제3세계 사회봉사적 통전선교

A Social Service Integral Mission for the Third World Centering around Vietnam

The article discusses a social service integral mission for the third world, particularly for Vietnam, which has been characterized with the life-dying context. The article consists of mainly three parts: the third world context and Christian mission, Vietnamese context and its Christian missions, and a social service integral mission for Vietnam. The first part of the article analyzes some characteristics of the third world and criticizes the evangelical and the ecumenical mission theologies which have been formed in the perspective of Western countries. The paper discusses the necessity of a new mission approach and suggests a social service integral mission which can promote both the social development(or social welfare) and church growth for the third world. The second part of the article describes a brief history of Vietnam and its life-dying context. It analyzes the serious aftermaths of rules by foreign colonial and imperial forces(France and U.S.A.). Also the paper discusses how the missionaries and churches in Vietnam supported the rules by the foreign authorities. Since 1975 when the national liberation and unification were achieved, the socialist authority required churches both to eliminate anti-national, pro-foreign elements from themselves and to join in establishing a new socialist country. Some churches against the authority were closed and the leaders were arrested or expelled to foreign countries. The third part deals with a social service integral mission in details for vietnam and its church. Based on changing situation like enforcement of the religious law 2004, the article describes a concrete exercise of the integral mission such as Korea Society for Service in Asia(KSSA) which has promoted to elevate quality of life in the Vietnamese society and to assist church growth in number. The integral mission is a model to overcome limits of the evangelical mission and the ecumenical mission. The social service mission may be done in a form of Christian NGO. In addition the paper discusses how NGO mission can contribute to the Christian mission for the area of creative strategic approach such as Islamic, Hindi, Buddhist and socialist countries, Conclusively the Korean churches are asked to implement a social service integral mission for the third world countries.