20세기의 부흥운동과 선교

In the 20th century, Christian churches and mission agencies had a great revival and missionary movement. The revival movement made an huge impact on Christian believers to repent of their sins and to commit themselves into the missionary works. The mission mind that was coming out of revivalism must be a power to transform the churches and societies in order to evangelize their family members, friends, relatives, and even those who were in the physical and spiritual needs through all over the world.<BR> From the viewpoint of sociological stands, the 20th century revivalism tends to deny the theory of secularization. Even though the society of the 20th century became more secular than the previous century, the churches and mission minds could not be weaken by the secularization process. However, from the economic and political standpoints, it was negatively evaluated, because it should be closely connected with Western capitalism and American right wing sides. Lastly, from the socio-cultural aspects, it had a crisis of destruction threatened by the popular cultures and multi-cultures.<BR> In conclusion, revivalism and Christian missions have to go together. The missionary works should firstly recover the power and enthusiasm from the Holy Spirit. The missions, however, should not be royal only to a specific culture and nation but to the archy type of Christianity in the biblical first church. The major task of Christian missions should be the recovery of enthusiasm experienced in the biblical first church and the application to the all nations and people.