Christian Education in the Family Efforts to Build Children’s Faith Resilience in the Era of Disruption

Abstract

The resilience of children's faith is very crucial in the current era of disruption considering the changes that occur bring various serious challenges due to the increasingly high complexity of life. Facing this problem, parents, as educators in the family, are required to consciously develop efforts so that children's faith resilience is built to be strong so that they are able to face all life difficulties and solve problems according to the truth of God's word. This research aims to describe the importance of children's faith resilience in this era of disruption and provide analysis results on how to develop children's faith resilience and the impact it has. The research has a qualitative descriptive method by choosing a literature study approach. The results of the research found: first, to be able to face it properly and bring eternal salvation is to stick to and study the Scriptures. Second, experience. This pillar becomes the second principle for growing children's faith resilience --after knowledge --that must be applied in family Christian education. Third, practice. This pillar is a chance for children to apply or practice the experiences they have gone through in dealing with life's problems. Through this pillar, children will learn to live with others, build a social community to learn to put the interests of others above their own.