1974년 스위스 로잔에서 “세계복음화로잔위원회”(The Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization)가 처음 개최된 후, 1989년 2차 총회가 필리핀 마닐라에서 열렸고, 2010년 3차 총회가 남아공 케이프 타운에서 개최되었다. 그리고 로잔운동 50주년이 되는 2024년 대한민국 인천 송도컨벤시아 컨벤션센터에서 9월 22일부터 28일까지 희년대회로 4차 총회가 개최된다. 아직 4차 총회의 공식주제가 확정되지 않은 상태이 지만 총회와 관련된 글과 문서를 통해 정리해보면 논의될 주제들은 다음과 같다. 하나는 청년리더 세대(Younger Leaders Gathering)의 참여와 역할의 확대, 다른 하나는 ‘다중심적’(polycentric) 선교와 리더십 그리고 마지막으로 교회와 선교관계의 재고로써 선교적 교회(missional church)로 정리된다. 4차 총회를 준비하는 한국교회의 과제로는 ‘온전한 복음’(the whole Gospel)과 ‘온 교회’(the whole church)의 회복, ‘행동 을 통한 실천’(Through Action)이라고 할 수 있다.

본 논문은 국내 여성 싱어송라이터 선우정아의 작품 가사에 나타난 자기표현 주제의 특징을 도출하기 위한 목적을 가지고 연구되었다. 싱어송라이터는 본인이 작사, 작곡을 하기 때문에 작품의 주제를 선정하는 데 있어 제약을 받지 않고 본인이 전달하고자 하는 메시지나 음악 가치관 등을 자유롭게 표출할 수 있다는 특징이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 선우정아의 작품에서 싱어송라이터의 특징들이 나타난 자기표현 주제에 해당하는 수록곡을 분류하고 작품 가사 분석을 시도하였 다. 먼저 자기표현 주제에 해당하는 수록곡을 분류하였을 때, 주제에 해당하는 곡은 총 6곡이었다. 선정된 6곡을 분석한 결과 자기표현의 대주제 안에서 두려움, 열등감, 경쟁, 욕망, 본인의 음악 가치관이 소주제로 사용되었다. 이어 가사 분석을 시도한 결과, 가사에서 음절의 수를 규칙적으로 배열하며 운율을 형성하였다. 또한 다양한 소재를 통하여 직설적으로 표현하였으며, 부정적 감정표현들이 가사에 나타나있다. 이를 통하여 자기표현의 주제에 해당되는 곡들은 선우정아 의 외모 콤플렉스에서 비롯된 주제임을 알 수 있으며, 전문 작사가들이 기존 대중가요에 주로 사용하는 주제와 차별성을 보이는 특징이 도출되었다.

본 연구는 코칭과 해결중심 단기상담의 선행연구와 이론적 배경을 바탕으로 두 분야의 철학, 관점, 내용에서의 맥락과 공통점을 고찰하고 코칭과 해결중심 단기상담이 어떻게 코칭 분야에서 실제로 활용될 수 있을지에 대한 탐색적 연구를 실시했다. 따라서 본 연구는 코칭과 해결중심 단기상담의 핵심적인 주제를 탐색하여 핵심 개념을 구축하였다. 또한 코칭의 철학과 방향에 주요한 근거가 되는 개정된 ICF 핵심역량 8가지 주제를 심도 있게 분석하여 코칭과 해결중심 단기 상담의 접점을 찾고 이를 변증법적으로 통합하여 모델을 구축했다. 연구결과 코칭과 해결중심 단기 상담은 ‘자원 발견’, ‘고객 중심의 협력적 관계’, ‘목표 중심’, ‘변화를 달성하기’라는 4가지 핵심 주제로 도출되고 있음을 확 인했다. 또한 코칭과 해결중심 단기상담을 활용한 임상적 증거의 교류와 활용 가능성, 해결중심 단기상담의 철학과 코칭의 체계적 고찰을 활용한 가족 및 다 양한 공동체를 대상으로 한 코칭의 확장, 예방과 교육적 측면에서의 코칭과 해결중심 단기상담의 간 학문적 활용, 연구결과에서 도출된 모델에 근거한 질문의 활용적 측면을 고찰하고 논의를 시도했다는 점에서 그 의의가 있다.

