지역사회개발을 위한 교회의 참여와 협력 ―경기도 광주시를 중심으로

장남혁 한국선교신학회 2008 선교신학 Vol.18 No.-

Korean society has experienced a significant change during the last couple of decades. The importance of community life to the well-beings of the inhabitants has increased. A community is an area where inhabitants get together with other peoples. A community development is a process by which the inhabitants improve their leaderships to solve problems which are imminent to the people in the same area. The central government entrusts much of its job related to the social welfare to the local government. And the local government has to draw abundant resources from its community for the well-beings of the inhabitants. Korean churches are required to be involved in the process of community development. During last couple of decades, Korean churches have not been active in contributing to their communities. Nowadays people do not have positive opinions towards the Church. The younger generation especially has an anti-Christian attitude towards the Church. It tends to be very hard to evangelize the non-believers because of such bad reputation. To change this situation, Korean churches have to reconsider their responsibilities concerning their participation in their communities. Seoul Jangsin University is located in Kwang-ju, which is nearby Seoul. In comparison to neighboring cities around Seoul, Kwang-ju city is underdeveloped. That is because the government put many regulations to preserve drinking water for the people of Seoul area. When churches located in Kwang-ju city try to participate in the community development ministry, they have to understand the situations related to the welfare system. If they can cooperate with the local government, their services will be more effective and their influence more broad. CHE mission, a mission agency which has lots of experiences related to community development in an international scale, can help the local churches obtain much information and skill related to community development. The churches can cooperate with CHE Mission. In cooperation with CHE Mission, Seoul Jangsin University held a seminar for community development named “Salt and Light Training.” It is to prepare the leaders of the local churches with the necessary concepts and methods needed for community development. The purpose of the seminar is to facilitate the participation of the local churches in the process of community development in Kwang-ju. When the leaders of the local churches cooperate with the three sectors mentioned above, which are the local government, CHE Mission and Seoul Jangsin University, the resources of the churches can be utilized more effectively and strategically. In Kwang-ju city, local churches have to cooperate with each other. In that way, even small churches can discover what they can contribute to the development of the city. CHE Mission has developed a strategy called “the Seed Project.” It is an implementation project starting from small deeds like cleaning the streets or helping chirldren cross the sidewalks. The Seed Project begins with examining the conditions of the inhabitants in the community. When Christians planning a seed project find the need of the inhabitants, they try to satisfy the need. With God‘s help, they can expect great results from small efforts. In the process of community development, it is important to cooperate with the people of the community. Community development has to be operated in cooperation with the inhabitants. Without their participation, developing the community can not persist. To bring about the long-term effects, the leadership of the inhabitants have to be developed. Community development is one of God’s plan of recovering the world. When the people of God participate in obeyance to God’s command, “love thy neighbors,” they will greatly contribute to the well-beings of their communities. At the same time, their beliefs will be confirmed to be correlated to the realization of their beliefs.

기독교인의 교회 스포츠프로그램 참여 만족도가 교회성장 기여도, 활용도에 미치는 영향

이충영(Lee, Chung-Young),김정모(Kim, Jung-Mo) 한국체육과학회 2013 한국체육과학회지 Vol.22 No.5

The purpose of this study was attempted to identify the difference health behavior, self-efficacy, and loneliness with stage of exercise, sex, partner in older adults. The research problem were as following, First, is there difference of older man and woman’s health behavior, self-efficacy and loneliness as a function of stage of exercise, sex, partner in older adults? Second, is there difference of older man and womaThis study has the purpose to provide the basis data that can be utilized effectively at ministry and missionary site by analyzing the phenomenon which sport is utilized in various programs in church. Thus, it has the goal of analyzing the Christian’s participating satisfaction influence of church sports program on the conduciveness and utilizability on church’s development. The study subjects were sampled at 9 churches in capital area and set the over 20 men and women christians participating in sport programs as population and sampled using systematic cluster sampling. Thus, the subjects for the study was established as 50 people per each total of 450 and excluding the 36 questionnaires that was partly omitted or answered dishonestly we used 414 of the research results. The collected data went through the process of data cording and data cleaning and by using the SPSS 18.0 for Window statistic package program, the participating satisfaction influence of church sports program on the conduciveness and utilizability on church’s development using Multiple regression analysis. The results attained from this study are as follow. First, the participating satisfaction of church sports program did not have significant influence relationship with the sub factors of church development conduciveness which are conduciveness of church development, conduciveness of church school, conduciveness of religious belief and conduciveness of church publicity at the significant level of p<.05. Second, the participating satisfaction of church sports program had a significant influence statistically at the significant level of p<.05 in the facility satisfaction at the program use which is the sub factor of church school utilizability. However, did not have significant influence statistically in the sub factors of church activity use and social welfare use. Concluding the results above, it can be know that church sports program participating satisfaction does not directly influence conduciveness and utilizability on church’s development.

