국제로잔의 총체적 선교 개념과 차별금지법에 관한 침묵에 대한 한국교회의 복음적 대응*

Abstract

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has been influenced by a liberal theology that embraces the higher criticism, assuming Biblical errors, and has distorted mission by presenting it as fulfilling social responsibility rather than saving souls. The Lausanne Movement began as an evangelical organization that affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible and resisted the unbiblical transformation of WCC's mission, aiming to restore the Biblical mission of saving souls through evangelism. However, as Lausanne's mission statement included social responsibility alongside saving souls through evangelism, the emphasis on social responsibility increased with each successive conference, resulting in a serious shift toward the WCC's mission concept. The root cause of this shift is a gap in Lausanne's Biblical statement. Instead of the traditional affirmation that “All the Bible is inerrant as the Word of God,” Lausanne adopted the statement, “all that the Bible affirms is infallibe,” which provided an opening for liberal theologians to join the ranks of evangelicals, interpreting Scripture through subjective human judgment. It is a substantial deviation in Lausanne's mission concept to blend mission with ethical practice, giving precedence and significance to social responsibility over soul-winning. Therefore, the Korean church should assertively call for Lausanne to abandon its ambiguous statement and replace it with a steadfast traditional statement affirming that all Scripture is the Word of God, and reinstate the priority of soul-winning through evangelism as the core of mission, not social responsibility. Meanwhile, Anti-discrimination Laws have a frightening totalitarian tyranny that prohibits even the expression of Biblical views on homosexuality, transgender behavior, etc. as discrimination. Lausanne has never addressed the harsh oppression and harm that Anti-discrimination Laws and the sexual revolution have inflicted on the evangelical church, except to say that homosexuality is unbiblical and that Biblical care and evangelism for homosexuals is necessary. The Korean evangelical church, which firmly upholds the divine authority of the Bible, has been united and successful in fighting the anti-discrimination law for the past 17 years. In contrast, churches in other developed countries have failed to defeat anti-discrimination legislation because churches that follow a liberal theology that criticizes the Bible have become the majority and have supported anti-discrimination legislation. The Korean Church should actively demand that Lausanne, an evangelical organization, express its opposition to anti-homosexuality and Anti-discrimination Laws that suppress the religious freedom of evangelical Christians who oppose homosexuality and join the international movement against Anti-discrimination Laws.