Holy Trinity College
Augustinian Recollect Sisters
Alangalang, Leyte
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Theology 3 – Ecclesiology
QUARTER 1 Grade 12-ABM Oct. 11-22,
Module 4 Wednesday 2:00-5:00 pm
2021
Week 7 & 8 Ms. Joenabeth V. Morbos
09702931696/09306410987
Name of the Learner: ___________________________________________
Signature of Parents/ Guardians: _____________
Title of the Topic: The Models of the Church
PCSS/ Learning Standards: S3- An excellent Catholic School is impelled by a mission to proclaim,
give witness and transmit the Christian faith with new methods, new expressions, and new fervor towards
a transformed society and a new way of being church.
Specific Objectives:
1. Describe the Models of the Church.
2. Identify what model is strongly practiced in the Philippine Church.
3. Appraise one’s contribution to the services of the Church to the people.
Values Integration:
-I am Christ-centered
Prayer:
Our Father
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day, our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Our
Directions: Read the contents and follow theMother of Consolation,
instructions Praythe
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Presentation of the Lesson
Church As An Institution
The Church is seen as “the perfect
society” -- as a political society alongside
any other government. This is the “Roman”
side of the Roman Catholicism, the structure
of which was designed after the brilliance of
the hierarchical (vs. representative or
democratic) administration of the Roman
Empire, whose virtues were efficiency and
accountability.
The church is seen as on the giving (vs.
receiving) end of the three functions of ;
teaching, (professing approved doctrines), sanctifying (administering legitimate sacraments)
and ruling (governing faith and morals). These are the Clerics (Pope, bishops, priests and
deacons responsible to the laity).
-The main focus of this model is within, toward those already in the institution vs. those
outside. The scriptural foundation for this model is Matthew 16:18: “You are Peter and
upon this rock I will build my church.”
-The advantages of this model are a strong endorsement by official Church documents in the
past few centuries, continuity with the past and a strong sense of corporate identity.
1Cor. 12). “As the body is one, having many members, and all the members, while being
many, form one body, so it is with Christ.”
This is a worshiping community of believers who by their faith become a
sign and instrument of the union of God and man.
Church as Sacrament:
Christ is the Sacrament (the visible form of an invisible grace) of God, so the Church is
the Sacrament of Christ. The seven
Sacraments flow from this identity. This
designation sets the mission of the Church
clearly as one of holiness: to be a sign of
God’s grace in a world needful of
redemption. This model challenges the
Church to be more like Christ in its
dealings with everyone. Since the
Eucharist is the central Sacrament of the
seven, the Church takes on the challenge
of being the prayerful, liturgical presence
in the world while at the same time calling
the world to “table fellowship,” that is, to the conditions of cooperation, friendship and
exchange which are characteristic of those who dine together.
The advantage of this model is its ability to serve as job description for the
Church , along which lines its performance can be evaluated.
The Church is understood as the visible manifestation of the grace of Christ
in the human community.
Church as Herald:
Church as Community (Body of Christ) It gives prominence to a
This model stresses the personal and the theology of Word : That Jesus
interpersonal, the fellowship of persons with God as the WORD OF GOD (John
and with each other. It stems from “the house 1), preaches the word (gospel as
church” structure of the first decades of Christianity, “good news”) of the Kingdom
wherein the associations were face-to-face, the (Mark 1:15) and commissions
organization fluid, relations were covenantal (vs. his disciples to spread that word
contractual), the numbers small (30 to 40) and the and WORD (message and
participants intimate. The Scriptural precedent is Person) to all people (Matt. 28;
strong: the Church is “Body of Christ” (Rom. 12, Acts 2). The “job description”
of the Church as Herald is clear: to evangelize, that is to receive the good news and to
pass it on.
Evangelizers stay true to their task if they are themselves evangelized. Language
has an assembling function: shared meaning constitutes us into human communities.
This language can separate us, as at Babel or unify us, when we enculturate.
Church as Herald- a faithful people who “hear the word of God and keep it” by
putting their faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior and proclaiming the Christ-event in their
lives.
well. Church structures in any age is to see institutions of learning, from the Orders of
Catechumens and Penitents in the early Church to general education schools today. Jesus
spent all of his public life gathering and educating disciples. The sensitivity of the
Church to different conditions of the learner has lead to distinction, not only between
pedagogy (children’s education) and andragogy (adult education) but among stages of
evangelization (the process of receiving and spreading the good news).
ACTIVITY:
Directions: Answer the following questions.
1. How is your thinking challenged the most by this lesson? Explain.
2. Which Model do you think is the strongest here in the Philippines? Why?
3. Which Model do you think is the most problematic in its “manifestation”? Why?
Church as Servant : 4. How should the Church be governed?
5. What is the relationship between one who believes (you) and the Church?
This model sets the church in a
subordinate role to the world, just as Jesus General Instruction: Write your answers on a sheet of paper.
washed his disciples’ feet and commissioned
them to do likewise (John 13). This model
has inspired Church sponsored institutions of
charity (hospitals, soup kitchen, Thank you and God bless!
sanctuaries, prison chaplaincies) as well as
prophetic voices which speak out against
societal injustice (pacifism, human rights
advocacy, political lobbying, etc.) A danger
of this model is that one may be tempted to think subordination means obedience to the
world, whereas the Church serves the world by obeying God.
Church as Servant –A redeemed people who have the mandate to establish in this
world Christ’s kingship of peace, justice, love and reconciliation.
Church as School of Discipleship:
This is the process of learning
(disciple means learner) into the “job
description” of the Church: becoming
organized, communal, holy, evangelical and
serving all involve the Church in a process of
education which not only informs a person,
but forms him and her, and transforms as
