韓國敎會組織의 質的成長에 關한 硏究

Abstract

The fact is clearly that Korean churchs have made quantitative growth enought to became the target of amazement and envy in the history of world preaching. However, the Korean church is thought to have make qualitative growth as much as its quantitative growth. This study aims at studying how the Korean church with a long history of two-century preaching can be grown into authentic church. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is presented in chapter One, the introduction in this study. The theoretical background of church organization growth is inquired into in chapter Two. For the purpose of the reseach on church organization, if organization is defined in advance, organization in general terms, is defined as a social unit which will seek a particular goal under a given environment and thus, for this purpose, have a given structure. Based on this definition of organization in general terms, the theories by Donald A. McGavran and Peter C. Wagner on the growth of church organization were grofted on general organization. The paradigm of church organization can be traced back to the early church of Jerusalem, but his work of "Bridges of God" published by Donald A. McGavran is set down as the origin of a church growth science. The first step in church growth is referred to as fidelity to God, its second step is referred to as the event done for the lost to do productive work as God finds out the lost and restore them to their original condition, and its third step is referred to as the event for the church to have the world citizen take a faithfully obedient walk to God in the middle that the sound citizens lead their sincere lives in Society, live their godly and distinct lives attributing their pleasure to God, and grow church. Qualitative growth of the church is described as the growth of church at the time when the church make the layman Jesus Christ's disciples, make them mature spiritually and make them serve the church. The elements for layman to became Jesus Christ's disciples are (1) to commit their entire lives to Jesus Christ spiritually, (2) to preach the gospel by word of mouth due to the interal impulse of the Holy Spirit, and to lower their own statuses to the servant to whom Jesus Christ showed its model. As discussed in chapter Three, the plan for the qualitative growth of Korean church organization is that the training of Jesus Christ's disciples is the most fundamental and central task, upon such premises, the church is to make the would-be believers make efforts to resemble the shape of Jesus Christ and mature spiritually under the principle that the training of making the layman Jesus Christ's disciple is referred to as the increase of the disciple through enlarged reproduction. The method for the church to make the layman. Jesus christ's disciples was chiefly studied with emphasis on upbringing, training and preaching in chaper Three. The role of the pastor to guide and take care of the layman is important in order that the layman may became Jesus Christ's disciples. First of all, the pastor should become the man implanting godly love into their minds and Jesus Christ's disciple full of sacrifical love for others on Biblical foundation. The roles of such the pastor are (1) to teach the word of God to the layman well and employ the trained disciples well in educational role, (2) to motivate the layman the fact that the growth of the church can be attained through the preaching of the gospel and make them disseminate the gospel principally by selecting their tasks in the role of preaching and (3) to make the church organization be run orderly and systematically under Biblical principles in the role of management. The consciousness of mission for this pastor to assume sacrificial reaponsibility can be said to make the church-organization make qualitative growth.