본 연구는 국내 중국어교육에서 활용되고 있는 주제범주와 주제항목을 분석하여 이들의 객관성을 확보하고 중국어교육에 적용할 수 있는 주제의 참조기준을 마련을 위한 연구이다. 이를 위해 『CEFR』, 국제통용 한국어표준교육과정』,『Core Inventory for general English』등 외국어교육요목의 주제를 분석하여 일반 언어에서 필요한 보편적인 주제를 분석하고자 하였다. 『国际大纲(2014)』과 『新HSK大纲(2015)』, 『제2외국어과 교육과정』의 주제를 분석하여 중국어교육요목에서만 특징적으로 제시하고 있는 개별적인 주제를 분석하여 언어 보편적 주제와 개별적 주제들을 도출하고자 하였다. 이를 토대로 국내 중국어회화교재의 주제범주와 항목을 비교분석한 그 결과, 국내 중국어교재의 주제는 1단계에서 4단계까지는 보편적인 주제이고, 5단계에서 6단계까지는 중국과 중국의 특징적인 주제를 반영하였다. 중국과 한국의 교재에서 제시한 공통적인 주제는 주로 일상생활과 연계된 주제를 주로 제시하며 언어 보편 적인 주제는 거의 대부분 제시하였다. 하지만 국내 중국어교재는 주제항목의 다양성, 수준별 연계성이 다소 부족한 반면 『HSK标准教程(2015)』는『国际大纲(2014)』과 『新HSK大纲(2015)』에서 제시한 전반적인 주제항목을 반영하고 있고, 중국과 중국문화와 관련된 개별적인 주제를 충분히 제시하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 이것으로 향후 중국어교육에서 주제범주와 주제항목은 수준별 다양화와 수준별 연계성에 대한 체계적인 분석과 연구가 필요하다고 여겨진다.

예이츠와 히니 모두 죽음 이후 재생을 믿을지라도 그들의 죽음과 재생의 상상력은 서로 다른 양상을 보인다. 예이츠에게서 죽음은 ‘심미적이며 낭만적 차원 으로 건너가는 문지방’인 것이다. 반면 히니는 버질의 『이니드』의 이니스처럼 돌아가신 아버지를 만나러 영적 항해를 기획한다. 그리고 마침내 그의 마지막 작품인 『인간 고리』에서 히니는 ‘고리처럼 이어지는 생명 에너지의 대물림 현상’이라는 죽음에 대한 통찰에 도달한다. 한편 그의 죽음의 시는 전원 애가, 소네트 그리고 페스티쉬등의 다양한 장르로 표현됨도 고찰된다.

With the increased interest in drone racing throughout the past decade, understanding the needs of the consumers will be critical in making key business decisions. This study explores the change in opinions and emotions of the online community to determine the sentiment and key themes surrounding drone racing.

이 논문은 소설 『채식주의자』를 세밀하게 분석하고 여러 전통신화 및 문학 작품들과 비교하여 이 작품에 담겨있는 신화적 사고를 드러낸다. 특히 『채식주의자』의 바탕에 자리 잡고 있는 ‘부조리한 현재를 벗어나 태초의 신화적 시간으로 회귀하기’ 및 ‘죽음을 통해 새로운 존재로 다시 태어나기’라는 두 개의 원형적인 신화 주제에 초점을 맞춘다. 소설의 주인공 영혜는 폭력과 억압이 당연하게 여겨지는 일상을 벗어나, 동물과 인간이 평화롭게 공존할 뿐 아니라 식물과 인간의 생명이 유기적으로 연결되어 있던 신화적 태초를 회복하고자 한다. 영혜가 채식주의자가 되고 나아가 나무가 되고자 하는 처절한 노력은 ‘이전의 존재 양태는 죽고 새로운 존재로 거듭나고자 하는 시도’로 해석될 수 있으며, 이는 인간이 오랜 세월 동안 신화를 통해 천착해왔던 주제이기도 하다. 나무가 되고자 하는 영혜의 갈망은 인간의 생명이 초목에서 유래했고 또한 죽어서 초목이 될 수 있다는 신화적 사고를 계승하고 있다. 주제어

본 논문은 요한복음의 선교적 동인과 선교주제를 하나님의 선교 관점에서 고찰한다. 복음전도를 기록목적으로 명시한 요한복음은 비르카트 하-미님과 성전파괴가 공동체의 삶의 자리에서 선교의 동인이 되어 선교문서로서의 지향점을 갖는다. 1-4장의 하나님의 선교 주제는 예수의 지상 활동을 선교신학의 관점으로 이해하게 한다. 성육신은 창조와 구원의 사건이자 자기 계시이며, 하나님이 인간을 자녀삼기 위한 전인격적 섬김과 증언이 핵심이다. 니고데모와의 대화에서 예수는 구원의 무대인 세상에서 사랑으로 경계를 해체하여 믿는 자마다 구원으로 초대하는 죄와 구원의 보편성을 제시한다. 예수의 선교는 아버지의 선행적 주도권을 인정하고 보내신 이의 뜻에 순종함으로써 선교의 지속성을 담보한다. 삼위일체 하나님의 보내시고 보냄을 받는 교제와 협력은 예수 시대의 제자들과 교회에게 추수의 참여자가 될 것을 촉구한다.

