한국교회의 입교교육을 위한 이론적 성찰과 프로그램 개발

Abstract

Among the various educational programs that educate the growing generation of the Korean church, the public profession of faith has not paid close attention. If God sovereignly invites a child to a covenant family in Jesus Christ through infant baptism, this child responds to that covenant by professing of faith. This is public profession of faith as a covenantal action. This public profession of faith allows participation in the Lord’s Supper. The sacraments are a means of education that God helps weak humans to believe. It is to seal the child that God gave to the family of faith through the sacrament, and to grow faith through the Word and the Holy Spirit. The church has the duty to teach the children whom God has chosen and gathered by the Word. In the current situation where the number of youth in Korean churches is rapidly declining, parents and pastors must fulfill their educational mission so that youths can learn the way of becoming Christians and walk the path of the Lord by implementing catechesis that connects infant baptism and public confession of faith. To this end, the curriculum of Lesson 15 for public confession of faith and a model teaching plan for 1-hour education were attached. I hope that catechism education, which was actively used in the era of the Reformation, especially from the early Churches, will be revitalized and renewed the educational soil of Korean churches. We hope that this systematic catechesis will serve as an important channel through which the grace of baptism and the Holy Communion, which are the sacraments of becoming a Christian, can be vividly delivered to the Christian's life. As an important instrument to recognize the work of the Holy Spirit which perseveres the saints, I desire that this systematic education for the public confession of faith can result the fruits of the faith in the coming generation.