지역사회개발을 위한 교회의 참여와 협력

장남혁(Jang, Nam-hyuck) 한국선교신학회 2008 선교신학 Vol.18 No.-

Korean society has experienced a significant change during the last couple of decades. The importance of community life to the well-beings of the inhabitants has increased. A community is an area where inhabitants get together with other peoples. A community development is a process by which the inhabitants improve their leaderships to solve problems which are imminent to the people in the same area. The central government entrusts much of its job related to the social welfare to the local government. And the local government has to draw abundant resources from its community for the well-beings of the inhabitants. Korean churches are required to be involved in the process of community development. During last couple of decades, Korean churches have not been active in contributing to their communities. Nowadays people do not have positive opinions towards the Church. The younger generation especially has an anti-Christian attitude towards the Church. It tends to be very hard to evangelize the non-believers because of such bad reputation. To change this situation, Korean churches have to reconsider their responsibilities concerning their participation in their communities. Seoul Jangsin University is located in Kwang-ju, which is nearby Seoul. In comparison to neighboring cities around Seoul, Kwang-ju city is underdeveloped. That is because the government put many regulations to preserve drinking water for the people of Seoul area. When churches located in Kwang-ju city try to participate in the community development ministry, they have to understand the situations related to the welfare system. If they can cooperate with the local government, their services will be more effective and their influence more broad. CHE mission, a mission agency which has lots of experiences related to community development in an international scale, can help the local churches obtain much information and skill related to community development. The churches can cooperate with CHE Mission. In cooperation with CHE Mission, Seoul Jangsin University held a seminar for community development named “Salt and Light Training.” It is to prepare the leaders of the local churches with the necessary concepts and methods needed for community development. The purpose of the seminar is to facilitate the participation of the local churches in the process of community development in Kwang-ju. When the leaders of the local churches cooperate with the three sectors mentioned above, which are the local government, CHE Mission and Seoul Jangsin

