Rapid, sometimes dramatic changes associated with sociopolitics, culture and world-views make the people of today face challenges and duties which in due course call for specific kind of education and upbringing, so as man is able to meet the challenges and find a sense of life in a multicultural society. We often hear questions posed in the context today’s difficult changes and present-day dramas – How to bring people up in the times stigmatised with holocaust, gulag force labour camps, terrorism? How to bring people up in truth and love, when life has been dominated with violence and cruelty? How to teach life, when moral relativism has become omnipresent and the “make the most of life” civilisation has attracted the youngest generation? A whole array of persistent questions is also addressed at religions, Christianity, particular Churches, and religious education. Some of them are quoted here: Does it still make sense to bring people up in accordance with the Laws bestowed on people on Sinai? Is there any future for Gospel-based upbringing? What does Christianity have to offer with respect to upbringing? How to realise the Church’s educational mission in a multicultural society? This study does not provide ready-made solutions as the answer to the later questions. It clearly indicates the values which take from Jesus Christ’s gospel as well as Christian upbringing heritage which is more twenty centuries old. Today’s Christian Churches face the obligation of organic work; there should be fewer slogans and more mystagogue inspired by the richness of gospel’s message, tradition and liturgical heritage, attractiveness of the Decalogue’s and the Sermon on the Mount’s moral injunctions.
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