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most denomination which puts much emphasis on evangelization. From the publications of the church, it is learned that a "Teachers and Students for Christ Campaign" was started in all Lutheran schools in 1983. The schools are now taken as bases for evangelization work reaching students for God.
The Methodist Church also regards evangelization as an important objective of involvement in education. A special feature of this denomination is that it equates Christian education (education in church schools) with Christian nurture, and Biblical references are frequently used in their writings and discussions about school education. Issues on 'human nature', 'human growth', 'education', etc. are viewed through a Biblical perspective. The data from the questionnaire survey reveals that the Methodist Church has a strong inclination towards 'providing Christian nurture among students' as the top priority (Refer to Table 2).
Literature from the Baptist Convention shows that the Baptist Church regards education as very important, yet she has not neglected evangelistic work in schools. The Baptist Church is able to maintain a balance of the two (education vs. evangelization) when compared with the other denominations. The Baptist Church has a virtuous tradition of 'democracy and freedom'. They therefore highly respect the freedom of the students. Although they regard evangelistic work in schools as important, they never impose religious beliefs on students. On the other hand, they can infuse the Christian faith into their educational ideals. The survey reveals that the Baptist Church regards education as very important and she comes second in ranking 'education for the whole person' as the top priority for educational ideals (Refer to Table 2).
The perception of supervisors, principals, and panel chairmen (or teachers) on church involvement in education does not vary much. Table 3 shows that supervisors, principals, and teachers were mostly under the column 'regard both as important', with the percentage 38.46%, 33.87%, and 35.29%, respectively. The second largest group of teachers belongs to 'regard education as quite important' (25%). Besides, there is a remarkably high percentage of supervisors who belong to 'regard evangelization as very important'. The percentage is 15.38%, whereas the overall percentage under the column reads only 4.9%.
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most denomination which puts much emphasis on evangelization. From the publications of the church, it is learned that a "Teachers and Students for Christ Campaign' was started in all Lutheran schools in 1983 The schools are now taken as bases for evangelization work reaching students for God."
The Methodist Church also regards evangelization as an important objective of involvement in education A special feature of this denomination is that it equates Christian education (education in church schools) with Christian nurture, and Biblical references are frequently used in their writings and discussions about school education Issues on ‘human nature', 'human growth', ‘education' etc. are viewed through a Biblical perspective." The data from the questionnaire survey reveals that the Methodist Church has a strong inclination towards 'providing Christian nurture among students' as the top priority (Refer to Table 2).
Literature from the Baptist Convention shows that the Baptist Church regards education as very important, yet she has not neglected evangelistic work in schools, The Baptist Church is able to maintain a balance of the two (education vs, evangelization) when compared with the other denominations. The Baptist Church has a virtuous tradition of 'democracy and freedom'. They therefore highly respect the freedom of the students. Although they regard evangelistic work in schools as important, they never impose religious beliefs on students. On the other hand, they can infuse the Christian faith into their educational ideals." The survey reveals that the Baptist Church regards education as very important and she comes second in ranking ‘education for the whole person' as the top priority for educational ideals (Refer to Table 2)
The perception of supervisors, principals and panel chairmen (or teachers) on church involvement education does not vary much. Table 3 shows that supervisors, principals and teachers were mostly under column 'regard both as important', with the percentage 38.46%, 33.87% and 35.29% respectively. The second largest group of teachers belongs to 'regard education as quite important' (25%). Besides, there is a remarkably high percentage of supervisors belongs to 'regard evangelization as very important'. The percentage is 15.38%, whereas the overall percentage under the column reads only 4.9%;
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