A THESIS
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The
prevalence of immoral living among members in church has grown to
a level that creates fear and tension in the heart of anyone in church and her
spiritual life, mostly in Edo South District of
Assemblies of God, Nigeria. Immoral living has taken the place of morality
among members today. Moral, according to Webster’s Universal Dictionary and
Thesaurus, is an adjectival word that is “of or related to character,
particularly as regards to right from wrong. Amato (1990) opined that, immoral
living refers
to the principles concerning turning right to wrong, good behaviour to bad
behaviour. (p.73) Dotonu (2011) observed
that, immoral
living as an act of sexual
immorality and fraudulent practices is one of the most common immoral acts
among members in the church today.(p.142) Davies (2013) he pointed among other
that, jealousy, killing, lies, adultery, fornication, theft, heresies, pride
are several immoral acts and are against the will of God. (p. 57)The enormity
of change within society, and the implications of these changes have dawned
slowly on some segments of the Church...
One of the surest ways of curbing this menace will be through Christian education of church members in Edo South District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria. Randolph (2019) refers to Christian education as the belief that all learning and truth is ultimately from God and must be understood through a close understanding of the Bible. (p.46) Christian education can be defined as comprising two basic concepts: (1) The efforts of Christians to transmit their Scriptural beliefs and practices to the next generation, and (2) the efforts of Christians to nurture and edify one another spiritually.(p.67)...
1.2 STATEMENT OF
THE PROBLEM
The major problem plaguing the church not doubt is immoral living. The influence of immoral living among members in the church today is very alarming, this according to Jamie Mayerfeld (2005) comes in the form bad habit or criminal behavior, which includes gambling, violence and thuggery, exam malpractice, pre-marital sex, pornography, masturbation, drugs abuse /substance in-take and other forms of immoral behavior.(p, 58)...
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This purpose of this thesis will be to examine
Christian education, as a panacea to curbing immoral living among church
members in Edo South District, Nigeria. Specific objectives:
1. To
investigate the problems of immoral living among church members in Edo South
District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria.
2. To
find out the causes of among the church members in Edo South District of
Assemblies of God, Nigeria.
3. To
examine the effects of the problem of immoral living of the members in Edo
South District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria.
4. To
find out how Christian education can assist in curbing the problems of immoral
living of the members in Edo South District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria.
5. To
suggest relevance solutions to curbing immoral living among members through
Christian Education in Edo South
District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What
are the problems of immoral living among church members in Edo South District
of Assemblies of God, Nigeria?
2. What
are the causes of immoral living among church members in Edo South District of
Assemblies of God, Nigeria?
3. What
are the effects of the problem of immoral living of the members in Edo South
District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria?
4. How
can Christian education assist in curbing the problems of immoral living of the
members in Edo South District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria?
5. Are
there relevance solutions to curbing immoral living among members through
Christian Education in Edo South District of Assemblies of God, Nigeria?
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The
study will be of immense benefit to the church members, Edo South District of
Assemblies of God Nigerian, ministers of the gospel and researchers.
To the church
members of Edo South District of Assemblies of God Nigerian, Christian education will expose
them to the reality to work in the light of scripture to overcome immoral
living. It will be useful to them because will enable them to adequately
understand the nature and concept of immoral living among church members and
how to curb the continuous spread of it among church
members. To the researcher, the findings will be useful to researchers for
further studies.
To the church leaders, this study
will bring to their notice that lack of peaceful co-existence is as a result of
lack of proper information on the subject matter. Therefore, this study will
increase their knowledge and understanding
on the power of theology to install societal development and bring about
among their members of the church and the society at large.
To the theologians it will
prompt them to have a working knowledge of
societal peace and harmony among
Christian. Theologians could also get some
information from the study which can stand as a teaching guide on sound
theological bases on curbing immoral living among church members.
To the researchers, this study
will therefore, provide adequate resource material to fill the gap and also
serve as a source materials for developing further studies on immoral living
among members.
1.6 DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY
This study
will be limited in scope to Christian education, a panacea to curbing immoral
living among church members in Edo South District of Assemblies of God,
Nigeria.
It will cover Edo
South District of Assemblies of God Nigerian which is under Oredo
local government area, Edo state.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
Insufficient
fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the
relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data
collection. In a bid to overcome these limitation, the researcher consequently
cut down on the on necessary expenses and devoted his fund to a more severe
area of the research work.
Time
constrain is one of the greatest impediment in carrying out this research. The
researcher was limited in gathering all the information needed in this study.
The researcher only made used of selected information and few academic work.
1.8 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This study is based on functionalist theory was
propounded by Emile Durkheim (1964) which stated that, the
different parts of society are primarily composed of social institutions, each
designed to fill different needs. Family, government, economy, media,
education, and religion are important to understanding this theory and the core
institutions that define sociology. According to functionalism, an institution
only exists because it serves a vital role in the functioning of society. If it
no longer serves a role, an institution will die away. When new needs evolve or
emerge, new institutions will be created to meet them....
Durkheim (1964) stated that, "the totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness." (p, 136)....
1.9 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
Christian
Education: seek to equip students to recognize
the Lordship of Christ in all subject areas of learning, and to respond in
obedience to His call to be transforming influences in society.
Panacea:
a solution or remedy
for all difficulties or diseases.
Immoral
Living: violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct
usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and
social ethics.
Members: a
person belonging to a particular group.
Church members:
congregant - a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or
synagogue).
Curbing: to
control or limit something in order to prevent it from having a harmful effect.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW
OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter review literature that are related to the research
study...........
CHAPTER
THREE
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
This chapter captures the methodology and procedure
applied to gather relevant information for this research study. It comprises of
research design, population and sampling, research instrument, validity of
the Instrument, administration of instrument and method of data collection and
analysis......
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION
AND ANALYSIS OF DATA AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
The focus of this chapter is to present the findings
obtained from the data collected and to discuss the analysis made out of the
research questions.......
CHAPTER
FIVE
SUMMARY,
CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES
This chapter consists of summary, conclusion,
recommendations and suggestions for further studies which is as follows:.…...
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