Biblical literacy and pastoral care are keys to youths’ spiritual revival

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      Taiwan Church News

      3053 Edition

      August 30~September 5, 2010

       

       

      Biblical literacy and pastoral care are keys to youths’ 
spiritual revival

       

      Reported by Joe Ko

      Written by Lydia Ma

       

       



      Taiwan Theological College and Seminary Contextual Theology 
Research Center and 

      Campus Evangelical Fellowship co-sponsored a forum on 
understanding Pentecostal 

      movements among youths and how church leaders should respond to 
youth revival.

       



      Many youths love to go to revival meetings but have a hard time 
practicing their religious 

      convictions in their daily lives, and yet, it is essential that 
they try, said Taiwan Seminary 

      Professor Dr. Cheng Yang-en.

       



      He also suggested church leaders organize more reading clubs 
and small groups devoted to 

      sharing the gospel so that churches can become equipped in 
sharing the gospel with their 

      communities and surrounding schools.

       



      Presbyterian Bible College President Liu Jin-chang encouraged 
pastors to keep an eye on 

      their youths and find out whether there are questionable 
revival meetings youths might be 

      better off not attending. He also urged them to increase the 
amount of teaching and sharing of 

      Biblical insights during small group meetings.

       



      Taiwan Seminary Assistant Professor Dr. Chuang Hsin-te reported 
that he discovered during 

      his thesis research that many PCT youths had left the 
denomination because they’d either left 

      home for college or had transferred to charismatic churches 
after attending revival meetings.

       



      However, Chuang felt this phenomenon wasn’t helping Taiwanese 
churches increase in 

      number or reaching more Taiwanese people for Christ because new 
members at local 

      churches increasingly became a motley of Christians switching 
from one church to another. 

       



      Rev. Chen Kuan-shien from China Lutheran Seminary pointed out 
some churches had begun 

      placing equal emphasis on youth meetings and Sunday worship 
services, even to the point of 

      holding the two meetings simultaneously. 

       



      In response to this phenomenon, he said youths should be led 
back to Sunday worship 

      services instead so that they could become full and active 
members of their church 

      community. 

       



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