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One of the primary tasks for the Christian educators lies in making their traditional contents of Christian faith relevant to their contemporary ways of living. Therefore it is necessary to pursue an interdisciplinary research between the Bible and the Christian Education, particularly a hermeneutics approach in the Christian Education. It has been pursued in various ways. This article looks for the ways how to relate theory to practice in the hermeneutics approach in which the Proverbs, one of the wisdom literature is taught for the contemporary youths. It is chosen because it puts the most emphasis on practice in the Bible. This analyzes Aristotle’s phronesis, practical wisdom, options in the Christian Education, the sapiential mode as a teaching-learning methods implicit in the Proverbs, in order to bridge the gaps between theory and practice. Just as Aristotle’s phronesis, theoria, praxis, and poesis have their distinctive methods to complete themselves, the Proverbs has its own method to illuminate and accomplish wisdom in a community. Therefore it is possible and significant in the hermeneutics approach in the Christian Education to make a connection between the phronesis and the Proverbs. The sapiential mode and its teaching-learning methods’ validities are elaborated in terms of contemporary teaching-learning theory and practice in the Christian Education. This presents a new mode composed of principles and methods in the wisdom education. It shows how to apply content of Christian faith to everyday lives. It contributes to the Bible education in the Christian Education fields.