A Study of the Model of Chinese Diaspora Mission: Reverend Yonggi Cho’s Christian Education of Asia Christian Conference

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to describe the background of the Chinese Diaspora and the influence of Youngsan ministry and faith on the Chinese Diaspora members with respect to their spiritual experiences, changes, and growth. In addition, the research will derive implications and propose new oriented mission models by analyzing and evaluating the ACC of the Chinese Diaspora. The ACC is “a spiritual movement” which has been taken place annually for roughly 30 years under God’s providence and grace. The first conference held in 1986 as the Gospel festival for the Chinese Diaspora attracted approximately 200 pastors and lay people, mostly from Taiwan. For about 30 years, the conference has turned into a spiritual conference. Each year there were roughly 3,000-5000 inter denominational Chinese people attended from all over the world.
This study deals mainly with mission implications of the ACC, its training structure, and the ministry philosophy of Youngsan implied in the centripetal force of the conference. This study suggests a “Whole Structural Mission Model” and a Reversal-Recycling Contextualization Model“ as unique models of the ACC missions which fully harmonize both centrifugal and centripetal missions. From the centripetal perspective, the Conferences have trained the Chinese diaspora with the three spiritual parameters—Five-fold Gospel, Three-fold Blessing, 4th Dimension Spirituality based on Youngsan’s ministry principles such as the Good God, the grace of the redemption on the Cross, and personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. The conferences have instilled in the diaspora members the ministry principle of holistic salvation. From the centrifugal dimension, the conferences have aided them in their personal spiritual growth and maturity and their regaining of identities through such trainings as fasting, prayer, studying the Word, being filled with the Holy Spirit, teamwork, and leadership.
The conferences have also had a profound influence on their interests in missions, church planting and revival, and founding of seminaries. As a result, the Chinese diaspora members have contextualized these according to their own culture. In conclusion, the Asia Christian Leadership Conferences held over the past 30 years are regarded as a theological fruition of Yongsan’s spirituality. They have been a dynamic impact on the Chinese Diaspora. The Chinese Diaspora has produced today’s results through the spiritual training combined with theology and practice.

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