목양실천을 위한 하나님의 임재 = Pastoral Practice and the Experience of the Presence of God

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The pastoral activities of a paster can be encapsulated into three categories: preaching, administering sacraments, and pastoral care. More specifically they can be summarized as preaching, administering sacraments, Christian education, diakonia, and communio sanctorum. As shown above, in the traditional ministry emphasis has been laid upon preaching and sacraments and thus pastoral care has been relatively ignored.
If a pastor puts stress upon preaching and sacraments and overlooks pastoral care for church members, it will cause serious problems not just for the pastor but also for church members. It will make the Gospel which the pastor proclaim irrelevant not only to church but also to society in general. The Incarnation of Christ in the Bible has a close bearing with our daily life. In other words. it has to do with human persons' cure and recovery. Accordingly, the pastor who is in charge of church ministry should execute an incarnational proclamation of th Gospel, and regard the Incarnation of Christ as the criterion of his or her pastoral care.
The pastoral activities are an action-oriented professional job implemented through theological studies, professing faith, and the experience of God's presence. Thus pastorate cannot be practiced solely through academic activities: Rather emphasis should be placed upon spiritual formation
A pastor's church ministry cannot be fully exercised through religious symbols such as preaching and sacraments. As a human being the pastor can do ministry efficiently through showing up his or her personality, witnessing his or her calling, and revealing his or her pious practical life. Moreover this is possible only through the presence of God which the pastor experiences daily. In turn the experience of the presence of God will be possible for those who are eager for self-discipline.
The church which is not in struggle for self-renewal and thus not answerable to church members as well as society in general will be combed out. Its cardinal objective should be the rediscovery of humanity for those who are defaced through disease, divorce, and so forth.