미래교회와 평신도 리더십

황병준 한국실천신학회 2007 신학과 실천 Vol.0 No.13

본 연구는 미래교회와 평신도 리더십 개발의 관계성을 탐구하는데 그 목적이 있다. 한국 개신교회의 감소원인은 어디에 있는가? 현대교회의 쇠퇴 원인은 어디에 있는가? 한국교회의 현실과 함께, 어떻게 한국교회의 개혁이 제3의 물결 속에 새로운 패러다임을 만들어 갈수 있을까? 미래교회를 위해 교회와 목회자가 가져야 할 관심 분야는 무엇인가? 본 논문은 이러한 질문들을 가지고 세가지 측면에서 그 방향성을 모색해 본다. 첫째, 평신도 신학의 새로운 규명이다. 본 연구는 한국교회 새로운 패러다임의 가능성을 평신도 신학의 재정립으로 시도해 본다. 둘째, 셀(cell)그룹의 역동성을 통한 평신도 운동과 평신도 리더십의 개발의 가능성을 모색한다. 셀 그룹은 신앙공동체 안에서 크리스찬의 정체성을 확인 할 수 있는 좋은 평신도 운동이기 때문이다. 셋째, 크리찬의 리더십 개발이다. 현대교회의 새로운 지표를 제시해 줄 수 있는 목회자 리더십과 평신도 지도력 개발의 가능성을 리더십의 단계를 통하여 제시한다. 평신도 운동의 새로운 방향성은 예수 그리스도의 구원의 영역이 교회만이 아니라, 전 세계를 포함한다는 차원에서 새로운 자리의 이해가 요청되며, 나아가 이일을 위해서 평신도들은 새로운 훈련과 선교 신학적 이해가 필요하다. 미래교회와 평신도 리더십을 위한 방안으로 셀(cell)운동의 역동성은 많은 긍정적인 요인을 가지고 있으며, 목회자들의 셀 그룹의 역동성에 관한 이해는 평신도 리더십 개발과 신앙공동체의 유기체적 효율성을 가져 올 것이다. 또한 교회 안에서 셀(cell)그룹을 통하여 평신도의 리더십 개발은 사회 속에서 크리스찬의 바른 정체성을 회복하고 사회공동체에 영향력을 행사하게 될 것이다. The purpose of the study is to investigate the associations between the future church and laity leadership development. What is the reason that Korean church has been declined? What causes Korean church has dwindled away? How can the Korean church develop a new paradigm for the future church in the reformation process of the third-wave? What would be church and pastor's interests for the future church? This article is to study the possibility of these issues in three ways. First, it is to articulate the theology of the laity. This study is to reconstruct the theology of the laity as a possibility of the new paradigm for the Korean church. Second, it is to study the dynamics of the cell group, considering the laity movement in the church and lay leadership development. The cell group as the movement in the church helps consistently confirm the Christian identity through Bible study, discussion, and social participations. Finally, it is leadership development, particularly laity leadership. The leadership development will present a new direction for the future church in Korea. It can be realized by developmental programs of pastors and lay people and the understandings of leadership theory, the stages of leadership. The direction of the laity movement is to understand that the areas of Christ's salvation should be included not only the church but the whole world. Further, the direction needs training programs for laity and pastors for their leadership and the understandings of mission theology. For the future church and laity leadership, cell movements have a lot of positive factors that include the dynamics of small group and leadership development. And the movements will provide the efficiency in organic faithful community. In addition, the development of the laity leadership in the church will help Christians develop their identities and influence social community wherever they go.

