유대교 개종자 운동과 초대교회 선교를 통해 본 다문화선교 연구

Abstract

We live in a Multi-cultural Age. There are almost 2 millions’ multi-cultural people in South Korea, but not everyone feels good about them. Above all, the most important thing is Korean churches did not preach the Gospel to them, which is their mission, and make them become the people of God . If we send a missionary abroad and expect good results, we need to invest a lot of energy, money and sacrifice. But there is an easier way which is to preach the Gospel to the multi-cultural people who are already in our country and make them disciples and then send them back to their countries. So the Multi-cultural Mission is the mission of Korean churches in this era. Then what is the effective way to do the Multi-cultural Mission? I tried to find the way through Jewish Conversion Movement before Jesus came. Jews were ethnocentric people like Korean. But during 100 years before Jesus came, they devoted to the Conversion Movement actively and made great achievements. Shammai school was still conservative and thought that only Jews are God’s chosen people and the gentiles should be judged by God’s judgement. But Hillel school thought that not only Jews, but the gentiles should also know God and receive salvation. They tried hard to preach the Gospel themselves. we can say that they were missionaries who devoted to mission movements before Christianity appeared. Therefore, a lot of gentiles converted to Judaism during that 100 years. In order to gain gentiles, the Jews who belong to the Hillel School did not force gentiles to follow the laws which are hard for them to follow. That’s why they made great achievements and won a lot of followers convert to Judaism. And the idea spread to the period of the Early Church, specially Paul who belonged to Hillel School accepted it positively and devoted to gentile mission. And finally a lot of gentiles were led to church. Above all, circumcision problem which was the biggest problem of the Early Church was solved in the first council of Jerusalem. With the problem solved, more gentiles were led to church. Especially, Paul learnt from Gamaliel who was the grandson of Hillel which meant that the law problems were not problems at all. This made it possible to preach the good news to gentiles more freely and also made great achievements. It is the same today. We should find out the stumbling block which prevents us from preaching the Gospel to the Multi-cultural people. And in order to preach the Gospel to the Multi-cultural people we need to invest more energy. In fact, it is still an issue both in the theological part and faith to accept the Multi-cultural people and preach the Gospel to them in a right way. Even now we should find an effective way to preach the Gospel to them. We should find out the barriers which prevent them from coming to church and get rid of them completely. There are several barriers that we can know through research which are language, leadership, the mandatory of worship and offerings etc. About these problems, we should learn from the Gentile Conversion Movement and the mission of the Early Church and get rid of these barriers completely. We should get rid of all the law parts except Jesus who himself is the Gospel. And above all, the believers of Korean churches should improve their understanding to the Multi-cultural people. Also their passion of preaching should be restored. It is hard to expect the revival of the church in the era when people's preaching passion is gradually decreasing. It is clearly God’s will that South Korea has entered the multi-cultural society at a high speed since 2000. We should not only send missionaries abroad, but also need to preach the Gospel to them who are already in our country and make them disciples, and then send them back to their countries as missionaries. In this era of mission is gradually blocked, the Multi-cultural Mission is apparently a good chance. Korean churches should not miss the good chance.