이 연구는 포스트모던 시대 다문화적 상황에서 한국교회가 마땅히 지향해야 할 성규범이나 가치가 무엇인지 찾고, 더 나아가 한국교회 내 목회자의 성윤리 의식 실태를 파악하기 위해 결혼 관련 주제들(독신, 이혼, 재혼, 혼전동거, 혼전순결 등)에 대한 관련 집단의 의견을 면밀하 게 조사하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위해, 성, 독신, 이혼, 재혼, 혼전동거/순결 등 결혼 관련 주제에 대하여 관련 집단(기독교대한성결 교회 소속의 목회자와 평신도)을 대상으로 설문 조사를 실시하였고, 회수율은 78.7%였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS/PC+ 21.0 프로그램을 사용하여 통계 처리했고, 빈도와 백분율, 평균값을 산출하여 분석하였 다. 분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 1) 목회자 성윤리 문제는 목회자의 물질욕, 권력욕 다음으로 매우 심각한 이슈로 나타났다. 2) 목회자의 성 도덕 타락 정도는 매우 심각한 것으로 드러났다. 3) 목회자와 평신도 상당수는 독신 반대 (71.1%), 이혼 반대 (75.1%), 재혼 찬성 (86.7%), 혼전동거 반대 (87.6%), 혼전순결 찬성 (82.7%) 의견을 보였으며, 그 이유를 성경적 근거에서 찾았다.

Chinese economic develops fast and have became the second economic entity all around the world. The development of economic pushes the popularize of mobile clients. Accordingly, whenever and wherever the consumers are, they can acquire and share information about productions directly, e-word-of-mouth (eWOM) becomes one of the important part of online marketing. Customers prefer to trust opinion leaders and real users’ feedback rather than the advertisements which are made by companies. The choice preference of information source accelerate the development of social media. The Word of Mouth Marketing Association, have grown rapidly and have advocated for the burgeoning new industry. (Robert V. et al., 2010) Marketers and sociologists have recognized the importance of the phenomenon of word of mouth, for more than half a century, proposing, for example, that WOM affects the majority of all purchase decisions (Brooks 1957; Dichter 1966).They find that the “friend who recommends a tried and trusted product” rather than the “salesman who tries to get rid of merchandise” (Dichter 1966, p. 165). Marketing scholars has evolved from a transaction orientation to one based on relationships (Vargo and Lusch 2004) Consumers are regarded as active coproducers of value and meaning, whose WOM use of marketing communications can be idiosyncratic, creative, and even resistant (Brown, Kozinets, and Sherry 2003; Kozinets 2001; Muñiz and Schau 2005; Thompson and Sinha 2008) Therefore, when the behavior is on/off, impact measured as probability of purchase can differ substantially from impact measured as attitude change (Robert East 2015). This study will select significant respondents from Chinese social media users as sample. The WOM communication is send information to marketers from the market-based message interaction community ,gathering consumers with same interests. In this study, not only structural equation modeling (SEM) will be used to test research model. But also using the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and SPSS, the first method attempts to find a new configuration to verify the finding and the SPSS can be used to make reliability analysis and validity analysis. WOM of the research model will also be tested by fsQCA and SPSS to obtain the conclusion about what extent do two communication ways influence consumers’ purchase preference. We want to explore different results between opinion leaders and the real users in different communication ways. Based on the results we will give some implication to both marketing scholars and practitioners.