'어 · 메 · 윙~와'에 주목하는 한국교회교육 -유 · 초등부를 중심으로-

김국환 한국기독교교육학회 2008 기독교교육논총 Vol.18 No.-

Churches as spiritual educational community that was created by God shared and taught Gospel to the next generation. The Korean church has tried to spread gospel to the lost people efficiently through Sunday school. Therefore, Korean churches have been grown amazingly just like early Christian churches. Unfortunately, after middle of the 1980s, Korean churches had confronted the decreasing of Christian members. Recently, even the symptom has been worsen to the crisis of the Korean church. Most of all, the crisis of the Korean church had been started from the decreasing members of children department of Sunday school in the church. Growth of early Korean churches was closely related to the growing of children department of Sunday School. However, nowadays Korean churches are having trouble to increase church members because of the decreasing of children department of Sunday school members. From this point of view, this research tried to find out the contemporary situations of the Korean Sunday schools and suggest several solutions to the Sunday school department. This research suggested some necessary changes and solutions for the Korean Sunday school department. First, the Sunday school department should be reformed from teacher focused paradigm to the student-teacher co-participation paradigm. Second, custom educational program should be developed to meet the students' needs. Third, knowledge based educational program should be changed to the more fundamental spiritual based education. To solve the research questions, the researcher used year of 2005 data from the National Statistical Office, year of 2004 data from the Ministry of Cultural and Tourism, and the report data from Presbyterian Convention. With the results of this research, the author provided the practical application for the Korean church growth with suggesting several improvement solutions for the Korean Sunday school department. 하나님께서 세우신 영적기관인 교회는 신앙 교육적 관점에서 보면 상황과 여건을 초월하여 다음세대에 복음을 계승해 온 교육공동체이다. 그동안 한국교회는 이 같은 교육사역을 보다 효율적으로 수행하기 위하여 신앙교육 기관인 교회학교를 세워 복음의 확산을 주도하여 왔다. 그 결과, 한국교회는 초대교회와 같은 경이적 성장을 이룩하게 되었다. 그런데, 1980년 중반이후부터 한국교회 안에 새로운 변화의 조짐이 발생하여 교회성장의 현상이 침체와 감소로 나타나다가 최근에는 그 여세가 위기현상으로 표출되고 있다. 무엇보다 이러한 영적 현상이 유·초등부 교회학교로부터 비롯되고 있음에 그 심각성을 더하게 한다. 한국교회의 성장은 어린이 교회학교가 급격히 성장하던 시기 이후에 지속적인 성장을 이루었으나 교회학교가 침체 및 감소되면서 그 영향이 현재 한국교회의 위기 현상으로 표출되고 있다. 이러한 측면에서 본 논문은 한국교회교육의 상황을 파악하여 그 원인을 분석하고 이에 대한 적용 가능한 해결방안을 모색함에 연구의 목적이 있다. 이 같은 연구가 요청되는 이유는 우선 현 교사중심의 신앙교육 체제를 개선하여 교사와 학생이 함께 참여해야 할 필요성에서 제기 되는 것이고, 또한 학생의 특성을 고려하여 그들이 선호하는 방식이나 방법으로 교회학교의 신앙지도를 전환해 보기 위한 것과, 더불어 현 지식중심의 신앙교육을 보다 본질적으로 영적인 변화를 유도해 보기 위함에서 제안하여 보려는 것이다. 이를 위하여 2005년 통계청 자료, 2004년 문화관광부 자료, 및 장로교(통합) 총회 보고서 등을 참고 하여 한국교회와 교회교육의 실태를 파악해 보고자 한다. 이를 토대로 교회 교육상황에 적합한 개선방안을 모색하여 이를 통하여 지속적인 한국교회의 성장과 효율적인 교회교육의 개선 사항들을 연구해 보고자 한다.

교회의 원형으로서 “작은교회”의 회복: 위기의 한국교회를 위한 대안

YANG PETER HYUNPHYO 개혁신학회 2020 개혁논총 Vol.51 No.-

The Korean Church faces a real crisis. Where does this crisis come from? There may be many causes, but the root is in the model of the large church and, moreover, the processes that are necessary to become a large church. Therefore, this paper insists that a return to the small church as the prototypical church is needed in order to save the Korean Church from its crisis. A small church is defined as “a local church that does not go beyond the pastoral ability of a pastor” and has a numerical size of 100 families. This kind of church is ① typical of the early church as it appears in the Bible, ② is worthy of God’s principle of creation, and ③ is reflected in historical experience wherein most churches are small churches. The benefits of a small church are ① true community, ② true pastoring, ③ making high quality disciples, and ④ the recovery of the future of the Korean church. In order to develop such small churches well this paper suggests ① establishing a proper theology and identity of the pastor of a small church, ② addressing the economic difficulties of the small church, ③ establishing a biblical paradigm of church growth, ④ developing special ministries to resource small churches to sustain its survival, and ⑤ providing a seminary curriculum and education to develop small church specialists. 한국교회가 위기에 직면했다 말한다. 그리고 이러한 위기는 사실이다. 그렇다면 한국교회의 위기는 어디서부터 연유되었을까? 많은 원인이 있겠지만, 필자는 모든 원인이 집약되어 나타난 교회의 대형화와 그 과정에 있다고본다. 때문에, 필자는 위기의 한국교회를 살리기 위해 교회의 원형이라 할 수있는 작은교회로 돌아가야 한다고 주장한다. 필자는 작은교회를“한 목사의목양 범주를 벗어나지 않은 지역교회”라고 정의하며, 수치로는 100가정 정도까지의 교회를 작은교회로 규정한다. 그리고 그러한 작은교회는 ① 성경에나타난 원래의 교회이며, ② 하나님의 창조 원리에 합당하며, 또한 ③ 현실의대부분 교회가 작은교회라는 사실에서 그 합당성을 찾는다. 필자는 작은교회의 유익함을 ① 진정한 공동체, ② 참된 목양, ③ 양질의 제자화, ④ 한국교회의 미래라고 보고 있다. 이러한 작은교회를 잘 육성하기 위하여 필자는 ① 작은교회의 목사 자신이 우선 바른 신학과 자신의 정체성을 확립해야 하며, ② 작은교회의 경제적 어려움을 다양한 방법을 통해 해결해야 하며, ③ 교회성장에 대한 성경적 패러다임을 확립해야 하고, ④ 작은교회로서 생존할 수 있는 작은교회만의 특화된 사역을 개발해야 하며, 마지막으로 ⑤ 이 땅의 대부분인 작은교회 전문 목사들을 배출할 수 있는 신학교 교육이 마련되어야 한다고 주장한다.

