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In this essay Christian education is described as a Spirit-filled pattern of cultivating disciples of Jesus Christ. Drawing upon the insights of Dr.Yonggi Cho as well as the theology of the Reformed and Eastern Orthodox traditions, this essay develops a Christocentric, pneumatological ecclesiology that is particularly well-suited to a Pentecostal perspective. To think of the church as the ‘body of Christ’ helps us understand what discipleship is most fundamentally so we can organize educational efforts to cultivate disciples in the power of the Spirit. The process of cultivating discipleship is theologically reframed as Incarnational and Trinitarian. That is, the content and practices of Christian education are derived directly from the life of Jesus Christ as the Incarnate Logos of the Triune God. As a unique contribution to Pentecostal ecclesiology, it is proposed that the Eucharist provides a clear and historical pattern of the structure, order, and meaning of the divine life by which discipleship can be cultivated. A Eucharistic pattern—gathering, offering, sharing, extending—is developed as a way to understand and organize the myriad ways that we educate and develop disciples so that our educational efforts are more theologically coherent, practically consistent, and missionally fruitful.
In this essay Christian education is described as a Spirit-filled pattern of cultivating disciples of Jesus Christ. Drawing upon the insights of Dr. Yonggi Cho as well as the theology of the Reformed and Eastern Orthodox traditions, this essay develops a Christocentric, pneumatological ecclesiology that is particularly well-suited to a Pentecostal perspective. To think of the church as the ‘body of Christ’ helps us understand what discipleship is most fundamentally so we can organize educational efforts to cultivate disciples in the power of the Spirit. The process of cultivating discipleship is theologically reframed as Incarnational and Trinitarian. That is, the content and practices of Christian education are derived directly from the life of Jesus Christ as the Incarnate Logos of the Triune God. As a unique contribution to Pentecostal ecclesiology, it is proposed that the Eucharist provides a clear and historical pattern of the structure, order, and meaning of the divine life by which discipleship can be cultivated. A Eucharistic pattern—gathering, offering, sharing, extending—is developed as a way to understand and organize the myriad ways that we educate and develop disciples so that our educational efforts are more theologically coherent, practically consistent, and missionally fruitful.
