설교와 성만찬 찬송 시를 통해 본 존 웨슬리의 성만찬 이해

Abstract

This article is to both understand John Wesley's Lord's Supper by exploring his two sermons, “The Means of Grace” and “The Duty of Constant Communion,” and his Hymns on the Lord's Supper and to suggest the renewal of Korean church worship. Wesley understands the Lord's Supper as the means of God's grace. In the Lord's Supper, the partakers remember the suffering of Jesus Christ, experience the spiritual presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit, and have the pledge to confirm that they are people of the Heavenly Kingdom. Also, in the Lord's Supper, Christ himself becomes an offering for all of us and we are an offering ourselves to the Lord by being united in Christ. I called this unity as the exchange of life between the partaker and Jesus Christ. John Wesley recovered the power of the Lord's Supper in Christian worship by appealing to the Early Church model and he used the Lord's Supper as the means of his evangelical movement. In this sense, his sacrament is an evangelical sacrament. The partakers in his days humbly came to the Lord's table and met Jesus Christ who became an offering and, at the same time, the priest. This humble offering was the dynamic power which brought about growth in the English church. Today, we the Korean churches need earnestly the spirit of such evangelical conversion, along with sanctificational nurture, and humble offering.