Teaching in the Church-Community from the Perspective of Sanctification

Teaching in the Church-Community from the Perspective of Sanctification

Andres S. TANG

This paper aims to give Christian education a proper position in the church-community. According to the Christian faith, the church community is created and established in Christ through the Holy Spirit towards the eschaton. Therefore, it is a community of justified believers on the way of sanctification towards perfection. By taking Christ as telos and getting power from the Holy Spirit, the church-community is being shaped so as to be different from the secular society. Against this background Christian education is conducted under the normative guidance of sanctification, ie, of being holy. In this way, Christian education is not set by the agenda of the world but by the telos of Christ. Its function is, on the one hand, to resist the temptation of conforming to the world and, on the other hand, to form the holy identity and life style of the church-community that is different from the world. The paper ends with the suggestion that church worship, as the first place for the whole believers-community, is worth noting for the Christian education.