Moral Decision-Making

Abstract

"The model used in training men and women for ministry today is of a minister with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. The aim of such training is to help ministers apply God's Word to God's world and for them to teach and enable others to do the same. It is vital we help Christians face up to the moral dilemmas of the last few years of the twentieth century. That is, however, not enough, if we are to train people not just forthe present but also for the future. A key concern must be to equip ministers, and indeed all Christians, to cope with the new moral problems and issues that we will face in twenty year's time. The difficulty is that we do not know what these problems will be. This makes the task hard, but means we must focus on teaching methods of making moral decisions. Such an approach will ensure that no matter what the problems will be in the future, Christians will have a way of coping with and responding to them"