Intergenerational Christian Formation

“How can we bring the generations back together?”

Intentional intergenerational ministry.

enculturation.

Among those factors are modern and postmodern tendencies toward individualism and dependence on psychological, therapeutic or secular educational models rather than theological models.

Postconventional levels of faith reflect an owned faith that has weathered doubt and suffering.

“religious socialization” (see chapter nine for a fuller discussion of this construct). Westerhoff and Neville define religious socialization as “a process consisting of lifelong, formal and informal mechanisms through which persons sustain and transmit their faith (worldview, value system) and lifestyle, and this is accomplished through participat

Those with a conventional faith have adopted the beliefs and values of the surrounding faith community, but have done so uncritically and without deep reflection.

community of believers

kerygma (story, preaching), leitourgia (worship and sacrament), diakonia (mission and service), koinonia (intimate community), and paideia (formation