유대관계상실의 시대 교회의 역할은 무엇인가? -무연사회(無緣社會) 문제를 중심으로-

Abstract

This study has been conducted to examine how possibly a church formulates solutions to tackle the growing rarity of community of relation focused on the role of church as one of social institutions, flipping through aspects of disconnected society. It has started to investigate diverse stages of the communal livings which range from the patriarchal age, age of Canaan settlement in the aftermath of Exodus, period of monarchy in the biblical context in a bid to grasp what the bible says about the characteristics of ecclesial community. With finding a communal characteristics being able to battle against periodical trend and flow of a disconnected society from what Israel community had maintained as a covenant and faith community upon the Canaan settlement age among these analysis, it has suggested "Care community of steward" as an alternative community. Based on this "Care community of steward", it has suggested two ways to bolster the role of church to overcome the rarity of community of relation. First, it is a church as a steward of life. That is, the church shall ensure to keep leading "a life as a steward of life" with Him, joining God's duty of saving, maintaining and preserving the life with Christians. Second, it is a church as a steward of material. The materials should help people keep maintaining their lives in the community, being realized as a tool endowed by God to share with neighbors, providing services, and taking care of the poor. That's because God called the church as a steward creating world. Therefore, the church has been levied on responsibility holding the current mission entrusted by God as "Care community of steward", embracing the problems of age. Therefore, when the church strives its effort as a church of steward on life and material, it could lead to well- balanced life everyone could enjoy themselves together in the society of ties, overcoming the social issues today with structure of disconnected society.