Recently, most Christians in Korean have felt shame at watching the status quo of Korean protestantism. Almost everyday, we Christians faced unpleasant news about churches and clergies. At the same time, Christians feel the crisis of church growth and mission. At this moment, it would be significant and meaningful to search for the church reforms in the history of Christianity and to be taught from the past. For this reason, the writer investigated several historical events which caused the church reform consciously or unconsciously. As a result of this research, several types of church reform in the church history could be described as follows. The first case of church reform was accomplished for the purpose of the ecclesiastical and the social change by means of the political struggle. Second, for the purpose of the ecclesiastical and the social change by the revolutionary method. Third, for the purpose of structural subversion by the political struggle. Finally, for the purpose of structural subversion by the revolution. Among these four, because the second type of reform is illogical, the writer would consider the others. The rest of three cases of reform, however, whether it would be successful or not, had the limitation that could not have accomplished the fundamental reform of problems in their own era. For this, the writer has looked for the another way which was named as the fifth way of reformation and the writer considered it as true church reform. Also, it was regarded a genuine church reform as the most effective way of mission. As the fifth way of reform in the church history, the writer analyzed three historical events: the way of St. Francis and his mendicant movement in the twelfth century; the way of religious movement of Beguine in the thirteenth century; and the way of methodist movement of John Wesley in the eighteenth century. The characteristics of these movement would be as follows. First of all, these movements did not happen to struggle or criticize the existing church power and social structure directly. Secondly, even though there were leading persons in these movements, these movements were empowered by the anonymous laities. Thirdly, the participants of these movements proliferated and flourished very rapid within very limited times. Finally, They were so creative that they created new idea, theology, philosophy, and life styles. In conclusion, the writer proposed the fifth way as the ideal both for church reform and growth simultaneously. Through the fifth way, the people who are sick and tired to churches and protestantism in Korea might come into the world of hope, new spirituality, and creative life that they have never felt in the existing ecclesiastical structure. Then, new Christian communities will proliferate such as the above creative religious movements.

The present study is an investigation of young Korean Protestants’ views of other faiths and how they understand mission and evangelism based on those views. The empirical research shows that a considerable number of young Korean Christians have now embraced pluralistic viewpoint concerning other religions, along with the postmodern relativistic perspective about truth claims. This research concludes that both perspectives weaken the motive of traditional Christian evangelism and mission toward people of other faiths. The empirical research also indicates the urgency to recognize pluralistic and relativistic tendencies among young Korean Protestants in the history of the Korean Protestant Church. In other words, the emerging pluralistic and postmodern viewpoint, which is gaining popularity among young Koreans, is beginning to compete with the dominant traditional Korean Protestant exclusivistic theology of religions. Thus, we are beginning to see the competition between exclusivism and pluralism or relativism (religious and postmodern). An important missional issue regarding exclusivism and pluralism is that both can easily fail to engage people of other faiths. While the exclusivists close their mind and try not to listen to people of other faiths, the pluralists think it unnecessary to share the Christian faith. As a result they both have that the tendency to avoid engaging with the ‘other,’ that is, people of other faiths. In response, the researcher suggests “dialogical evangelism,” with the intention to escape the missional dangers post by both exclusivism and pluralism, and to encourage Christians to engage the ‘others’ in dialogue and love for evangelism. Having taken other faiths into consideration since the 1910 Edinburgh Conference of the World Missionary Conference, many mission thinkers have become involved in how to do missions toward people of other faiths. The dialogical approach to people of other faiths has proved to be a desirable way of doing missions. On the other hand, evangelicals have argued that its ultimate goal should be evangelism. Therefore, integrating the strengths of these two approaches, for the Korean Protestant Church and the new generation of Christians, the researcher suggests dialogical evangelism as the most viable approach to people of other faiths.