효과적인 평신도 훈련과 사역을 위한 제언 : 이퀴핑 교회(Equipping Church)를 중심으로

황병배(Hwang, Byung-bae) 한국기독교학회 선교신학회 2008 선교신학 Vol.19 No.-

This study aims to introduce the concept of equipping church to church leaders in Korea for more effective lay leadership development and lay ministry. The traditional churches, which are hierarchical, institutionalized, and clergy-driven, generally do not have a well-organized sequential process for equipping the laity. As a result, in these traditional churches, lay people remain as bystanders, subordinates, and receivers of ministry, rather than becoming creative partakers in ministry. In contrast, some churches are focusing on lay development through well-organized sequential phases and are deploying equipped lay people in various ministries according to their spiritual gifts. These churches are called “equipping churches.” Based on this understanding, in section II, the author defines the equipping church as a church that focuses on educating lay people for ministry and leadership in order for effective shared ministry to occur. In section III, the author discusses theological basis for the equipping church, which includes ecological ecclesiology, the priesthood of all believers, and holistic ministries according to spiritual gifts. These theological understandings are all based on the biblical teaching of the church as the body of Christ, in which all people of God are interrelated and work together according to their spiritual gifts for the kingdom of God. In section IV, the author presents five essential qualities that shape the equipping church: (1) Equipping pastor, (2) Equipping process, (3) Equipped lay leaders, (4) Shared ministry, and (5) Laos-driven structure. The author names these essential qualities ‘Five Pillars of the Equipping Church.’ In this church, the main role of the pastor is to equip lay people to be mature Christian ministers. Through well-organized equipping processes, equipped lay leaders occur and lead various kinds of ministers according to their spiritual gifts. Therefore, the equipping church has laos-driven structure in which the clergy and the laity build horizontal and circular network relationship, keeping same ontological status. Today many Korean church leaders are struggling with instantly-made lay leaders who have not passed through an appropriate equipping process and entered into the inner-circle of the Church to practice leadership. Leadership-making is a process, not a day event. Through a well-planned sequential process, effective lay ministry partners are produced. Without a well-organized lay-equipping process, the Church cannot have entrepreneurial Christian lay leaders. Therefore, Korean church leaders should focus on developing well-organized and sequential equipping processes for the na?ve/beginning Christians to be effective lay ministry partners. The older mechanistic, linear, and hierarchical structure of the church needs to be replaced by ecological, circular, and horizontal organism, which is biblically faithful. This can be possible through the equipping church which is a model of church renewal.

