New Roles of the Church in Korea with the Scope of the Missional Church

Abstract

The world, especially Western society is rapidly transforming into a multicultural society through changes in various social, religious and cultural factors. Especially, in the area of religion, Christendom is no longer a predominant western mold that shapes society and the church has lost its influence. Korea is no exception. Therefore, those changes in churches call for a new trial for fulfilling its mission from God. However, since the concept of the Missional church was introduced to the world for the first time in the late 1980`s, many church leaders and theologians have studied and developed it so that the church can have bright insight for applying it to the situations that the church is facing. The missional church concept is very helpful for making a breakthrough to bind both the old and new generations under a deep and comprehensive understanding and to confirm the possibility of its application to the Korean church. Therefore, in this study, several practical pastoral ideas were suggested for the paradigm shift to develop its concept and to apply it to the present situation of the church in Korea.