This study seeks to understand why Shantung mission was the only cross-cultural mission work done by the Korean church in 1913-1957 while the focus of other mission works was the Diaspora Koreans and its implications for today's mission work of the Korean church. The Korean church clearly demonstrated its evangelistic zeal by sending its missionaries to Jeju Island, Manchuria, Russia, Japan, Hawaii and Shantung. However, it is interesting that it was only Shantung mission that was cross-cultural in nature, while all others were targeting Koreans living overseas. This study briefly looks at those early missionary enterprise in different regions, which at the end points to the foundational difference between Shantung mission and other missions in other places. They share many things in common, they both were initiated by the church, they both show the missionray zeal, they both were done while they did not have sufficient resources, they both have sacrificial indiviuals. However, Shantung mission stands as the only cross-cultural mission work. While fully agreeing that Shantung mission was exclusively ministered, gorverned and financed by the Korean church, this study suggests that Shantung mission was the only cross-cultural mission enterprise because it was initiated by a missionary, possibly with the help of a missionary board. Some previous studies seem to overlook the fact that W. B. Hunt took a significant role in planning and preparing Shantung mission, mediating between mission boards, the Chinese church and the Korean church. This study, then, goes further to discuss what the Korean church may learn from this historical event.

This article aims to offer the changing and missional response to the Middle East from social, cultural, and religious perspectives. The paper explains causes of Jasmine Revolution; such as lack needs of human being, reject about absolute power, and social network. Consequently, Jasmine Revolution came out democracy in the Middle East countries, and social participation and change of women. In this countries, the role of women in the great upheaval in the Middle East has been woefully under-analysed. Women in Egypt did not just join the protests – they were a leading force behind the cultural evolution that made the protests inevitable. And what is true for Egypt is true, to a greater and lesser extent, throughout the Arab world. When women change, everything changes, and women in the Muslim world are changing radically. I think that Christians mission forms in the Middle East, As an indigenous community their displacement would cause a fundamental change to the identity of the region and its future development. Their contribution to the civilization society, trust and position of Islam women is immense changing. Thus, the Christian mission should be introduce being of Jesus Christ and the spirit of God. I now have a clearer contemporary perspective on Christianity mission in the Middle East. While many Christian mission can do appreciate the consideration of the Middle East, in the place where Christianity originated, it is tried to Muslim people.

The enthusiasm and expectation of Korean churches for short-term mission is tremendous today. As a result, the number of short-term missionaries reaches 100,000 per year approximately. There are several reasons though, Korea's economic growth, church growth, and overseas travel liberalization since January 1, 1989 are inferred as a major steppingstones for the explosive growth of short-term mission. The expectation for short-term mission of Korean churches can be categorized into two according to their intention. One is for local church growth and the other is for training of candidates for long-term mission. In any events, short-term mission today not only contributes to the attainment of goal for sharing the gospel in a cross-cultural environment in a short period, but also settles down as an effective program for church growth. However, negative view on short-term mission appears at the same time. Externally critics on short-term mission suddenly stood up since the hostage affair of short-term missionaries sent by Saemmul church in Afganistan on July 19, 2007. This was a big challenge for Korean churches, regardless of evangelical or ecumenical position, to understand the importance of comprehending local culture in mission field. Internally, the need of awareness in terms of self-reflection on short-term mission in the circle of Korean churches occurred. This came from the consciousness of crisis of the depression of Korean church growth, the weakness of long-term missionaries, the misrepresentation of short-term mission, and the official complaint to the essentiality of missionary work. Thus, more systematic and strategic training and theoretical theologizing works are needed today in Korea. Normally short-term mission means overseas missionary work between one and four year period, but nowadays it is accepted as a visiting tour of mission field in a period of a week or so. It also called differently according to the purpose, the motive, and the characteristic of the mission organization, such as short-term ministry, short-term service, mission trip, vision trip, exploratory training, and the like. However, the contents of these programs are almost similar, and thus, the name is often changed according the vision of mission organization and the solidity of the program. In this situation, this article surveys the problems of short-term mission from a missiological perspective and aims to suggest some alternatives. For this purpose, this study first analyzes the contents of publications related to short-term mission, and then discusses missiological issues to propose some alternatives.

