Christian Education in the Church's Policy

Abstract

"The picture of the Church as the Family of God aptly depicts how people of all ages, and at all stages of experience, live and learn together in the family life of any church. In a family, you are learning all the time- through the atmosphere and relationships, through attitudes to the material home, and through all the informal shared activities of home life. Of course, this means that there can be negative and undesired learning as well as any other. And there is also planned learning- parents reading to and talking with their children, older members teaching young ones how to do this or that, as well as the more structural pursuit of learning at school and in homework or apprenticeship. Similarly, in the Church, everything teaches: the atmosphere which makes you feel "at home", the obviously cherished building, and the carefully planned opportunities for members of the whole Church Family to learn together ... using a variety of different patterns"