한국교회교육에 대한 교육지도자의 인식도 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate church workers' consciousness of church education and suggest Christian educational alternatives for future Korean church education. In this study the researchers conducted a quantitative survey targeting 216 senior pastors, 260 assistant pastors, and 922 Sunday school teachers. Results showed that a concern degree of church education among church leaders including senior pastors and elders was 73.6% and most of the responded churches made a budget under 5% of whole church budget. Senior pastors responded that the most influential subject to the next generations was students' parents. Also they answered that they were the main factor of church education's decline. The researchers analyzed 11 competencies of assistant pastors. Assistant pastors had relatively high mean scores in calling, ministry satisfaction, commitment to ministry, and personality competencies. However, they had relatively low mean scores in teaching-learning ability, student understanding and Bible understanding competencies. They responded that the most influential subject to the next generations was students' parents. Sunday school teachers also responded that the strongestcompetencies were calling, ministry satisfaction, department atmosphere, and commitment to ministry, and the weakest competencies were understanding students, teaching-learning ability, and so on. As a result of the study, the researchers concluded that the main causes of church education decline were senior pastors' low interest of church education, low educational speciality of assistant pastors, and low educational competency of Sunday school teachers.