교회성장의 새로운 방향 설정을 위한 시론 ― 선교적 교회성장의 개념 정립을 위하여

최동규 한국선교신학회 2013 선교신학 Vol.32 No.-

This paper is to lay the theoretical foundation of missional church growth, which should be a new paradigm of church growth, in order to renew the Korean church in which distorted concepts of church growth are widespread. In this paper, I define missional church growth as the growth of missional church, which expands its social influence of the Gospel by becoming the witnessing church culturally appropriate in its local community and the world, in terms of not only inner dynamics through worship, education, and fellowship but also the praxis of evangelism, church planting, incarnational ministry, and public discipleship, ultimately the increase of responsible church members who came to the Christ. Prior to explaining the frame and basic concepts of missional church growth, I conducted two studies: firstly, I inquired into the theological theories of church growth and among them tried to find critical clues connecting to the missional church growth; and secondly, from a cultural view point, attempted to elucidate both the fact that some main concepts of traditional church growth theories were affected by modern values, and the postmodern culture is challenging Christian churches today to prepare a new paradigm of church growth. Basically, the missional church growth aims to accomplish the Lord’s Great Commission(Mt. 28:19­20), which includes both evangelical mandate and cultural mandate. Thus, it is harmoniously toward enhancing both conversion growth and the social influence of the Gospel. It is also related to the endeavor to realize the apostolicity inherent in local churches, the missionary nature of the church. Its accomplishment would be through enhancing inner dynamics based on worship, education, and fellowship, and activating its missionary praxis toward the world. The missionary praxis includes four main works: evangelism, church planting, incarnational ministry, and public discipleship. Therefore, it could be mentioned that the missional church growth is carried out through the balanced perspective and practices in terms of the Gospel and culture. Finally, the missional church growth should be practiced in an orderly process. The nature, ministry, and structure of the church, three aspects in the life of the missional church, must be in regular sequence. Their order must not be changed: its ministry must come out of its nature and its structure must be built to fulfil its ministry effectively. When neglecting this orderly sequence, the church would be program­directed and losing its missionary nature, which consequently produces distorted church growth.

교회의 원형으로서 “작은교회”의 회복 : 위기의 한국교회를 위한 대안

양현표(Yang, Hyunphyo) 개혁신학회 2020 개혁논총 Vol.51 No.-

한국교회가 위기에 직면했다 말한다. 그리고 이러한 위기는 사실이다. 그렇다면 한국교회의 위기는 어디서부터 연유되었을까? 많은 원인이 있겠지만, 필자는 모든 원인이 집약되어 나타난 교회의 대형화와 그 과정에 있다고 본다. 때문에, 필자는 위기의 한국교회를 살리기 위해 교회의 원형이라 할 수 있는 작은교회로 돌아가야 한다고 주장한다. 필자는 작은교회를“한 목사의 목양 범주를 벗어나지 않은 지역교회”라고 정의하며, 수치로는 100가정 정도까지의 교회를 작은교회로 규정한다. 그리고 그러한 작은교회는 ① 성경에 나타난 원래의 교회이며, ② 하나님의 창조 원리에 합당하며, 또한 ③ 현실의 대부분 교회가 작은교회라는 사실에서 그 합당성을 찾는다. 필자는 작은교회의 유익함을 ① 진정한 공동체, ② 참된 목양, ③ 양질의 제자화, ④ 한국교회의 미래라고 보고 있다. 이러한 작은교회를 잘 육성하기 위하여 필자는 ① 작은교회의 목사 자신이 우선 바른 신학과 자신의 정체성을 확립해야 하며, ② 작은교회의 경제적 어려움을 다양한 방법을 통해 해결해야 하며, ③ 교회성장에 대한 성경적 패러다임을 확립해야 하고, ④ 작은교회로서 생존할 수 있는 작은교회만의 특화된 사역을 개발해야 하며, 마지막으로 ⑤ 이 땅의 대부분인 작은교회 전문 목사들을 배출할 수 있는 신학교 교육이 마련되어야 한다고 주장한다. The Korean Church faces a real crisis. Where does this crisis come from? There may be many causes, but the root is in the model of the large church and, moreover, the processes that are necessary to become a large church. Therefore, this paper insists that a return to the small church as the prototypical church is needed in order to save the Korean Church from its crisis. A small church is defined as “a local church that does not go beyond the pastoral ability of a pastor” and has a numerical size of 100 families. This kind of church is ① typical of the early church as it appears in the Bible, ② is worthy of God’s principle of creation, and ③ is reflected in historical experience wherein most churches are small churches. The benefits of a small church are ① true community, ② true pastoring, ③ making high quality disciples, and ④ the recovery of the future of the Korean church. In order to develop such small churches well this paper suggests ① establishing a proper theology and identity of the pastor of a small church, ② addressing the economic difficulties of the small church, ③ establishing a biblical paradigm of church growth, ④ developing special ministries to resource small churches to sustain its survival, and ⑤ providing a seminary curriculum and education to develop small church specialists.

