Extending Sunday Preaching into Homes with the Help of Parents

Paul Ma

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Extending Sunday Preaching into Homes with the Help of Parents

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Helping Parents Extend Sunday Preaching into Homes: The Domestic Church and the Chinese-Canadian Setting

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Paul Ma

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Domestic Church; Christian Parenting, Chinese Canadian; Preaching; Parent Community; Christian Family

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Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

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Helping Parents Extend Sunday Preaching into Homes: The Domestic Church and the Chinese-Canadian Setting

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Parents preach to their children with or without faith. Christian parents preach to their children, with or without formation. However, the difference lies between have and have-not faith, formed and not formed. This thesis project is to design a Christian parent formation program based on community, communion, and commission (the 3C). It encourages partnership between Christian parents and between ordained ministers and Christian parents. The goal is to enable Christian parents to be effective Gospel preachers in their domestic Church, a term coined by St. Augustine Hippo in the 4th century and affirmed by the Second Vatican Council. The first chapter outlines the thesis project’s genesis, ministerial context, problem, purpose, hypothesis, assumptions, and limitations. Chapter 2 explores the interdisciplinary foundation. The extensive sociological studies of the 2005 Vern L. Bengtson report and the 2021 Christian Smith report anchored parents’ significant role in intergenerational faith transmission. Chinese culture and immigrant study provide further context for the foundation. Chapter 3 investigates the theological framework based on viewing the Christian family as a domestic Church, a fruit of the Second Vatican Council. This chapter further explores the relationship between the Church and the domestic Church and the practices of the domestic Church. Chapter 4 establishes the thesis project’s homiletic foundation. This chapter discusses Christian parents as preachers in the domestic Church and their preaching as dialogue, witnesses, and storytelling. Ten mothers and six fathers participated in the 3C Parent Preacher Formation Program from January 16 to April 4, 2024. Chapter 5 presents this pilot project in detail. Chapter 6 discusses the result of the pilot project, including qualitative and quantitative data, and how the result supports the hypothesis laid out in Chapter 1. The chapter also reflects lessons learned, areas of improvement, and future opportunities.

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