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The article starts with a problem-posing of how Christians understand complex reality of the current society and respond to it. In many cases, many young adult members in the context of Korean churches are asked to just ignore harsh realities of the society with so-called “faith.” In this article, thus, we need to help young adult lay members to analyze and interpret what is going on in the society and critically raise a question of what Christian responsibility may look like in the era of globalized society. To help them to participate in acting toward a more just society, a practical class for Christian social engagements can be proposed, which includes the following sessions of 1) Christian economic life, 2) critical issues of GMOs in our life, 3) power relationships in cyberspace, and 4) making connections among social issues and consciousness. In the consecutive sessions, there are four important focal points emphasized and shared with each other: 1) social and ecological values beyond monetary values, 2) intrinsic values of all beings and current life-manipulations in the globalized economy, 3) relocation of ourselves in the web of interrelations, and 4) possible actions and practices for a more just society. These practical class sessions motivates young adult lay members to responsibly live their Christian life based on what they believe and what they learn. In this project of lay member’s class, we come to know that teaching and learning as a whole for Christian social engagements is a continual process of realizing what we believe for correcting, motivating, and sustaining our interrelations around and among us toward a more just society.