The year 2012 is the 20th anniversary year since Korea formed friendly relationships with China. Though Korea and China, China and Korea have exchanged their friendly relationships with each other over thousands of years, the exchanges have been performed the most actively for the recent ten years. Active exchanges which are performed in the economical, cultural, and academic level beyond the field of the political exchanges between Korea and China result in the result to make both countries’ societies abundant. Furthermore such relationships between two countries are expected to play a big role in realizing the peace among Northeast Asian regions. This article was written for two purposes. The first purpose is to describe how important the meanings and roles of religions are in the societies where secularistic values dominate the society, atheistic tendencies become widespread, and the necessity of religions become weakening. The second purpose is to correct the distorted faith that the existing Christianity and the Church free the scope of their faith from the worldly or social level and reduce the faith and responsibility of the Christianity within individuals and the Church and to recover those responsibilities of the Christianity and the Church’s. In this article, the positive aspects connoted within the religions are discussed in the missionary level in the time when negative viewpoints on the social positions and roles of the religions are becoming widespread after the modern society. In the text of this article, the social roles which religions have performed are presented in three perspectives. Three perspectives are roles of the social integration, generation of the morality norms, and the recovery of the social community that contribute to maintenance of the social stability and order. Some encourage is needed to express religions in modernism and postmodern era which claims uselessness and unnecessary of the religion. To mention the meanings and roles of the religion and to communicate with people in missionrestricted areas, this article focuses on attempting conversations about the meanings and roles of Christianity with people who expect the healthy development of the society whether they are religious people or not by trying roundabout approach.

• 한국일(장로회신학대학교, 선교학) | Kook Il Han