man, worshipping the holy spirit, baptizing people in the name of god, preaching gospels as the word of god, share Christs cause body and blood as bread and wine in holy communion, repenting and confessing gods for depictness etc are the concepts of theological and biblical excogitation to Christian education. Even though man configuration is awake(predicate) exactly fail to involve due to the increase wicked and greed.The service is moldd to accept the call of god and to love him and separates and which aims to gather people to worship him in return allowing him to take control over the world and through his presence spread peace, righteousness, skilfulice, joy and helps in the growing of the life in an individual through increased faith.Activities organized and perfor med in several(predicate) local churches through to these practicesSome churches develop the initiative of the worshippers by confessing their faith in the words of the apostle creed. Each activity is correlated and composes a range of varied elements. Their new activities reflect the lives of an individual and drive them for a intention through various numbers of activities to attain a better quality of life.Due to activities, all age group gain variety of skills through many spiritual centred activities. Church acts as an interpreter amongst god and the worshippers to prolong in training the composition of these activities which are far more complex to pull in a disturbed young. They have to thitherby standardize their curriculum and activities in regards to implement it. Different denominations organize activities to resolve the aim then(prenominal) to meet the need of the spring chicken. Curriculum should be more focused than just on providing knowledge.Activities are ne cessarily planned to build spring chicken commitment. I believe it is necessary to reach them, i.e. train them to be strong future leaders. They should be kept one step ahead, for their life is precise challenging. I believe that the best way to outreach jejunenesss mind is to be a youth comparable them to get word their psychology as it differs from every individual. The same activities do get affected as the youth is choosy and subtle.Changing activities for tomorrow here(predicate) the skepticism is voiced that, what substantial change can be brought isolated from the current activities to eradicate the higher up upcoming and dynamic problems in nature with respect to behavioural attention or of what medication of healing would reverse out.I would comment, the activities in the practices should be expanded and conduct similarly programmes workshops on educating purity before marriage, sex, child abuse, exploitation, rape, adultery, adolescence sex, teenage mothers, dr ugs addiction, aids, and divorce. Workshops, seminars for sex, abuse, fellow mentoring, identifying pr pointtive measures instead of curative measures targeting the social, governmental and the economical factors would be effective for incorporating the overall issues to stimulate the insight of the good and vile sides of every consequence, banter on essential real life skills. Our goal is to create world changers, inviting the sacrifiers of evil and giving and share healthy priorities to save ourselves and the world, before it go aways a terrible fate and a debt for our own selves.As the world is in unsafe fists of crime, terrorism, corruption, violence, youth have been diverted to a fast-paced and expects instant opportunities. Perhaps, the approaches of these local activities tend to be helpful and may bring positive results only I still feel that there is something missing, to monitor the youth from within. In an article Practical The Role of the Full-Time youth Past or in the Local Church, by Graeme Codrington, Denomination Baptist (All), submitted on, May 18, 1997, states that, In a world that is so busy, and demands so oftenmagazines of all of its inhabitants, young people need a secure environment, where they can experiment and decide who they neediness to be. They need signifi hawk people to be there to help them through this process. They need role postures to follow.supra statement eventually satisfies the fact that these folks are craving for gracious support socially and for stimulation. boilers suit factors which conglomerate are peers, parents, teachers, church members and Christian community. All factors rely on one common suffer which constitutes leadership. Ironically, most youth do run across the surrounding factors but the factors themselves become tough unknowingly that they cant quite control the situation which then becomes too late to recover. The task is questioned commonly as what kind of leader a person should be to prove creditability and capability to influence the youth to pursue the mode towards god? In an article again stated by, Graeme Codrington, Denomination Baptist (All), Practical The Role of the Full-Time spring chicken Pastor in the Local Church, submitted on, May 18, 1997, Young people are not just low adults (cf. Elkind 198418). They are complex individuals who are battling to deal with the awesome transformation of their bodies, minds, and emotions. They are in a time of transition and harvest-time, developing from the birthed bundle of potential to a fully integrated, functional member of society. The church is in a unique position to assist in this process. Church as a role model fosters spiritual ingathering in every youth making them trusty to participate in Christian faith she is a sign for an entrance of the gods kingdom to the world of salvation, repentance, justice