Our Information oriented Society influences on the Christian community, the Church, like any other spheres pervasively. Especially, the influences ask for the changes of our communities through adolescents. The adolescents are the major members of Chr...
Our Information oriented Society influences on the Christian community, the Church, like any other spheres pervasively. Especially, the influences ask for the changes of our communities through adolescents. The adolescents are the major members of Christian communities and the agents who will act the important roles in the future communities. Therefore, Having concern for and doing education on them is a problem related with the identity and existence of Christian community.
On one hand, the Christian community incorporates people into himself as members by the means of preaching. If one of asking change challenges which the Christian community confronts is came from adolescents today, new alternative preaching for adolescents will be a solution for Christian community to overcome the problems which is risen from the information oriented society.
The contents and methods of the preaching for adolescents in the information society should be designed on the base of fresh understanding them. Adolescents in the information society have big concerns on their body and sex, are anxiety in emotions and violent. And they have material value system and are confused by their self-identities.
The aim of preaching for adolescents is for wholistic growth in the light of Christian community. To fulfill this aim, inductive preaching, analytic preaching, and narrative preaching can be performed in the intellectual level, confessional preaching and counseling preaching cam be done in the emotional level And biographical preaching and preaching to which applies Thomas H. Groome's shared praxis approach will be benefit for formation adolescents into the community.