교단 분열 이전의 한국성결교회전도활동에 관한 연구 –1945년~1961년

Abstract

This paper is about the evangelistic activities of the KoreaHoliness Church before the denominational Split. The KoreanHoliness Church has self-esteem called the communion builtthrough evangelism, but there was not study of evangelisticactivities that become identity of the communion mindsystematically. “Research on the Evangelistic Activities of theearly Korea Holiness Church before the liberation” which isthe writer's doctoral dissertation is unique. Hereupon, this paperwould like to lay the foundation stone for the advancementof the evangelism of the Korea Holiness Church by studyingof the evangelistic activities of the Korea Holiness Church beforethe denominational Split followed the research on theEvangelistic Activities of the early Korea Holiness Church. That'swhy there are no scientific study and development withoutbasic research is preceded. The first characteristic of the evangelistic activities on thistime is that direct evangelism is invigorated after the evangelistic activities of the early Korea Holiness Church. The communionorganized each missionary team actively, also the directevangelistic activities are progressing thorough each institutionof the communion. Especially, the direct evangelistic activitieswere practiced enough to compare in the evangelism of theearly Kore Holiness Church by work of the Reverend Lee sungbong who is a prominent evangelist. Also, ‘the year ofjubilee-missionary team’ was organized and worked on positivelines for the year of jubilee of the communionSecond, indirect evangelism was begun to activate facingin domestic difficult realistic circumstance after liberation. Because the security of funds was preceded by the fund whichElmer Kilborun has raised, and also J.B. Crouse was engagedas a member in World Relief Committee. As a result, the indirectevangelistic activities of the Korea Holiness Church wereactivated better becoming the domestic supply passageway ofhuge alms and supplies. The Korea Holiness Church is jumpedin relief work that reconstruct the country in earnest whiledeveloping educational work and social work slowly. Third, the activation of indirect evangelistic activities onthis time caused the result that weaken the spirit of directevangelism. This result is the cause of the Denominational Split. If this problem was handled wisely, the Korea Holiness Churchcould practice a balanced evangelistic activities in a holisticperspective, and could produce improved evangelistic activitiesand better results. How enormous the effect that evangelistic activities have influenced the communion in the Korea Holiness Church isconfirmed again through the research of this paper. At least,evangelistic activities have helped the growth of the KoreaHoliness Church until the Denominational Split, and even hadgreat influence on the Denominational Split. Hereupon, I expectthat more expansive study about evangelistic activities whichis based on advanced researches such as this paper is continued.