의심하는 청년들을 위한 변증적 교리 설교의 필요

Abstract

This study suggests ways to give religious help to young people who are in church but also under doubt. Most of these young people are those who are accustomed to church life from their youth by their parents’ faith. They are going through childhood and adolescence, through the growth of their bodies to the youth, and at the same time mentally seeking independence from their parents. And, from the stage of relying on ‘the faith of their parents’, They are going through the process of passing onto the stage of ‘their own faith’, that is, the period of doubt in the process of religious independence. At an early age, when the Bible story that they accepted without doubt became doubtful, when they find doubtful verses in the Bible, or when the doctrine of Christianity is considered illogical, they get doubts. When this doubt is not resolved through the life of the church, they will live a formal religious life, or lose interest in the faith, even giving up their faith and even leaving the church. It is the point of this study that ‘apologetic doctrine preaching’ is needed to help young generation in the church, even under the clouds of doubts. To this end, this study argues that there must be four ‘needs’. First, it is necessary to understand the young generation in doubt. It is because we can help them if we know the reasons for their doubting and the contents of the doubt. Second, it is necessary to recognize the need for a doctrine for doubting young people. It is because the nature of the doubts of young people in the church is ‘doctrinal’. Therefore, if there is an understanding of the right doctrine, much of their doubts can be resolved. Third, it is necessary to realize the need for ‘doctrine preaching’. Of course, ‘education’ is more effective than ‘preaching’ in teaching doctrine to young people. But considering that the majority of young people only attend Sunday morning worship these days, it is realistic to convey doctrine in a preaching form. Fourth, apologetic preaching is needed. Even at preaching a doctrine, the preaching must be conducted in an apologetic way to give real help to the doubting young people. It is the Bible’s teachings that Christian faith occurs only through the work of the Holy Spirit. Faith is the gift of God, a result of the work of the Holy Spirit, not created by human apologetics. Therefore, it is not the belief that comes through apologetics. Through apologetic doctrine preaching, this study just attempts to explain that Christian faith is rational and biblical, not illogical or blind, and that it is not irrational but super-rational to convey that we can help in faith the doubting young people.