대럴 구더의 선교적 신학과 교회론

Abstract

Darrell Guder aims to transform from mission and theology to missional theology. For that process, he emphasizes that Christians should get out of the legacy of Christendom and the reductionism of the gospel. The theology of Christendom rarely concerns mission as a major discipline. And the gospel has been reduced to mainly provide an individual salvation in North America. In fact, salvation and witnessing of the gospel cannot be separated but many Christians accept the benefit of the gospel but barely take a vocation of witnessing. Guder claims, “the concern of missional theology is that this central commitment to evangelization should itself be defined by the following conviction: the very call to follow Christ is a call to become a fisher of people, an invitation to join God’s mission and become part of the witness to the inbreaking reign of God”(Guder, 2006:3). For Guder, the definition of missional hermeneutics is “the basic assumption undergirding our interpretation of all New Testament literature: the missional vocation of each community, their sense of themselves as called into being for the continuation of apostolic witness”(Guder, 2007:108). Guder reinterprets the Nicene Marks with an apostolic emphasis to revitalize the struggling mainline denominations of the church in North America and the stagnate state of the ecumenical movements. Guder argues that the contemporary challenge for Christianity in North America is the transformation from church with mission to missional church. It does not means that the churches in the North America have to do more foreign missions or focus only on home missions. Rather, he claims the churches should recover the nature of church, which is the mission of God. Each church should be recognized her vocation of witnessing the gospel in any given situation. For doing that she needs continuous conversion by the Holy Spirit in Christ.