본 연구에서는 새만금 개발구역에서 환경조절 비용이 적게 드는 시설원예단지 적지선정에 앞서 기상환경을 분석하고 평가기준을 정립하였다. 연구대상지는 28,300ha 에 조성계획 중인 새만금 지역을 중심으로 하였다. 12곳의 기상 자료를 평가등급 및 주제도 작성에 활용하였다. 전문가 설문조사를 통해 10개 주제를 선정하였다. 10개 주제는 여름철 20일간 최고온도 평균, 겨울철 20일간 최 저온도 평균, 여름철 90일간 평균온도, 겨울철 90일간 평균온도, 연중 순간 최고풍속과 연중 평균풍속, 겨울철 일간 일사량의 평균, 연중 안개 발생일수, 연중 일간 최고 강수량, 봄철 평균습도 분포 등으로 주제를 선정하였다. 선정된 주제에 대한 평가 등급은 연구대상지 기상환경을 분석하여 10 등급화 하여 구분하였으며, 전문가의견을 반영하여 가중치를 설정하였다.

World evangelization needs to be conducted by both older churches (sending churches) and younger churches (receiving churches) because the distinction between the former and the latter has disappeared. God uses great resources from the younger churches for world evangelization.The church, defined as all Christian churches without regard to denominational distinction, needs to understand the urgency of the evangelistic task. More than two-thirds of mankind have yet to be evangelized and there is a great receptivity to the gospel in many parts of the world. The church should be ashamed that so many souls have been neglected and unreached for Christ.The church needs to understand the significance of evangelism as it relates to different world cultures. Missionaries need to be sensitive to different cultures through which the gospel can be effectively communicated to different people groups. The gospel message needs to be presented in such a way that it can be meaningful to the people.The church needs to develop indigenous leadership to enable native leaders in every country to evangelize their people, plant the indigenous churches according to their needs, and extend God's kingdom. Christian leaders are not born but made through appropriate training and education. The church needs to follow Jesus Christ in terms of making disciples of all nations.The church needs to understand the spiritual conflict involved when the church is active in world evangelization. Churches are engaged in constant spiritual warfare with the principalities and powers of evil seeking to overthrow the Lord's church and frustrate its mission of world evangelization. The church needs to equip itself with the word of God and prayer.The church needs to understand the importance of religious freedom and the seriousness of religious persecution throughout the world. The church needs to pray for world leaders and call upon them to guarantee freedom of thought, conscience, and freedom to practice and propagate religion according to God's will. The church needs to understand the power of the Holy Spirit and to believe the Holy Spirit will help the church to effectively carry out world evangelization. World evangelization calls for conviction of sin, faith in Christ, a new birth, and Christian growth. The church needs to be filled with the Holy Spirit to become the true missionary church.The church needs to believe in the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ to consummate His salvation and His judgement. The church needs to remember that God will perfect His kingdom which anticipates the new heaven and new earth where righteousness will dwell and God will rule forever.The Lausanne Movement for World Evangelization is based on the Great Commission and the Great Commandment. The Lausanne theology of missions is based upon the Lausanne Covenant, the Manila Manifesto, and the Capetown Commitment which were officially adopted as the promise, the declaration, and the devotion of the church to carry out the world evangelization until the return of Jesus Christ.

Revelation was written by the apostle John during the reign of Roman emperor Domitianus(AD 81-96). This book is an epistle to seven churches in Minor Asia. The book of Revelation was written to encourage Christians to have victory over Satan and the evil powers during times of persecution. The Roman Empire required Christians to worship the emperors. Christians were persecuted because they refused to worship the emperor as lord. Revelation is relevant to missions in that Jesus Christ died for all humankind whether Jews or Gentile. All tribe, tongue, people, and nation will gather together to praise the Lord, the Lamb of God. Jesus’ death provided atonement for sinners regardless of race, tongue, people, and nation. Jesus’ death and resurrection provided the way for all people groups to enter the kingdom of God. Whoever believes in Jesus Christ will enter the new earth and the heaven. Revelation highlights martyrdom in the midst of persecution and suffering under the rule of Roman Empire. Christians endured persecution by keeping faith in Jesus Christ and expecting His second coming with the holy angels to judge the evil and destroy Satan’s reign. As Tertullian said, “martyr’s blood is the seed of church,” Revelation encouraged Christians to maintain their eschatological faith and spread the gospel in the midst of persecution by the Roman Empire. Revelation maintains that the slaughtered Lamb of God is worthy to open the scroll and break it’s seals. Jesus Christ is praised and worshipped by angels, living creatures, and elders. Jesus is glorified because He was slain to save the sinners. He is worthy to receive power, wealth, wisdom, honor, glory, and might because His blood provided a ransom for humankind providing propitiation to God. Jesus will be worshipped by all the saints from every tribe, language, people, and nation. Revelation shows that God’s cosmic sovereignty has been challenged by Satan and his demons since Adam and Eve fell. Likewise, the church has been challenged by Satan when carrying out its mission mandate. Satan deceives the body of Christ causing the church to doubt God’s power and justice as well as God’s grace. The church must struggle with Satan in the world; however, God has the final victory over Satan. Revelation reveals that the history of salvation began with Eden but will end with the new earth and the heaven. God’s promise in protevangelium will be fulfilled in the city of New Jerusalem. The seven churches in Asia Minor had a strong hope that they would overcome Satan’s power although they struggled with Satan in the midst of persecution and affliction. The church today needs to endure necessary hardships in the course of carrying out God’s mission. God is always with Christ’s church. The Holy Spirit is working to accomplish God’s will for the church.a