and peace to bring equality. She struggles securely and performs her duties wholly and solemnly remi nds parents to structure their offsprings life in Christian formation.Church members acting as supporters, preach to establish and to promote a platform and share to encourage several types of civic, pagan, religious educational associations. In an article by Arthur capital of Minnesota Boer What essential a Pastor know? Reflection on congregational studies defines on writer throng Hopewells statement saying beyond the embarrassment. He has in like manner observed that churches are sometimes chagrined by the change of hypocrisy and lament that they cannot measure upto ideals of Christian community. Writer James Hopewell referred by Arthur Paul Boer notes that Christian leaders are incharge and build a church thereby work up in hypocrites. I observe practically that, though the world is changing, church strategy is also changing in complementing the growth. It still targets the set mission. Even though, somewhere in the corner hypocrites do exist but church leaders aim to find out what is the outcome in the people from the traditional, theological and biblical practices.Perhaps according my research, I suggest they experiment bringing out good approaches to youths growth. Instead of the current activities followed in churches I would want to suggest the approach can be focused to bring in the outcome irrespective to exploration and innovation of ideas and thoughts for internal and external behaviour of an individual related to the surroundings around him, intensify of commitments to the teaching, provide opportunities to analyse socially and theologically and viewing his life in a theological manner. To build a framework of an activity consist of to have an experience like us, to backbone new boundaries by exploring new links to every Christian among themselves and to god across social and cultural boundaries.In addition, exploration and inventive programmes can be executed to judge youths spirituality. Daily opportunities resulting in disorientation gets support through mission of god. Integration conceptual activities also can help in building and to capture a born leader. Church leader serves them as task leaders in the eroding and freeing the task of a disconnected mind by planning tactics and dividing the burden of others through consultation. As the draw a bead on is commitment, to serve the lost, skill based leadership formation training programmes can be organized to develop an effective leader so as to sustain the capability and capacity of the leader to solve the complaints lies in the dimensions of the ability. Workshops on intersections to shape boundaries of an individual and communities through theological and biblical language, symbols, and rituals to attain certain centered objectives.As growth of globalization is tremendous, these leaders come across and typesetters case new opportunities and challenges. I believe they help in building an integral performance in conducting entrepreneurial business-based activ ities, describing the activities because youths mind is business-oriented, therefore the activities are to be structured keeping business in mind involving biblical and theological approaches with the actual resources for a business oriented youth. They tend to produce facilitate management sources to sustain and develop faith and love. When the youth develops a church from within, he provide be able to observe and analyse the holistic environment.The activities require presence of not only church members but also worshippers for youth development in successful implementation of these practices. Some worshippers form in weensy groups, some large varied to wake culture. Arthur Paul Boer also examines simultaneously that when a group of pastors were having service of congregation, one among them exclaimed in deep schnorkel It showed me Im not alone. So often in our churches we berate ourselves for problems we face not enough men, too some youth, preponderance of a certain race o r culture. He is clear with the fact that a mavin person fails, unity increases strength. We ourselves outpouring birth to a problem and then strive hard to face it because as there are few leaders left to catch a grip to support a large community. Due to less number of youth, less support is light upond to sustain the laws and policies of the church and unavailing to accomplish gods mission. It is not only one who contributes but many. Above mentioned statement It showed me Im not alone expresses that each race and culture form their own group build scummy churches for their own community within their own boundaries, where god expects togetherness, wholeness. It requires lot of efforts to help small churches grow whereas large church with mass constituent grows as their already exist efforts in large numbers which take over the chained actions for development. Whether whizz church group or many, big or small, the development is important.On this contradiction, I would sugges t that this also includes that in small group the development is paid more attention and given a contiguous eye, problems are spotted quickly and easily to meet the challenges. No matter how large or small challenges occur, the way we approach it is unique and comprehensive as this brings out effects of development in the youth. Whereas in large it becomes difficult to assist as there are more than one individuals. Due to small groups according to races and culture, differentiation exists. simply the important criterion is group commitment and work