선교적 교회의 실천적 모델과 원리 - 한국교회 현장으로부터 배우는 선교적 교회

Abstract

The missional church that is being discussed by the Korean theologian contains the contents which local churches challenge and practice as the missional tasks newly in local communities. Mission, from the established viewpoint, has been understood largely as activities which are performed in foreign missional regions. Now the missional church, without ignoring the dimensions of the World Mission, is dealing with the way to realize the region which today’s churches belong to as the mission fields and to access it at the same time.Nowadays the Korean local churches are having severe difficulty in mission work because of their low growth, the hardship of evangelical activities in their community, and some distrust in local churches from this society. What is still more serious is that local churches do not have theoretical basis and support to deal with such problems. Therefore, the theologian should make joint efforts for the methods to solve such realistic problems they are undergoing by making an approach to these local churches. In this regard, Mission does not mean the old paradigm to distinguish between Local Mission and Foreign Mission any longer. It is society’s trust in local churches that is urgently needed in the mission towards the local community. Currently, the only way for the Korean churches to recover society’s trust and be acceptable is to get the communities’ trust in the level of local churches, and not in the level of the Korean Church. As far as the writer is concerned, it is a large harvest to discover that there are the possibilities for the Korean churches not only to recover society’s trust and be acceptable but also to have positive effects on changes in their community by my various case studies.The focus on this article is to present the missional church’s realistic practical principles to apply through communicating with pastors in the local churches by finding out a variety of types of missional Church in practical model churches which are discovered in the Korean Church’s situation. These practical principles are derived from the result of things which this writer has researched on the domestic churches for a long time. It is natural that these principles, not being absolute criterion, need to get complemented continuously. Prospecting such a developmental process, I present missional Church’s practical principles to apply in the local churches in this article.