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This study rejects the general trend in Korean churches today that there is no future for Korean churches because children are decreasing and Sunday schools are disappearing. Nevertheless, many children still attend church, and many churches are doing their best to educate children through Sunday schools and teachers.
In these encouraging efforts, we begin with the concern that what we should prepare for the future of the church should be to focus on raising the next generation as spiritual leaders who embrace the values of the kingdom of God based on the Bible.
This paper is a study on how much of the next generation of Sunday school children will grow into the next generation with a Bible-centered faith when pastors with such concerns conduct their ministries with a methodology suitable for raising the next generation.
And the methodology suitable for this study is 'Tong Bible.' By applying the methodology of Tong Bible, which can convey the big picture of the kingdom of God through stories in ministries related to the next generation, it is also a work to confirm what kind of functional results are derived for raising the next generation.
The conclusion reached through interviews with teachers who worked together on the 'Tong Bible – Story Ministry', with children who experienced it, and with the students' survey is that rather than focusing on whether it is a 'big church' or a 'small church' or whether there are many or few children in the church, what we should focus more on is the fact that each of us should tell the children the entire Bible as a 'Story' and raise the next generation as 'One Person' who embraces the values of the great kingdom of God, and that we should all become 'One Person' who does our best in such ministry.
I hope that everyone who comes across this research will sympathize with and put into practice this fact.
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