Pastor and professor Carmichael Crutchfield, steeped in current scholarship and lifetime of experience in the Black American church, contributes to the study of Christian education to expand our understanding of education to encompass the larger life and ministry of the church. Dr. Crutchfield includes practices of testimony, worship, and preaching to more traditional classroom contexts of Sunday church school and midweek Bible study and further develops the concept of Christian education in light of spiritual formation to include an orientation toward forming the Christian disciple in the likeness and character of Jesus Christ. The book provides constructive definitions of Christian education and faith formation, as well as clarity about formation processes across all ages and seasons of life.
