Escola Bíblica Dominical no PECC: um projeto de aperfeiçoamento da educação cristã na IEADAM

Abstract

The research theme is the Sunday Bible School (EBD), proposed by the Continuing Christian Education Program (PECC), and education at the Evangelical Church Assembly of God in Amazonas (IEADAM). EBD is one of the main teaching agencies of the Christian church in recent centuries, providing the elementary and necessary foundation in building people's faith and for teaching IEADAM's membership. EBD reaches children, adolescents, young people and adults. The research questions the preparation for the exercise of people's Christian life, as well as teacher preparation, curriculum formulation, didactics, methodology and assessment applied to answer the question about how EBD, proposed by PECC, can improve the education in the Evangelical Church Assembly of God in Amazonas. The research therefore aims to analyze the dynamics of EBD functioning proposed by the PECC, which consists of a curriculum and certification in Basic Theology, and the impact of this training on Church membership. This research is qualitative, based on an exploratory approach, with participatory research procedures, using a closed questionnaire with EBD students to collect data, and a semi-structured interview with EBD students and superintendents and with pastors responsible for the church. It is structured in three chapters, contextualizing EBD, its historical relationship with the Assembly of God, especially with theology itself. It then outlines an overview of the education program in its operation, evaluates the educational cycles experienced at EBD in its new model, in addition to an analysis of the early years of PECC. Finally, the analyses of the data collected during the field research are presented. Only the epistemic locus could have provided the discovery of knowledge and, because of that, the research also points to new possibilities in a future of EBD expansion in the PECC.