Some Western Christians treat dreams as merely psychological phenomena, feeling that dream revelation would seem to be unnecessary under the influence of western perspectives on dreams. Another problem is that too often missionaries treat those who claim to have encountered supernatural beings through the medium of visions or dreams as having active imaginations or as dabbling in the demonic, especially in Asia, Africa, especially Middle East where the islamic influence is dominant. However, dreams and visions are biblical and play an important part in life for people in the Two-Thirds World. God speaks through dreams and visions to convert sinners even today, because many of the unreached are beyond the reach of the gospel and because much of the world is illiterate, dreams and visions may serve to fulfill missio Dei. Thus this study draws out several missiological implications through the comparison between the Biblical perspectives and popular Islam's on the dreams. First, be open to dreams as a mean of communication with God. Second, Encourage dreams in mission field such as Islamic area where the dream influence is dominant. Third, introduce Christian dream interpretation or interpreters into Christian world. Fourth, include the area of dreams in the course of training for minsters as well as missionaries. Fifth, remember that there can be some delay in dream interpretation and sometimes limitation in understanding. Sixth, put the Bible as the exclusive medium of special revelation, whereas dreams and visions are at best only supplementary and secondary. New converts must learn to examine their dreams and visions in the light of Scripture. When we go back to the Bible, and allow the dream as a mean of God's salvific communication, the missionaries who work in the Islamic territories with the holistic biblical perspectives on the matter of dreams will experience God's visible work more abundantly in their missions.

• 김성익(삼육대학교, 선교학) | Kim Sung Ik