effort in all sets of practice for congregations in any race or culture for a healthy youth so that to accomplish gods mission. As a result both objectives are co-related to each other.To understand the nature of Christian youth it is a very distinguished and a unique phenomenon. Due to the increasing issues of peer pressure, this has led to the obstruction in the development of youth. There are negative as well as positive aspects of i t. Negative aspects influence a weaker mind. It is the most consistent findings revealed in observation. Due to the inquisitive innocence, an gratis(p) becomes a prey of the negative aspect, thereby exploited and develops an evil companionship where he adopts negative qualities and habits. But there is positive aspects as in there are some groups who work towards peer relationship. Here innocent gets an opportunity to identify his fear, weakness and have control over his own power. The peer mentors animate the part in organizing programmes to understand the behaviour. They interact with the teens and open lines of communication, build up action plans to change the behaviour by using the discipline skills wherever necessary. As church members figure out an integrate role, it is a challenge for them to develop the youth and make Christian education reachable to them.Teachers are responsible preachers. Youth growth depends on a teacher infact they are the true facilitators of our le arning, are Baptist figures and true authors of an individuals life book. They also act as the resource developer and planner setting the curriculum for the healthy growth of an individual, depending how the curriculum is designed with the kind and level of leadership skills to recognize the youth psychology. Parents play a significant role in Christian education. They are the promising leaders which shape up Christianity, infact are the real teachers of Christian education. Parents act as a moral standard and support, therefore can synchronize to their growing youth to be aware from their early hood to gain knowledge in Christian faith and this is done when they themselves too experience a fullness of church.Misunderstandings and miscommunication between parents and their children are one of the issues which follow breakings in the development of the youth. Due to parents own rulers, for respect and love of family values often creates harmness to the childrens growth which tempts them to behave against them. Thus youth becomes a totalistic of his own life by going against the values and ethics and unknowingly gets stucked in the torturous situations. more or less Christian youth, fail to act upon the 10 commandments of bible.I moldiness say, I myself as a youth in my real life experience have observed that the originality of the commandments has changed excessively and replaced with the followingThou must worship moneyThou must lyrically murderThou must have evil possessionThou must have sexThou must enjoy drug addictionThou must prosper, worship own selfThou must not feel chargeableThou must have no respect for ancestral valuesThou must not serve, applyThou must differentiateDue to the above, youth fails to feel guilty in which guiltness is a part of our conscience creating a false belief system as an obstacle in his adulthood and creating structure of his own. Under such circumstances he avoids promoting prayer, sacrifice, grace, redemption, worship an d meditation, atonement. Considering money and sex are the only two things reliable to satisfy the ask, creating a limitation and a boundary for establishing personal spiritual growth and development.In general terms, when the efforts of religious and educational institutions, society lack to perform the planned task for Christian education, a positive approach is expected and constructed to gain knowledge and teaching through parents and teachers. Youth must be aware of guiltiness which is a gift from god to help us in creation and doing well.Still the question is raised in a Journal Volume 5 Number 4, October 2003 by Author Charlene Tan, Can Christian teachers and parents teach Christian beliefs without indoctrinating their students and children?Yes, they can teach Christian beliefs without indoctrinating their students and children they need to be careful when a child is to be handled as their minds are immature. At times it is difficult to understand them because their way of thinking is varied. Firstly before going to the next process, the first process has to be resolved. As teachers and parents are the role models for the development. In order to develop and understand these three role models should be consistently developed first. Only by abiding this rule, they can achieve the development in child. But the consign lies beneath that how teachers and parents can prove themselves as an effective source of development by keeping in mind the relative factor of Childs mind compatibility and psychology? As there are variations in mental behavior teachers and parents should be mentally prepared, be changeable and adjustment oriented accordingly.The political and current affaire of the nation is affected by corruption and evilness rationally which gave birth to vivid factors like jealousy, backlog and so on, making humans built a lean to mislead the positive factors. The situations have made the teachers adapt those inequalities within them, affecting th e surrounding factors. Parents have too due to their increasing self antecedence created barriers of understanding among their families.Many people are often drawn towards the attention of the church because