개척자립교회 설교메시지의 성향과 의의 - 중부권 범교단 개척자립교회 개척 2년차 설교문의 심층분석의 결과와 의의 -

Abstract

The study examines the characteristics of sermon messages of the pastors who have planted churches and succeeded in self-reliance, by means of the analysis of their early year’s sermon texts, and examines the correlation between the sermon message and the self-reliance of planted churches. In other words, the study is a fusion study linking preaching and church growth. The study verifies the effect of the sermon message on the audience. If a specific message is supposed to influence the self-reliance of a particular planted church, it is to mean that message’s influence on the audience. Since preaching is a complex act composed of various elements, all elements of preaching should be reviewed in order to understand the impact of preaching on the audience. But the study inspects whether there is a sermon message effective for planted churches’s self-reliance, that is, suitable for plated church’s audiences. The purpose of the study, however, is not just to estimate the correlation between preaching message and church growth. By analyzing what kind of messages the pastors of planted churches tried to communicate and what their characteristics were, it is also to understand the preaching theology of church planting pastors and to estimate theological ideas formed in the consciousness of the congregations of planted churches. The study provides a research method to meet the above research objectives. The study relies on the interviews with planted self-aided church pastors, on the one hand, and the analyses of their early sermon manuscripts, on the other. Of course, the primary method is to analyze the sermon manuscripts. To this end, seven churches that were recently planted and succeeded in self-reliance in the Cheonan Asan area, an urban area in the central part of South Korea, were selected, and the entire second-year sermon manuscripts of each church’s pastor were collected for in-depth analyses and message classification.