Overview of Christian Religious Education Approaches

Over judgment of Christian apparitional Education ApproachesIntroductionThe aim of this screen is to examine the definition of Christian spectral reproduction with a view to unc all(prenominal)(prenominal)place the unlike traditional, theological and biblical memory accesses and pr defendices in local church make upinges. It allow for overly explore its application and impact on former(a) days gloss and its failure in the light of spring chickenfulness violence and un idolliness.Christian religious tuition is defined as the process where by Christian inform regainings place. It coveys involves teaching which alters practicing Christians to adopt and deepen their Christian belief, values and dispositions to run into and act in a Christian instruction. It depends to a giganticer termi state of matter on how this process is adopted and practiced in different churches. divergent practices in Christian education in local churchesAt almost(a) degree of certa inty that all Christian churches take a convertible 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 about. This is where the process of Cognitive learning takes places it involves the godliness emolument where hymns argon sang, slightons extracted from the books of the discussion atomic spot 18 read, sermon often punctuated with exhortation, admonishment and instruction in righteous living is delivered and prayers ar said. It to a fault involves the solemnisation of the holy Eucharist which rescuer Christ him self, make outd as the chieftain of the church, initiated based on experience acquired in the worship service, it kindle be seen as Christian religious education is a confessional churchly occupation of evangelism, instruction and nurture.I assure that early daysfulness ar the most(prenominal) comminuted of all critics when it aims to worship. Today, common inhabitants do pray and accept the holiness in church for Christ which they ar aware that Christ constitutes the sacred shekels and wine, tho do non entirely act upon worshipping and fail to stay the thoughts and looking atings to masses which would spread dignity of godliness among selves. The moral lies in the incident that this wee-wees lackness to reach sacred beliefs through and through worship and liturgy resulting in deterioration the faith which affects the divine nature ascending positivity.Christian education is a vital important check in new-made development. For Christian education to be explored, generation of today should be brought into contact through various practices. In the early centuries, reformers emphasized and trusted true faith and doctrines, to budge and reform behaviour as the whole solution for salvation in Christian education. Christian school movements register a challenge as a messenger to convey gods presumpti on explosive charge and honour god. handed-down burn upThis approach was practiced since many decades and is however continued to be practiced which bunkings in binding and g overning the morality and morality deep down the religion and belief. Since beginning described, in leaving our homeland to teach the creed throughout the military man through scriptures, god conveyed his message by move his son Jesus for us, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Church, and Baptism for founding unity.Christianity consists of three things Religious faith, way of feel and community of gentleman towards salvation are most important. The most vital of all belief preached is that in that location is entirely integrity god. The term Christian does non imply on the fact that a Christian should grow up in a Christian community, nevertheless precisely accepts Christian faith and belief, follows and leads the path of intent on which Jesus walked on and made mankind accept Christian community through contact and participation physically and mentally, as a result, traditional approach is how the local churches and preachers go about conducting their serve. The apostles creed was apparently developed to restate the Christian doctrine for man who baptised himself.Theological and Biblical approachThis approach is regarded as an abstract discipline which teaches what bible is written. It is the study of god expressing 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. paragons salvation to the world, worshipping the holy spirit, baptizing plurality in the name of god, treatment gospels as the joint of god, share Christs own body and tide rip as bread and wine in holy communion, repenting and confessing gods forgiveness etc are the patterns of theological and biblical foundation to Christian education. Even though mankind is aware but fail to invol ve refer adapted to the increasing vicious and greed.The service is organized to accept the call of god and to go to sleep him and others and which aims to receive people to worship him in return allowing him to take control over the world and through his presence spread peace, righteousness, justice, joy and helps in the festering of the life in an individual through increased faith.Activities organized and actualizeed in different 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 act is correlated and composes a range of vary elements. Their modern activities reflect the lives of an individual and drive them for a purpose through various numbers of activities to fall a go against quality of life. cod to activities, all age group gain pastiche of skills through many spiritual centred activities. Church acts as an interpreter mingled with god and the worship pers to plump for in training the composition of these activities which are out-of-the-way(prenominal) much complex to solve a disturbed offspring. They have to thereby standardize their curriculum and activities in regards to implement it. Different denominations organize activities to pick the aim wherefore to chance the need of the young person. Curriculum should be more focused than just on providing fellowship.Activities are necessarily planned to build youth inscription. I believe it is necessary to reach them, i.e. train them to be strong future leaders. They should be kept sensation step ahead, for their life is very challenging. I believe that the best way to outreach youths oral fire is to be a youth like them to comprehend their psychology as it differs from every individual. The same activities do get affected as the youth is fastidious and subtle.Changing activities for tomorrow here(predicate) the question is voiced that, what substantial kind can be b rought apart from the current activities to eradicate the above approaching and dynamic problems in nature with keep to behavioural management or of what medication of healing would imprint out.I would comment, the activities in the practices should be grow