Development of Family Parenting Textbooks for Next Generation Mission Jang Inseog Department of Mission and Culture Westminster Graduate School of Theology “Development of Family Parenting Textbooks for Next Generation Mission” began with the conc...
Development of Family Parenting Textbooks for Next Generation Mission Jang Inseog Department of Mission and Culture Westminster Graduate School of Theology “Development of Family Parenting Textbooks for Next Generation Mission” began with the concern of how to convey the gospel and pass on faith to children in families. The next generation mission is a crucial challenge that the modern Korean church and Christian households must address. Recently, South Korea has been grappling with severe societal issues of population decline and low birth rates, which have also led to a crisis of decreasing church membership. The decline in church school attendance, especially in various age groups such as infants, elementary, middle school, high school, university, and youth, is particularly alarming. For this reason, new paradigms such as generational integration worship, generational integration education, and whole-generation rearing with the whole family are being suggested as alternatives to ministry. This paper describes the reality within the context of the Korean church, where families themselves, rather than church teachers or pastors, engage in the actual practice of evangelizing and parenting their own families. Specifically, it focuses on addressing the challenges faced by parents who have dedicated themselves to serving as faithful Christians but encounter difficulties in spreading the gospel and passing on their faith to the next generation. Parents need a lot of energy to play that role at home. Parenting is a very active activity that requires a lot of commitment, along with numerous skills such as parenting, conversation, and support. In fact, children respond to actions much better than words. Therefore, in order to be an effective parent, you must be an active parent. Most parents raise their children with a responsive approach. However, parents should take an active approach to their children. Reactive parents endure their children until they push them to a dead end and only react afterwards. So parents end up with frustration, anger, random discipline, or shouting and responding discipline. Parents emotional reactions without taking initiative and active actions, ultimately allow their children to control their emotions and situations. As a result, the problem persists and worsens as parents and children repeatedly encounter frustrating situations. Most parents do not parenting their children in a consistent and unified manner, which is a serious problem. Therefore, parents unwittingly follow the guidance methods used by their parents in the past to their children, or use the exact opposite guidance methods. Or use the guidance methods they heard and learned from friends, books, online searches, or the media poorly. Therefore, parents need an active attitude and attitude to carry out child rearing such as proper discipline, evangelism, and faith transfer to their children. Parents must take on the 'active parental role' in parenting their children. Here, the basic philosophy inherent in the 'active parental role' is that it is the parents, not the children, who will play the leadership role in the family. The family parenting textbook recorded in this paper is a parenting textbook developed for the purpose of next-generation missionary work while I was ministrying. This parenting textbook is largely composed of three themes. The first is a spiritual training topic that helps in training for spiritual growth. The second is the subject of personality training, or character training, that is, character training that is helpful for training necessary to form a basic personality as a human being. The third is the topic of intellectual training that helps in the training necessary to form a worldview centered on the Bible. I hope that the whole family will have a harmonious family by talking and communicating with each other in the process of conducting the family parenting textbook. Through this, we intend to contribute to achieving the wish of family evangelization. And the key terms of this paper are Home, Family, Children, Next Generation Mission, Family Evangelism, Faith Transfer, Family Parenting, Parenting Textbooks, Parent Education, Shema Education, and Shema Mission.