The point of contact between theology and social science -Developing scales for an upright church

( Shin Son ) 아세아연합신학대학교 신학연구소 2015 ACTS 신학저널 Vol.25 No.-

한국교회의 사회적 공신력이 약화되고 있다는 위기위식이 교회내외적으로 팽배해지고 있음은 주지의 사실이다. 이러한 사회적 공신력의 약화는 교회 외적인 인식은 물론, 기독교 내부의 인식에서도 잘 나타나고 있다. 왜 우리는 사회로부터 외면받고 있는가? 왜 우리가 타종교에 비해 월등하게 전도를 열심히 함에도 교인들의 수는 점점 줄어드는 것인가? 도대체 무엇 때문인가? 무엇이 개신교의 교인들의 감소를 야기하고, 교회에 대한 부정적이고 비판적인 인식이 자리잡게 되었는가? 그리고 한국 교회와 사회가 화해할 수 있는 방법은 무엇인가? 본 논문은 이 질문에 대한 답을 기독교 신학(특별히 교회론을 중심으로)과 사회학의 만남이라는 방법을 통하여 살펴보고자 하였다. 교회에 대한 사회학적 관점에서의 의미를 간략하게 살펴본 이후, 본 논문은 "바른 교회"를 측정할 수 있는 과학적 척도의 필요성을 제시하였다. 교회와 교회가 몸담고 있는 지역사회에서 교회의 역할에 대한 논의를 할 때 기독교의 이념과 기독교적 가치의 중요성은 당연히 강조되어야 하지만 그것이 곧 과학적 지식을 부인하는 것으로 이해되어서는 안 될 것이다. 기독교와 한국 교회가 추구하는 가치의 영역과 과학, 특히 사회과학의 영역은 뚜렷하게 분리되어 있다. 그러나 현재의 한국 교회는 여전히 가치를 절대적으로 중요시하고 있으며, 이러한 가치를 실생활에 적용시키는 영역에 관한 과학적 접근마저도 여전히 터부시하는 경향이 종종 있다. 이미 여러 사회학자들이 사회현상을 연구하기 위해 ``교회``에 대해 사회학적인 연구들을 많이 하였으나 이것은 사회학적인 접근이어서 신학적으로 적용하기에는 혼란이 따른다. ``바른 교회``의 조작적 정의를 위해서는 신학을 공부한 사람 가운데 특히 조직신학적이고 역사신학적으로 접근이 가능한 사람이 사회과학적인 방법을 가지고 접근을 할 때 ``바른 교회``에 대한 바른 조작적 정의가 가능할 것으로 보인다. 이제 여기에 대한 신학자들의 응답이 궁금하다. The idea that Korean churches as a whole are losing social credibility is widespread in and outside churches. The weakening social credibility is manifest not only in the awareness of people outside the church, but also in that of people inside Christianity. Why are Korean churches being disregarded by the society? Why does the number of Christians continue to decrease despite the fact that we evangelize much more than other religions do? What then, is the problem? What caused the decrease in the numbers of Protestants and the spreading of a negative and critical perception of the church? And what is the way for the Korean church and the society to reconcile with each other? To find an answer to this question, This paper took a detailed look through a method that is the meeting of sociology and Christian theology(especially centered around ecclesiology). After briefly reviewing the meaning of church from a sociological perspective, this paper suggested to develop a scientific scales for an upright church. When we are discussing the role of the church in the local community that it is a part of, the importance of the philosophy and the values of Christianity should of course be emphasized, but this should not be understood as a denial of scientific knowledge. The current Korean church gives absolute importance on values, and there is often a tendency to place a taboo even on making scientific approaches towards applying these values to real life. Many sociologists have already conducted sociological studies on the ``church`` to understand social phenomena, but it is confusing to make theological applications of these, since they are sociological approaches. The correct operational definition of an ``upright church`` should be reached when a person with a background in theology approaches the issue with the social scientific method.