공간나눔 운동의 선교신학적 의미와 실천방안

Abstract

Korean churches have long been following a reductional trend of faith, or the individualization of faith and salvation. As the result, we are concerned mostly with the growth of individual churches and materialistic blessings, reluctant to share the materials and space with others and social underdogs. While enjoying USD 30,000 per capita income, Korean society now sees the phenomenon of the rich-get-richer and the poor-get-poorer, which paradoxically requires the practice of "noblesse oblige" from the church. Most churches, still in individual church-centered thinking, have little regard to the needs of local society and are reluctant to share with them. Rather, it is governmental institutions and civil organizations that are leading the practice of sharing various spaces. God created heaven and earth and let man dwell in a certain space. There is a boundary in space to differentiate itself from other space, and between boundaries is open space for communication. In Korea, the public concept of land ownership has been introduced to legislate the publicity of land. Korean people traditionally thought highly of community life and with the "we" consciousness organized sharing activites such as doo-re or hyang-ak. The Korean ethos is of allowance and abundant sharing rather than of tightness and strictness, which was their missiological virtu even before they received Christian Gospels. The madang and teotmaru of Korean traditional house are spaces linking the inside and outside of the house, hence allowing its owners to communicate with their neighbors. In cities, public corporations and private companies are providing public space service for the citizens' comfort and relaxation. The ancestors of faith and people of God- Abraham, Lot, Barzillai, Kimham, Shunem woman, Lydia, Nympha and others also have offered the space in their own houses for travelers and church communities. In this point, church communities should not keep their space only for the worship service and other intrinsic purposes but open it to meet the demand of local people as space for communication with local community. Considering the densely populated city space, the value of space is very important in urban societies. Therefore, the individual Christians and church communities should respond more actively and positively to the various demand of local people by opening up their space which are not used during the week. They should study the effective way of space-sharing and practice the act of strategic communication and sharing.