The Philippines is a beautiful country which has diversity in terms of ethnicity, language, faith, and culture. In the past, the Philippines was colonized by Spain, Japan, and America. In particular, Philippine culture is complex largely because of different cultures shared and transmitted by the members of Filipino society. This study attempted to study the main characteristics of some representative cultures of the Philippines and tried to effectively communicate the Gospel to the people on the basis of “points of contact,” revealed during study of the representative cultures. This study presented three culture themes as “points of contact” related to Filipino culture. First, this study discovered that Philippine society had mainly nuclear family units composed of father, mother, and unmarried children. Nuclear family units were usually linked to the larger family which occurred within the traditional bilocal extended family. This study utilized a house church model to evangelize the people who were living in this kind of family system. The house church model was effective on the basis of multiple human relationships of the oikos. Second, this study discovered that there were poor people who were living marginal lives, whether in rural areas or urban areas. They were suffering from severe poverty transmitted from generation to generation largely because of the structural evil caused by the corruption and inability of the Filipino government. Churches would need to support the poor more substantially and systematically in cooperation with the NGO’s and the Filipino government while understanding the culture of poverty. Third, this study discovered that there were plural religions including both traditional and popular religions. The main, traditional religion was animism prevalent throughout the Philippines, whereas popular religions were a mixture of various religions, developed according to indigenous situations of the Philippines. This study presented methods of evangelism which would effectively transform the Filipino world view in order to make them true disciples of Jesus Christ. They would need true conversion through the work of the Holy Spirit. The Philippines is a beautiful country in which Filipinos can experience real righteousness, peace, and joy in God's kingdom as the churches intentionally engage in holistic mission. Holistic mission calls for the house church model, solidarity with the poor, and evangelism, that is, making true disciples of Jesus Christ.

The Apostle Paul was a great theologian and an excellent missionary. His theology is missional and his missions were theological. Paul focused on communicating the Gospel message cross-culturally while planting churches all over the Roman empire in order to extend the kingdom of God. He devoted his total life to this crucial work. The Gospel which Paul communicated to many people groups was that Jesus Christ had died on the cross and rose from the dead according to the prophecies of the Scriptures to redeem the humankind in the world. This redemption is not possible by human work or by keeping the Law, but through believing in Jesus Christ who is the only Saviour and Lord. The primary purpose of Paul's life since he had been called by the Lord was to become an apostle for the Gentiles who were yet to be Christians. He made three cross-cultural mission trips after he had been sent by the Church in Antioch. He made a final mission trip to the city of Rome after he had been arrested at Jerusalem, and preached the Gospel to the people in Rome. Paul's ministry was centered on cross-cultural evangelism and church planting work. He committed himself wholly to boldly proclaim the Gospel and plant healthy churches throughout the world by crossing racial, linguistic, and religious barriers. He employed multiple methods of evangelism at different areas and times. Paul stressed urban evangelism by choosing cities as strategic points to evangelize the people in remote surrounding areas. Further, he carried out his evangelistic work with good team workers like Timothy and Titus. He usually began his ministry at homes so that he could plant house churches which became large churches. Paul's missions were based on the solid practical theology which tried to contextualize the Gospel in different cultures so that the Gospel could be meaningfully communicated to the people whom he was called to serve. He was always guided by the Holy Spirit when he attempted to move to another area to share the Gospel. According to Paul, Church needs to be a missional church which maintains the balance between evangelism and social service. He was a model for a witness-martyr community. He was concerned with not only preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles, but also having a compassion ministry to the Church in Jerusalem. He preached the unchangeable message of the Gospel to people across changeable cultures.

