한국교회 성장을 위한 ‘리더십 이양’에 대한 선교학적 고찰

Abstract

The article is to examine the religious phenomena of the ‘leadership succession’ of korean churches’ in order to understand its purpose and process by using the method of the sociology of knowledge. First of all, the author try to make it clear that ‘a leadership succession.’ It means a commission of the office duties of pastor by the consensus of the local congregation. Then, the author tries to analyze the phenomena of the ‘leadership succession’ of the Christian churches in Korea by using the method of sociology of knowledge. It has such results as follows; first, the ‘leadership succession’ is to a religious practice of the pastoral response for the survival of the local churches on the challenge of crisis in the leadership of korean churches; second, it must be the religious practice of the pastoral manifestation of responsibility on the specific community among difficulties of the pastoral environment; third, it can be the religious practice of the inter-generational networking for the union among the various generations of the local congregation. The author comes to a missiological proposal on the basis of the above analysis on the leadership succession, as it follows: first, the church community should understand its own particular circumstance and elect the successor who will have a responsibility to take care of the church community; second, it is to be reevaluate positively from the perspectives of missiology for the evangelism and church growth; third, it should be recognized and honored as a holy transitional practice of the church community not because of the physical consanguinity but because of the spiritual blood relationship for the local churches. Therefore, the leadership succession should have proper steps of the transitional process without a leadership vacuum on the basis of consensus of congregation.