When we carry out a work or project, setting a clear goal is crucial for a success of the vocation. A goal means a task, target, or place to go or to achieve, and in this sense, a project whose goal is not clear enough cannot be achieved successfully. Since mission is also a ministry of a religion, making a clear goal is important for its success. However, in Christian mission the goal of mission is understood in various ways. While in the traditional view the understanding of mission’s goal is rather simple and clear, recent view is rather inclusive and complicated. In particular, the ecumenical view of the goal is quite different from that of the traditional view. So this article investigated the goal of mission in ecumenical view with a desire to provide a foundation for making a desirable purpose of mission today when the Christianity is in a deep crisis. For this purpose this article studied some major goals of ecumenical missiology such as humanization, JPIC, unity and reconciliation. As a result of this investigation this paper suggested some major characteristics of ecumenical goal of mission: broad inclusiveness, deep concern on the transformation of the world, high possibility of change, and removing priority. These kinds of characteristics have various strengths and advantages in serving and transforming the world, and in making suitable goals which fit the felt needs of the changing world. In other words, the ecumenical goals are effective in serving the world. However, the ecumenical goals have some limitations as well. The goals of the ecumenical wing are so broad and inclusive that the energy would be divided into many directions. Some goals are agendas of the world which seek welfare of the world, so these goals are helpful for the development of the world but not much for growth of the church, a major goal of mission. If ecumenical goals are compensated in these areas, the goals would be much more effective for the Kingdom of God.

본 연구는 새터민의 한국사회에서의 소외와 적응문제 그리고 새터민 선교가 잘 이루어지지 않는 이유에 대한 문제제기로부터 시작되었다. 그동안 새터민의 국내정착문제는 새터민을 대상으로 한 지원과 그에 따른 그들의 변화만을 탐색해왔기 때문에 쉽지 않았다. 그래서 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 한국 사회일원 모두가 새터민과의 상호관계 속에서 사회공동체 측면으로 접근할 필요성이 대두되었다. 먼저 국내 정착과정에 있는 새터민과의 통합을 위한 기초를 놓기 위해서는 내국인과의 차이점과 유사점을 명쾌하게 확인하는 작업이 필요하였다. 이는 상호간 공감을 불러일으킬 수 있도록 이질성은 동질성의 회복차원에서 이해되어야 하고, 차이는 공존을 발생하는 원인으로서 받아들여야 함을 전제로 한다. 이것은 새터민만을 문제의 대상으로 삼는 것이 아닌 한국 사회 구성원들도 문제 대상의 입장에 있다는 것을 의미한다. 이러한 인식은 사회복지 면에서는 통합적인 사고에서, 선교적인 면에서는 통전적인 사고에서 출발하는 것이다. 이러한 가정 하에서 본 연구는 새터민의 삶의 질과 신앙에 영향을 주는 요인이 무엇인지를 살펴보기 위하여 설문조사를 활용한 양적연구방법을 시행하였는데 개인특성, 환경특성, 개인과 환경의 상호관계 특성에 따라서 비교분석하였다. 각 특성들의 차이 그리고 삶의 질과 신앙의 차이는 t 검증과 일원변량분석(one way-anova), 각 특성들이 삶의 질과 신앙에 미치는 영향은 회귀 분석(Regression Analysis)등의 통계분석을 활용하였다.그리고 선교에서는 복지로서의 사회구원과 신앙으로서의 영혼구원이 같은 개념이 아니며, 양자가 혼합된 요소도 아니며, 별도의 통전적인 새로운 요소임을 알 수 있었다. 즉, 신불신을 막론하고 사회복지적 지원은 공히 이루어져야 하지만 그것이 신앙의 모든 것이 아니기 때문에 선교는 이와는 별도로 이루어져야 한다. 또한 새터민 자신의 문화성이나 긍정성은 기독교의 복음적 신앙을 세울 수 없으며, 오히려 사회적 지지와 종교적 의지가 기독교 신앙을 견고히 하는데 필수 요인임이 확인되었다. 결국 새터민에게 가족과 사회적 구성원의 정신적 지지가 안정적으로 국내 정착하는데 가장 중요하며, 여기에 그들의 기독교 복음의 수용은 삶의 질과 신앙에 모두 긍정적 시너지 효과를 가져왔다. 따라서 통전적 새터민 선교가 효과적으로 되기 위해서는 복지는 복음 안에서 이루어질 때 삶의 만족도가 극대화 되었고 새터민을 사회 일원으로 굳게 세워짐을 알았다. 내국인과 상호관계에 두터운 새터민은 향후 북한선교에도 크게 기여하게 될 것이다.