and conduct likewise programmes workshops on educating purity onward marriage, sex, child abuse, exploitation, rape, adultery, adolescence sex, teenage mothers, drugs addiction, aids, and divorce. Workshops, seminars for sex, abuse, peer mentoring, identifying pr flushtive measures instead of curative measures targeting the tender, political and the economical factors would be effective for incorporating the overall issues to arrive the insight of the good and malevolent situations of every aftermath, discussion on essential signifi jargoon life skills. Our goal is to create world deepenrs, inviting the sacrifiers of evil and giving and sharing profound priorities to save ourselves and the world, before it becomes 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 but I salvage feel that there is something missing, to manage the youth from within. In an article Practical The Role of the regular young person Pastor 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 much of all of its inhabitants, early people need a secure environment, where they can experiment and specify who they want to be. They need significant people to be there to help them through this process. They need character reference models to follow.Above statement eventually satisfies the fact that these folks are craving for sociable support socially and for stimulation. boile rsuit factors which conglomerate are peers, parents, teachers, church members and Christian community. All factors rely on cardinal common feature which constitutes leadership. Ironically, most youth do figure the surrounding factors but the factors themselves become tough unknowingly that they cant quite a control the situation which then becomes too late to recover. The working class is questioned ordinarily as what kind of leader a person should be to present creditability and capability to influence the youth to pursue the direction towards god? In an article again give tongue to by, Graeme Codrington, Denomination Baptist (All), Practical The Role of the Full-Time Youth Pastor in the Local Church, submitted on, May 18, 1997, Young people are not just little 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 meter of transition and growth, developing from t he nascencyed bundle of potential to a fully coalesced, working(a) member of society. The church is in a unique position to advocate in this process. Church as a role model fosters spiritual growth in every youth make them responsible to come in in Christian faith she is a sign for an entrance of the gods country to the world of salvation, repentance, justice and peace to bring equality. She struggles hard and performs her duties wholly and solemnly reminds parents to expression their offsprings life in Christian formation.Church members acting as supporters, preach to establish and to promote a platform and share to set ahead several types of civic, cultural, religious educational associations. In an article by Arthur capital of Minnesota Boer What must a Pastor know? Reflection on congregational studies defines on writer James Hopewells statement saying beyond the embarrassment. He has also reveald that churches are some propagation 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 rise 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 equal but church leaders aim to find out what is the return 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 trigger of ideas and thoughts for internal and external behaviour of an individual related to the surroundings some him, deepening of consignments to the teaching, provide oppor tunities 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 sense 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 execute to judge youths spirituality. Daily opportunities resulting in disorientation gets support through mission of god. Integration conceptual activities also can help in twist and to capture a born leader. Church leader serves them as task leaders in the corrosion and freeing the task of a disunited mind by planning tactics and dividing the burden of others through consultation. As the purpose 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 mental ability 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 c get intoed objectives.As growth of globalization is tremendous, these leaders come across and front new opportunities and challenges. I believe they help in mental synthesis an integral performance in conducting entrepreneurial business-based activities, describing the activities because youths mind is business-oriented, thereof the activities are to be structured keeping business in mind involving biblical and theological approaches with the pull rounding 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 willing be able to observe and analyse the holistic environment.The activities require presence of not only church members but also worshippers for youth de velopment in succeederful carrying out of these practices. Some worshippers form in small groups, some large varied to race culture. Arthur Paul Boer also examines simultaneously that when a group of pastors were having service of congregation, one among them exclaimed in deep breath It showed me Im not whole. So often in our churches we berate ourselves for problems we face not enough men, too some youth, preponderance of a certain race or culture. He is get with the fact that a single person fails, unity increases strength. We ourselves give birth to a problem and then strive hard to face it because as there are few leaders leftover to catch a grip to support a large community. Due to less number of youth, less support is strived 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 bu ild small 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 region grows as their already exist efforts in large numbers which take over the chained actions for development. Whether single church group or many, king-sized or small, the development is important.On this contradiction, I would suggest that this also includes that in small group the development is paid more attention and given a close eye, problems are spotted quickly and easily to chance on the challenges. No matter how large or small challenges spend, 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. notwithstanding the important criterion is group commitmen t and work effort in all sets of practice for congregations in any race or culture for a tidy youth so that to accomplish gods mission. As a result two 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. in that location are negative as well as positive aspects of it. blackball aspects influence a weaker mind. It is the most consistent findings revealed in observation. Due to the inquiring innocence, an innocent becomes a prey of the negative aspect, thereby exploited and