Escola bíblica dominical contemporânea: crises, paradigmas e perspectivas

Abstract

The research theme is the Sunday School (EBD), a formation institution of the Evangelical Church Assembly of God in Amazonas (IEADAM). The research seeks to understand the crises, paradigms and perspectives of contemporary EBD. The crises of modernity and the constant paradigm shifts in society also affect church membership. Therefore, there is a need to search for possibilities of action in this context. Therefore, based on bibliographical research, with documentary sources from IEADAM, the research defends the thesis that distance teaching and education have all the prerogatives to dynamize the thematic and systematic teaching of the Sunday School of the Assembly of God Church in the Amazons. Therefore, it proposes the use of digital media and social networks as a media resource capable of socializing the Sunday School and expanding the number of people participating in the study of the Bible through distance learning. For this, it contextualizes the EBD and presents the historical emergence of its model, analyzes the causes of the crisis of the reduction of Christian people enrolled in relation to the number of members and congregates of IEADAM, in order to then propose distance teaching and education in virtual communities of the same interest using the resources of digital media, platforms and social networks to teach the Bible. It was found that contemporary EBD only stimulates discipleship and has left evangelization in the background, and that it is concerned only with the Christian education of members and congregants, leaving aspects of integral education for the formal teaching of public and private schools. It was concluded that the media resources through digital platforms and social networks give dynamism to EBD distance learning in a virtual community of the same interest, allowing people to obtain the teaching material of the Bible lessons in digital format to study the Bible overcoming the barriers of time and space.