로잔운동의 총체적 선교와 선교지 Business As Mission 기업사례 간의 연속성 연구

Abstract

It has been 14 years since the global Business As Mission(BAM) movement, triggered by the Lausanne Movement, took place and established itself in the Korean Churches and their mission fields. The concept of Holistic Missions and BAM, which was gradually developed through the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Lausanne Congresses and the 2004 Pattaya Forum, has been actively accepted by the Korean church and missions starting from the Shanghai Korean Business Forum in 2007. It gave the theoretical foundation for BAM missionary mobilization, education-training, missionary commission, and field support. This paper studies the continuity between the Holistic Mission of the Lausanne Movement and the actual cases of Korean BAM companies in mission fields. In order to identify the continuity, the study identifies the core concept of the Holistic Mission contained in the official documents of the Lausanne Movement, checks the development process of the BAM theory, and examines how the theory triggered by the Lausanne Movement has been practically applied to the Korean BAM ministries in recent years. Three CEOs or stakeholders who have served BAM company in mission fields participated in in-depth interviews, and shared their own cases in each country. The result of the in-depth interview demonstrates that Holistic Mission as a theory and BAM companies' stories as actual cases are consistent, and derives the following four common characteristics of BAM companies: 1) sustainable and for-profit business, 2) pursuit of holistic transformation, 3) living life as a mission through everyday process, and 4) creating tangible/intangible missional impact. The four factors above have been rarely focused in previous BAM case studies. Some indicators, such as business model, corporate growth stage, and sustainability, have been focused on rather than BAM's own background and characteristics derived from the Holistic Mission. In this regard, this researcher expects that the above four characteristics will be applied as a meaningful BAM analysis framework and performance indicator in upcoming BAM case studies. Furthermore, considering that the three BAM companies in this study have backgrounds in the Creative Access Nation, Transition Country, and African country experiencing PTSD due to the civil war, this study is extensible to the issue of North Korean missions and BAM. Given that the number of countries with access restrictions are increasing recently, the BAM case studies are expected to be of great help to future world missions among global mission fields.