CHRISTIANITY AND FAMILY: A CASE STUDY OF REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD IN CALABAR SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
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Abstract
this study was carried out to examine Christianity and family in redeemed Christian church of god in Calabar south local government area.
Christ’s headship of the church has strong parallels to the husband’s headship of the family unit. As postmodernism, socio-economic factors, egalitarianism, globalization and shifts in the communicational processes drive inter-generational issues to greater heights, insidiously tear families apart—relationally, intellectually and spiritually. On the other hand, the church models the world through its discipleship programs, organization structures and has asserted itself as the spiritual head of the home. This paper will survey Christian young adults to identify key influences on their spiritual formation and family ministries the church provide to support families. The paper will provide a critique on family-equipping ministries that can help bridge the intergenerational divide in the church, re-integrate the family and reestablish spiritual leadership in the home.
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study
The modern Christian family appears to be under siege from the culture at large. Its form and purpose most of all have been challenged. This paper will explore the theological basis for a family and evaluate some of the current trends in discipleship and ecclesiology about the family. It will focus on some of the current efforts to refocus the church on the family and propose a path towards reconstituting the family as it was designed to be and the role of the church in providing leadership and equipping for this.
1.2 Statement of Problem
While it is clear that the church has been called to be a new family in the New Testament, the church today has morphed into an organization, its structures streamlined for efficiency and the relationships within defined by organizational hierarchy and function. Churches have been transformed into a corporation whose bottom line is magnifying Christ in its professionalism, community contribution, and influence. As such, decreasing emphasis and focus have been put on the relational aspects of the members, especially the family in the church. Sharing and learning in Bible study groups and formal discipleship classes take a classroom and academic approach along with the structured age segregated Sunday school classes for the children.
As for the natural families in the church, the socioeconomic and prevailing cultural influences has reduced the span of close relationships to the nuclear family. Within that unit, roles and functions have become increasingly blurred between the two parents and parental relationships with their children are challenging due to generational gaps and extreme individualism. In non-traditional families such as step-parent and single parent families, the relationships are even more complex. These forces have dislodged the family unit from its divine design and purpose, resulting in the isolation of generations and decline of the church as a multi-generational familial body. One tragic consequence of the chasm is a failure to leave a spiritual legacy to the next generation, resulting in the loss of the faith of the subsequent generation of young adults.
1.3 Objectives of the study
The objectives of the study were;
1. To better understand the impact of family lifestyle on christianity growth.
2. To investigate family lifestyle on the general well-being of a church.
3. To establish a relationship between family lifestyle and Christianity growth.
1.4 Research Hypothesis
Ho: There is no significant impact of Christian family lifestyle on Christianity growth.
Hi: There is a significant impact of Christian family lifestyle on Christianity growth.
1.5 Statement of Limitations
The study will focus on the theological basis for familial relationships and articulate practical outcomes of these for the local church. The cultural context is primarily Western within its cultural elements. The research instruments will focus on Evangelical churches and its members. The samples will come from churches and students in Calabar south local government.
1.6 Theoretical basis for the project
The discussion on the loss of faith in church-going young adults will entail a review of youth discipleship programs and processes. Related to this are organizational or ecclesiological postures that support these programs. Evangelism efforts toward unchurched youth is an outward looking program to engage or re-engage the loss of faith in youth. The key internal factor in this project is the family, its structure, function and consequently, its sphere of influence on the nurture of the child to adulthood. Spiritual leadership, patriarchy/egalitarianism, religious education and mentoring within the family are the associated topics for discussion.
1.7 Statement of methodology
The study begins with a biblical, historical and theological discussion concerning marriage and the family, to develop and ascertain the key doctrines. These will then provide a basis for a framework of what a family and the church looks like and how they should function together in unison. Then an assessment of a range of current family roles and church situations will help evaluate and identify areas of strength and opportunities. The gaps and issues that generate the problems therein will help to identify the roles such as spiritual leadership and church responsibilities about the strengthening families and discipling the next generation. A research survey will be utilized to collect data from two groups of people. One set will address college students to validate the extent of the problem and a second set will be addressed to pastors of evangelical churches to assess family ministries currently practiced in the church today. Lastly, the data points will be analyzed and used to synthesize proposals for ministry changes and programs that will impact the family.
1.8 Research instrument:
Young adult surveys to validate study findings on spiritual transformation
Pastor surveys for best practices on family ministry
Applying key ideas and activities for family ministry
Survey Questions created by author for this study:
College Student Survey:
State of faith (Self, siblings, family and friends), key spiritual and lifestyle influences
Pastoral Survey on family ministries: Family equipping ministries, discipleship programs, generational programs, modeling and development of faith community
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