of their felt needs and not for spiritual needs.For instance, it does occur that why the youth is tuned out of his own way? Even in their interaction with their own members it tends to happen with them that they fail to assure a word said to them stating I didnt hear a word you said?, even though it is obvious that they have said something relating to us. This proves a kind of negligence in contacting the positive mechanism which grows in the back of our minds. Such system blocks all the treasured and useful messages allowing us to hear and see only what our mind tells us to hear and believe. As this tendency is increased in the youth generation, it is creating gaps between a believer and faith of god.The question is How? How can we scourge this problem? Youth have themsel ves developed a capacity in mind to hear only what pleasures them without taking a decision that whether it is false or truth. My query is How we can bring these groups of youth contiguous to god? Unconsciously resulting in unexpected calamities and unknowingly they are uneffective to repent it wisely. Due to this increasing factor, youth cant get a grip of effective communication and develop themselves internally. Here the parents then enter the scene to play their role.The main question lies whether the local churches fulfill and meet to mature disciples in Christian education?As stated above, youth are the most critical of all critics when it comes to religion. In this modern era, youth is distracted to church because they are building castles in air due to the unmaterialistic desire. Youth today have focused their vision to crave success and prosperity for their rising life chart they exploit their own ones due to greed and selfishness. During the primary phase of struggle a nd hard work, youth craves to achieve prosperity, at the same time, do thank god and accept his involvement for success, but hand in hand, lack to follow the bibles ethics which says to respect others in and with unity. Due to the competition and growth politically, more often youth seem to push the fellow mates and strive to takeover their place. They themselves are unaware that they give birth to exploitation and inequality. And due to inequality, unity is declined, wherein bible does not specify inequality. In a book source, Pastor Rick Warren illustrates in his book The Purpose-Driven Church -The issue is church health, not church growth declares warren. if your church is healthy, growth testament occur naturally. Healthy consistent growth is the result of match the five biblical purposes of the church.In addition to this he also declares that If u concentrate on building people, God will build the church.I agree at a certain point with the above statement. I herewith would want to magnify on How would one build a healthy youth for a healthy church? In this sense I believe that both are co-related with each other. Again the issue arises in my mind How will the church be healthy if the youth is windburned? The issue cant be only concentrated on church. For a church to survive, the basic invention is the youth and for the youth to be saved and attracted the church has to be healthy. In my knowledge it is a virulent Circle.Local churches upto some extent do specifically fulfill the discipleship through the practices and play a great emphasis in fulfilling and conveying the message of god to us, but still lack to read the minds and bring the youth closer to her, for which she has to upgrade her atmospheric appearance with new packages to reach the youth in a new judgement due to the competitive modernism which is hovering on the youth.The latter part can play the best part coz when first falls in place, everything else falls in place, from the beginni ng to the end, from all angles in all walks of life. Towards a healthy faith, healthy church can turn and seed a growth of spirituality through which mankind will grow spiritually from within thereby causing church growth.Author Perry G. Down states in his book Teaching for spiritual growth that how can we best enable Christians to grow towards maturity date? For this question he suggests three key concepts- ministry, believer, and purpose. But my understanding says that these concepts are partial somewhere to create a bond in reaching the results because todays youth is attracted towards the unrealistic worldly matters, but has resulted in declination towards the gods spiritual growth. The major role connecting these three concepts is commitment and effort. As the church ministry is the foundation pillar, the main aim is how much measure of commitment is valued and given to achieve the target successfully. public is able to commit only when he chooses the right direction in fea r and is able but this is unfortunate as the alien world tend to let us unidentify the type of strategies of growth for maturity. By identifying the type of strategies of growth, we can understand the level of growth required towards maturity at which we can be spiritual. Another reason for in growth is fear. As the youth fears to face unexpected problems, the efforts are less and require the hierarchys support.Author Gary C. Newton stated in his book Going towards spiritual maturity quotes the principle that God is ultimately responsible for all spiritual growth. The question arises at this point that if god is responsible for everything, what will be the purpose and role of human? I comment that while god supplies the resources like bible, church, Holy Spirit, baptism, it is also our responsibility to supply effort and commitment to utilize those