This paper aims to reveal the importance of media in communication and provide some suggestions for more effective Christian communication (sharing the gospel) through ‘media mission’ in Korea. Korean society has rapidly moved into new media era that involves multimedia and social media. These new media have enormously affected to Korean people's way of communication and life style. How can Korean churches utilize new media for more effective Christian communication? To answer this question, the researcher first describes the definition of media. Second, he discusses various types of media that have been used by Korean churches: printed media, electronic wave media, internet-multimedia, and Social media are discussed. Third, the researcher provides six suggestions for Korean churches to exercise more effective media mission: first, Korean church leaders need to see media mission from the standpoint of Kingdom of God; second, Korean church leaders should be sensitive to new media; third, Korean churches need to provide suitable church facility to people who are more exposure to new media environment; fourth, Korean church leaders have to organize a task force among early adopters for media mission; fifth, Korean church leaders need to vitalize a media mission committee to lead the mission successfully; sixth, Koran churches should provide active support for media mission.

This study explains the World Evangelical Alliance(WEA) mission related to evangelical mission in the mission history. The history of WEA mission opened evangelical churches of ten countries on 1846 year in the England. This WEA mission have started ‘prayer meeting’ for unity of Christianity in the world. This meeting have widely kept ‘prayer period’ with the Catholic and Christianity since 1941 years. Now the WEA have participated in 128 countries and 104 international institutions. Since 2001 years, the WEA is motivating development and revival for the world church and mission. At this time, the WEA focuses on so many themes on professional study as belows: First, the theme focuses on Global Member Care Network. This institution networks peoples of missionary member care in the world. So It bring out from the caring direction for missionaries and ministries for every world church. Second, the WEA deals with the spirituality and mission. The mission influenced by the healthy spirituality. As result of the spirituality requests for the Korean churches and world churches based on biblical spirituality toward missionaries and ministries. Third, the WEA debates about contextualization based on biblical, theological, and missiological perspectives. The biblical contextualization needs processing application in the identification, confrontation, and transformation related to the lifestlye of missionary and process of communication. Fourth, the crisis of evangelical churches in the world has the spirituality decline and stagnation from the secularism and postmodernism. The WEA needs the spiritual restoration in the world churches and mission. Therefore, the WEA mission should be restore the healthy spirituality toward the world churches. The strategy and plan of WEA mission focuses on the biblical perspective and power of holy spirit toward evangelization of the world.

The study deals with the Korea mission of Koreanization which organized alternative way of world mission. The Korean mission focuses on passion and enforcement of Korean church, deep devotion of Korean missionary based on evangelism toward the world mission. Korean mission provide with some challenge points of view to missionary activities of the world mission. The study explain about Korean mission of some advantages : wholistic ministry, supporting system of Korean church, powerful evangelism, creative mission and ministry. First, the study analyzes some types of Korean mission which developed to mission field of Korean missionary. Further the study discusses the evangelistic activities by evangelism, church planting, content development of mission, contextual mission in mission field. Second, the article describes policy and strategy of Korean mission toward alternative way of world mission in the future. Korean mission emphasis on understanding of culture about mission field, policy of self-supporting about mission field, and related to other religions. Third, the study focuses on the contributions and alternative of Korean mission and Korean missionary. Korean mission emphasis on four important reasons : mission of church-centered, mission policy and strategy based on ministry, strong evangelism, and faith mission. Korean mission mind was formed with the challenge spirit to western mission. Based on the above devotion Korean mission promoted for world mission and evangelization. In conclusion the Korean mission should be introduce Koreanization mission for cross-cultural mission and missional regions and nations.