포스트 코로나 시대 새로운 교회 행정모델 제안: ‘행정교회’

Abstract

This study covers, where paradigm shift extensively took place due to Post corona era, church administration which is not particularly studied such as worship service and mission. The ‘All-line’ era demands extra administrative energy to prepare both on and off-line events. Now, when physical energy is limited while energy needed to be utilized is enlarged, multi-perspective reimagination and studies on the field of church administration and new administrative model should be done by ‘evangelical imagination’. Without the examples of churches that have healthy administration systems and administrators, in majority of ordinary churches, few pastors uses surplus energy, besides ministry, to human resources, labor, taxations and maintenance control. Post corona era calls for effective administration system for pastors to concentrate on their priority and the essence of church - worship service and mission. Therefore, the author argued that the model of “church as an organism” - Jesus Christ being the head and each part of the church being the other part of the body - should be restored, which leads the direction to a better ministry in the Post corona era. A church administrative model can be found in the ministry of Apostle Paul. Sending letters to physically distanced churches to correct the unstable system became a model of providing administration-wise unstable church a helping hand. The researcher presented a model of “administrative church” in the theoretical basis of “church as an organism” on the top of biblical evidence of Paul’s letters. Administrative church can be a alternative solution for the complications of smaller churches such as rent and site selection. The researchers formed a consortium to present a church model that organically conducts each ministry in a single building. The administrative church model offers a route to discard the individualism of each churches and to serve the neighborhood. Furthermore, it is anticipated that the administrative church contributes to the expansion of God’s sovereign by churches focusing thoroughly to their ministry and by restoring the true “universal church”.