이 연구에서는 장르 분석 및 레지스터 분석을 통해 중학생들의 지구과학 주제 글쓰기의 언어적 특징을 분석하였다. 연구 자료는 7, 9학년 학생들을 대상으로 '지구 온난화'와 '암석의 분류' 주제 글쓰기를 실시하여 얻은 학생들의 글쓰기를 대상으로 하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 학생들은 장르별 글쓰기에 익숙하지 않았으며 특히 논설장르 글쓰기에 많은 어려움을 보였다. 둘째, 내용과 논리관계의 특징으로 정의나 분류와 같이 한 부분을 다른 부분과 관련시키는 관계적 술어보다는 행동 및 하는 것을 의미하는 현상적 술어와 부가적 논리 관계가 많이 나타났다. 셋째, 상호관계적 표현의 특징으로 글 속에서 글의 주체, 글쓴이의 감정, 주관적 의견들이 많이 드러났으며, 학생들은 자신의 생각에 대해서 확신을 가지지 못하고 불확실성을 드러내었다. 넷째, 텍스트 구성의 특징으로 대부분의 학생들이 부가 접속사를 통해 단편적인 정보들을 나열하였으며, 체계적이며 논리적인 글을 쓰는데 익숙하지 않았다. 연구 결과를 바탕으로 과학적 소양의 함양을 목표로 하는 과학 학습에서 과학 글쓰기가 강조되어야 하며 국가 교육과정차원에서 체계적인 계획뿐만 아니라 과학 글쓰기에 대한 교사들의 인식이 향상되어야 함을 논의하였다.

The Acts of the Apostles historically and geographically demonstrates how churches were planted from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth through the Gospel message which the apostles were called to preach. The apostles witnessed Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and Lord who was crucified and resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit in accordance with God's will. This study attempts to point out some missiological themes revealed in Acts and to apply them in mission studies and on the mission fields. First, Acts demonstrates that the Gospel message was preached and the churches were planted in various countries through out Asia and Europe by the power of the Holy Spirit. Both dimensions of "seeing" and "hearing" the Gospel message were rarely illustrated apart from the work of the Holy Spirit. The apostles Peter and Paul, as well as laity like Stephen and Phillip who were filled with the Holy Spirit, courageously preached the Gospel message. As a result, the Gospel message was finally communicated to Rome, the end of the world at that time. Second, Acts seeks universality in terms of Gentile missions. The Gospel message whose essence is the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ is the salvific message which is able to save all humans whether they are Jew or Gentile. The apostle Peter realized the significance of Gentile missions through the vision of meal and the apostle Paul through the Lord's voice on the way to the city of Damascus. The Gospel message was communicated across races, cultures, languages, and lands. Third, Acts confirms that Gentiles did not have to become culturally Jewish to be saved. In other words, they did not need to be circumcised to become a Christian. What they needed to do to be saved was to repent of their sins and to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. Acts solidifies the principle of justification by faith. Further, Acts maintains that people can become Christians in their own culture. Fourth, Acts shows that the apostle Paul preached the Gospel message in the city of Athens. At that time, Athens was an open city and the center of philosophy and religion. Paul contextualized the Gospel message of Jesus Christ in the city. For example, he cited Greek poems when he preached the Gospel message to the Greeks in the meeting of the Areopagus so that the Greeks could easily understand the Gospel message. Consequently, some Greeks became Christians. However, Paul attempted critical contextualization. Fifth, Acts reveals that the Apostle Paul carried out urban missions throughout Asia and Europe. Paul chose central cities in various areas in accordance with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and reached the different people groups in the central cities. The people in the cities would be more open than the people in the rural areas to the Gospel message of Christianity. Acts reveals that urban evangelism was more effective. Sixth, Acts is regarded as a historical book of the church. The early churches planted by some apostles experienced considerable growth numerically, geographically, and spiritually. Church growth demonstrated in Acts is biblically healthy and has balanced growth. The essence of church growth is to make Christlike disciples in every nation and to make them responsible members of the church. The apostle Paul not only planted churches but he also nurtured believers as Christlike disciples. As a result, churches became indigenized in different cultures. Evangelism and missions are God's strong desire. God not only seeks sinners but also finds them. He sent His only begotten Son to the world and let Him die on the cross to save the lost. He saves people who truly repent of their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord. Acts is the book which discusses the process of evangelization and church planting from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth with the power of the Holy Spirit and in accordance of God's salvific plan. Churches today need to continue the work started in the Acts of the Apostles.