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Az ifjúsági misszió kérdése egyre aktuálisabbá vált az utóbbi időszakban. Erre nézve azonban nincs egységes elképzelés. Azok, akik foglalkoznak a témával a legjobb tudásuk szerint végzik, mégis gyakran elhangzik az, hogy valamit másképp kellene tenni. Mi legyen ez a másképp? Az ifjúsági misszióban a tanítványképzés, nevelés egyre nagyobb visszhangot kap, több módszer született erre. Nem egyetlen jó módja létezik annak ahogyan tanítvánnyá kell tenni, nevelni a fiatalokat, a több elképzelés közül azt kell mindig megtalálni ifjúságunk számára, amelyikkel a leginkább közelebb tudjuk hozni számukra az evangéliumot. Ebben segítené a gondolkodást ez a dolgozat a missziológiai hangsúlyok megfogalmazásával, illetve konkrét segítséget, ha úgy tetszik, módszert fogalmaz meg, együttműködést ajánl egy tapasztalattal rendelkező, tanítványnevelő ifjúsági misszióval foglalkozó szervezettel.

Not all pastor's children remain close to the Church, despite the fact that they grew up in a religious environment and had the example and model of Christian living. The theoretical objective of my thesis is to explore pastor's children's motivations for living a pious life. For there can be external and internal motivation. The external motivation is when the pastor's child practices godly living and godly speaking, but not from an internal motivation, not from faith. They are not living a godly lifestyle because they feel they need to and because it is of value to them, but they are just living up to expectations. They behave and speak as expected by their parents, their congregation or their environment. They live godly lives either for external recognition and reward, such as the recognition of the church community or the pride of their parents, or perhaps to earn God's approval.

This paper is an expanded and somewhat more elaborated version of an earlier study in which I tried to give a general overview on the word-usage concerning the passion of Jesus Christ in the early Christian creeds. The purpose of this short paper is in part to give a comparative presentation of the sufferings of Lord Jesus Christ in the Western Creeds, and in part I also try to define the role of mentioning the name of Pontius Pilatus in them.

In this short paper I would like to provide a comparative analysis of the passages concerning the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Early Christian confessions (among them the Apostolic Creed1 as well), because these passages are frequently the source of theological misunderstanding and debates. The main question which urged me to do this research had occurred in relation with the Apostolic Creed. How do we say correctly: ‘I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell…’ or ‘I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered, under Pontius Pilate He was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell…’? I shall try to answer this question by analysing the relevant passages of the creeds which were composed in the first six centuries.