The purpose of this study is to explore the German Pietism movement, the church renewal of England and the spiritual awakening movement of America’s churches from the view point of mission history. This study found out that each movement has close relationship to each other. The above mentioned variables also had a direct influential power to the social problems. These were the facts that made churches more vital and boosted activities of churches in history. This paper analyzed the contemporary situations of the Korean churches after 100th anniversary of Pyungyang revival movement in 1907. All the Church Renewal movements for both the Korean churches and the foreign churches has one thing in common: How to get out of the past mannerism and how to get rid of those practical ways which are being performed until these days. It is very important to look back to the situations between the “Past” and the “Present” from the Pyungyang revival movement in Korea because the situations of present korean churches are similar to those of the past churches. The Afghanistan hostage incident which happened last summer 2007 left so many questions to the Korean Churches: why they could not stand for oversea missions, how crucial it is for them and what's the real cause of this problem. Because of that hostage taking, the people nowadays think that Korean churches lost their social responsibility and they think there’s no place for them outside the church. With the essential findings of this study we can predict the ways of reviving the Korean church and Church Renewal. We just need to open our mind and think about Pyungyang revival movement.

• 황순환(대전신대 교수, 선교학) | Hwang Soon-hwan