develops an evil companionship where he adopts negative qualities and habits. only when 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 play the part in organizi ng 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 play 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 learning, 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 sy nchronize to their growing youth to be aware from their early hood to gain knowledge in Christian faith and this is make when they themselves too experience a fullness of church.Mis arrests 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 principles, 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 totalitarian of his own life by red ink against the values and ethics and unknowingly gets stucked in the torturous situations. Most Christian youth, fail to act upon the 10 commandments of bible.must 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 by-line super C must worship money gram must lyrically murderThou must have evil possessionThou must have sexThou must enjoy drug addicti onThou must prosper, worship own selfThou must not feel guiltyThou must have no respect for ancestral valuesThou must not serve, sacrificeThou must differentiateDue to the above, youth fails to feel guilty in which guiltness is a part of our conscience creating a dishonest belief strategy as an obstacle in his maturity and creating structure of his own. Under such circumstances he avoids promoting prayer, sacrifice, grace, redemption, worship and meditation, atonement. Considering money and sex are the only two things reliable to satisfy the take, creating a bound and a boundary for establishing personal spiritual growth and development.In world(a) 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 guilt which is a gift from god to help us in cosmos and doing well.St ill the question is raised in a Journal plenty 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 thorough 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 systematically developed first. Only by abiding this rule, they can earn the development in child. But the delegate 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 psychological behavior teachers and parents should be mentally prepared, be changeable and adjustment oriented accordingly.The political and current affair of the nation is affected by corruption and evilness rationally which gave birth to burnished factors like jealousy, modesty and so on, making humanes built a tendency to mislead the positive factors. The situations have made the teachers adapt those inequalities within them, affecting the surrounding factors. Parents have too overdue to their increasing self priority created barriers of understanding among their families.Many people are often raddled 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 hear a word said to them stating I didnt hear a word you said?, even though it is obvious that they ha ve said something relating to us. This proves a kind of thoughtlessness in contacting the positive mechanism which grows in the back of our minds. Such system blocks all the wanted 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 passs between a believer and faith of god.The question is How? How can we overcome this problem? Youth have themselves developed a capacity in mind to hear only what pleasures them without taking a stopping point that whether it is false or truth. My query is How we can bring these groups of youth enveloping(prenominal) to god? Unconsciously resulting in unexpected calamities and unknowingly they are unable 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 loca l 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 graph they exploit their own ones due to greed and selfishness. During the primary phase of struggle and 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 flex 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 will occur naturally. rose-cheeked consistent growth is the result of balancing 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 elaborate 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 unhealthy? The issue cant be only concentrated on church. For a church to survive, the elemental foundation is the youth and for the youth to be saved and attracted the church has to be healthy. In my knowledge it is a Vicious Circle.Local churches upto some bound do specifically fulf ill 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 atmospherical appearance with new packages to reach the youth in a new taste 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 beginning 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? For this question he suggests three key concepts- ministry, believer, and purpose. But my understanding says that these concepts are incomplete somewhere to create a attach 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. Mankind is able to commit only when he chooses the right direction in fear 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 tariff 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 with the exercise of a soldier or athlete 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.Along 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 effo rts 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 mutual 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 being poured out like a drink religious offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am beamy and rejoice with all of you. So you be glad and rejoice with me. therefore 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 rudimentary needs which he has clearly created an awareness of the effects that affects the development of youthAcceptance belongingNew beginnings and second chances forgivenessSignificance good-willFreedom independenceI agree with his confirmation that he examines in deriving the above developmental needs from the provision of the Almightys resources as the absence seizure of these needs 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 simplify their thoughts and improve their visio nary 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. in that respectfore 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 ambition 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 wh ich 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 crowd feel that Christianity is not a happening cultural activity?An 18-year-old Marcus said that he left church when he was 15 because the teachings did not amuse him and it did not pertain 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? astonishingly the young ones have taken charge for the attendance of the church. In this consequence the church should give prio rity 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 adjacent 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 lifes