Though there were many preachers in the Korean church history, Rev. Kyung-Gik Han was one of the powerful preachers effected on the Korean church members. Korean church believe he was a faithful pastor and an influential preacher, because he became representative pastor as a symbol of clergymen in the Korean church.
In order to examine the thought represented in the life and sermon of Kyung-Gik Han, it is important to search images of his life as background of his thought. The life and thought of Kyung-Gik Han was a model of images for Korean pastors because he preached with his life and took leadership in union of churches and ecumenical movement. Especially, he offered biblical and theological ground presenting real models of christian life through his sermon.
Main theological thought of Kyung-Gik Han has evangelical characteristic based on the Bible. To begin with, he emphasized evangelical faith route on the basis of the central idea of Bible, Christ, and the Cross. Secondly, his thought was throughly developed on the central idea of the church. Thirdly, he was an open-minded evangelist, and was realized the union of church and the spirit of ecumenism though his whole ministry and activities. He, also, was a key figure for performing ecumenical movement with world churches. Fourthly, he was a patriot establishing democractic country on the basis of Christianity through his whole life. Through his sermon, he made an effort to implant christian patriotism to church members at the period of the 1945 Liberation of Korea and the founding of a country. Fifthly, he stressed not only church dogma and attendance of church, but also practice of christian life. So he realized christian honest and virtuous life. It showed that he was a faithful pastor, an evangelical preacher, a christian patriot, a real educator, an energetic leader of domestic and world mission.

• 서영석(협성대학교) | Suh, Young Suk