resources and give results to god. In bible, Paul highlights this principle of his personal lifestyle and in his teachings comparing w ith the example of a soldier or athletic supporter to illustrate the amount of sincerity and efforts. (1 Corinthians 924-27), Paul states that In a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize. I herewith conclude in a Christian race all runners (ministry, believers, purpose) will fail to get a prize if there is no effort that is commitment from everyone. on with the concept of ministry, believer, purpose effort is also the key concept and it has to be achieved from the youth as well. A healthy youth will gain efforts only when the growth will favour them from within, when the forces of the ministry believers and youth will collide with each other to form a healthy growth.This will create a interchangeable relationship between gods provisional resources and our active involvement in process which is more clearly in Philippians 212-13 Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is god who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose . This principle is intricate but the application is clear.If one is to grow towards maturity in Christ then one must cultivate and demonstrate the efforts with passion, Philippians 217-18 But even if I am universe poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am jocund and rejoice with all of you. So you be glad and rejoice with me. thereof the conclusion lies in the above concept, both effort of the youth along with the work of ministry, believers proves in the healthiness of the church. In the book Youth At Risk by Peter Christian Olsen, 2003, he highlights four basic needs which he has clearly created an awareness of the effects that affects the development of youthAcceptance belongingNew beginnings and second chances forgivenessSignificance generosityFreedom independenceI agree with his confirmation that he examines in deriving the above developmental needs from the provision of the Almightys resources as the absence of these nee ds do intentionally contribute in how they shape the personality, maturity, responsibility and stability of emotions. He emphasizes Christian community in respond to the needs determining that, the resources will be polishing youth through support during the fear and avoid them from destruction. At times the concepts will be foreign, indigestive for youth because unable to realize its importance. Rather the community need not re-interpret or change the language but alter their thoughts and improve their visionary and understanding by change in structure through a friendly communication by becoming an effective leader to bridge the gap between the church and the youth. Therefore forces and efforts are needed for decision making which is an effective key in respond to ministry believer and purpose for a possibility of a healthy youth to build a healthy church, which will make the church flourish.Supporting surveysAccording to a survey, some findings proved that church fails to answer every question of the youth.Q.1 In what way and sense is Christian religion, faith and church viewed by todays modern youth?Youth of todays modern era is firm on the point stating that inspiration is lacked in religion they feel that the world is divided through religion and is the major factor which is affecting the growth. A 17-year-old Jude from Kent says confidently that He does not agree with the church who talks on subject morality and is Overfilled with traditionality.Youth pick their ideas which suit their taste through various religious beliefs. There are few in bunch who strongly believe, there exist only single religion which has controlled the truth. Young generation refer to perform all activities as per their own desire which in return less importance to the religious belief are being given, which gives birth to the side effects of the conduct.Q.2 Why do young conference feel that Christianity is not a happening cultural activity?An 18-year-old Marcus said that he le ft church when he was 15 because the teachings did not amuse him and it did not interest him of anything as a youth.The major quest, a struggle for a religion is to impose an exertion of force of involvement in terms of attraction. I usually attend church service wherein I find young ones missing the services. I kept questioning myself that, where the young crowd has disappeared? Surprisingly the young ones have taken charge for the attendance of the church. In this consequence the church should give priority to change its curriculum and its way of presenting the services with new attractive packages for enhancement.Q.3 Are the young preachers practicing different approaches in Christianity declining. What are your suggestions?As the attendance of the youth in church has declined, but on the other hand people practicing approaches are increasing in numbers. The following is revealed through one of the youths that more the deepening are the studies of the bible, more a person becomes a hypocrite of the Christian leadership and unintentionally accepts and performs the lifestyle of the clergy right or wrong at times unknowingly. In such case, the practices are affected and become different from those which are to be precise. Seen are still some true Christian youngsters who are different in their attitude and conduct, but in spite of such difference, they are not involved into the shabbiness and violence activities with other youths. They present themselves as they are from a different unknown religion, but practice the religion and it