본 연구는 한국 나사렛교회의 역사를 거시적으로 고찰하면서 지속 가능한 선교 생태계 조성에 기여할 수 있는 실천 과제를 분석적으로 제시하 는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 먼저 웨슬리안 성결 운동의 배경 속에서 국제 나사렛교회의 태동과 확산이 요약적으로 소개된다. 이어 국제 나사렛 교회 선교 정책과의 연계 속에서 한국 나사렛교회의 설립과 발전이 통시적으 로 조망된다. 더 나아가 한국 나사렛교회의 해외 선교 실상 속에서 개선이 긴요한 핵심 현안이 주제별로 평가된다. 특히 선교사 생애주기에 따라 모집, 양성, 파송, 지원의 사중적 맥락 속에서 순차적으로 검토된다. 끝으로 한국 나사렛교회 정체성과 방향성의 관점 속에서 선교학적 제언의 중요성이 확인된다. 본고의 연구 결과, 선교자원 다각화, 선교훈련원 설립, 미전도종 족 중심, 통전적 멤버 케어 구축이 한국 나사렛교회가 추진해야 할 실천 과제로 도출되며 이를 통해 교단의 선교 활성화 방안도 정립된다.

This study is a critical analysis on the 10 Years (2002-2012) of the denominational activities since the 5 Districts were merged into one national district of the Church of the Nazarene in Korea. The purpose of this study is to search for an advanced way to promote Church of the Nazarene for effective church growth in the coming era in Korea. For this purpose it attempts to evaluate the efforts and results of the unification of the five districts into one in relation to history and church growth of the denomination. Indeed, the merging of the five districts into one was a historical event in the mist of divisions and conflicts of the churches and denominations in Korea. Also the merging event was a distinctive model for innovative cultural adaptation from the perspective of international Church of the Nazarene. This essay discovered some positive results from the unification, that enhanced the identity of the Nazarene Church, administrative consolidation for ordination process, church planting, and unified relations with the international church as well as Korea Nazarene University. However, still the unified church needs an innovative dimension of leadership system for effective church growth. This essay proposes that the pyramid model of the unified church needs to be transformed into an organic or post-hierarchical system. Already, the name of “International Headquarter of the Church of the Nazarene” was changed to “Global Ministry Center” to abolish the existing pyramid model of leadership toward organic model, which is the fundamental Biblical model of leadership for effective church growth. This essay insists that Nazarene Church in Korea also needs to work on having a less hierarchical system of the Church for effective church growth, that is one of the main movements of postmodern evangelical churches,