무슬림 선교전략: “30일 역라마단 기도운동”

Abstract

1.3 billion Muslims around the world participate in Ramadan fasting for 30 days every year. As the interest about the Middle East has increased recently, understanding of Islamic religion and culture has increased, but research on the Ramadan fasting, the largest religious event of Muslims, is hardly done in Korea. Since 1992, evangelical churches around the world and mission organizations have been carrying out the “30 days of Prayer for the Muslim during Ramadan”as part of a missional intercessory prayer movement for Muslims and the effort to understand the Islamic world during Ramadan fasting. Today, more than 30 million Christians from 30 countries participate in this intercessory prayer movement. However, despite the fact that the “30 days of Prayer for the Muslim during Ramadan”is a worldwide prayer movement, the result of its 26 years history has not been academically studied yet. The fact that there has never been a single paper published in domestic journals shows the need for such research. In this study, the author tried to understand the prayer movements of these two religions, Islam and Christianity by studying not only the Islam Ramadan fasting and the“30 days of Prayer for the Muslim during Ramadan”by Christian community but also the religious events in Ramadan of Islam and the features of Ramadan fasting and prayer. In addition, the author studied“30 days of Prayer for the Muslim during Ramadan” from the perspective of biblical viewpoint, spiritual warfare, and missional strategy. Also, while examining the changes in the Muslim world in the past 26 years, whether the “30 days of Prayer for the Muslim during Ramadan”has caused any spiritual changes in the Islamic world. Lastly it is studied whether this intercessory prayer movement has been effective as one of the mission strategies for Muslims in which Christians understand the Muslim world better and empower the intercession for Muslims. Through this study, Christians need to understand about the Ramadan as well as the movement of the“30 days of Prayer for the Muslim during Ramadan”.