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This study critically re-evaluates home-based Christian education in the post-COVID-19 era, with particular attention to storytelling and Havruta as integrative and dialogical pedagogical frameworks. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the structural fragility of church-centered models of faith formation, as the suspension of in-person worship significantly disrupted intergenerational transmission of faith. In this context, parents in their thirties and forties experienced acute spiritual burnout, which intensified the tendency to externalize religious education to ecclesial institutions, thereby fundamentally undermined their role as primary agents of faith formation.
In response, this study proposes a "Family-Linked Table Havruta" model that reconfigures the household as a primary locus of theological formation and lived praxis. Moving beyond hierarchical and didactic paradigms, the model emphasizes dialogical engagement through narrative participation, mutual inquiry, and relational coconstruction of meaning. This pedagogical shift seeks to restore parental spiritual agency and to rearticulate the family as a formative site of embodied faith.
To assess the practical viability of this model, a qualitative ministry-based intervention was conducted at Bucheon Church from March 2025 to March 2026. The intervention established a liturgical-pedagogical continuum linking narrative preaching in corporate worship with dialogical practices within the domestic sphere. The findings indicate that this integrative approach facilitated meaningful intergenerational communication centered on shared biblical narratives and contributed to the reconstitution of the household as an ecclesiola (a "little church" with the household).
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