People pursue happiness through social welfare. Happiness, however, cannot be
found only with personal well-being and efforts, as exemplified by Eden, a
paradise which God created. By creating Eden, God fostered an environment
where people will not...
People pursue happiness through social welfare. Happiness, however, cannot be
found only with personal well-being and efforts, as exemplified by Eden, a
paradise which God created. By creating Eden, God fostered an environment
where people will not experience any inadequacy. And God created humans in
his own form, giving them the authority to rule and conquer all beings in
Eden. This is recognized as the very first case of social welfare practice.
We discover the importance of social welfare from Eden, a beautiful,
lush place created by GOD, because we encounter God’s vast, impressive and
everlasting love towards the mankind. The details are as follows:
First, the first commandment of the promise that God gave us was to
never eat fruits from the tree of knowledge in any case. God gave us the
commandment to let us know that God is with us humans forever, and let us
experience his full grace, thereby leading us to thanking, praising and
honoring God, which is the final goal of Christian social welfare.
Second, even in such an abundant and lush environment as Eden,
happiness and joy cannot be achieved through personal efforts. God took a
rib from Adam, after watching him live alone for some time, to create Eve
as his companion, his flesh of flesh, so as to form a family community
where people found their needs satisfied. God practiced social welfare in this
way, and walks with the mankind with love and grate that grow larger ever
more.
We use the term “poverty in the midst of plenty.” The modern
society gives us the illusion that there is nothing wanting here, that we can
enjoy anything we want.
Such twofold characteristic of human life puts more importance on
welfare. People cannot enjoy even the equal rights to survive and pursue
happiness under the current socialistic welfare system: in this sense,
empowering the democratic Christian social welfare is given great importance.
God loves the mankind, and finds joy in everyone’s happiness. The
humans, however, broke the promise with God out of their futile desires. This
led to destruction of their home of happiness, subjecting themselves to
everlasting punishments, wandering through the burning pit of conflicts and
wars, through the cycle of deaths and pain, ending in their punishment in
hell.
Despite such betrayal, God pitied us the humans, and sent us Christ,
the “sacrificial love and welfare” reincarnated, so as to open a new road of
blessing, an everlasting, warm and true rest, a way to life as human beings,
for us, leading to achieving full intervention and implementation of well-being
of spirit, soul and body.
This study sheds a new light on christian social welfare, an area
which had been lost from our attention, to explore the relationship between
the current welfare system and Christian missions, for the purpose of
discovering what role the long-term care insurance system for aged must play
in terms of Christian mission, as well as realizing that God gave us Eden,
we lost the opportunity for true “freedom, peace and happiness”, and that
happiness through welfare is a precious gift that only God may provide.
Long-term care insurance system for the aged presents a new way
for Christian mission today. The program has been receiving much attention
from various nations around the world, which South Korea implemented for
the third time in the world, after Germany’s care insurance and Japan’s care
insurance. The South Korean program ensures stable treatment, protection and
living by rating the patients suffering from various senile diseases, and
relieving their families of financial burden and psychological/physical
suffering. This program holds great importance as a service system.
Under the program, however, not everyone suffering from, or
diagnosed with senile diseases benefit equally from the program. Therefore,
this study seeks to point out various issues of the long-term care insurance
system for the aged, and propose a way to provide social services to the
poor, ill and alienated people through the teachings of Jesus described in the
Bible, and propose a way to create disciples of Jesus through active
participation in mission social welfare (Christian social welfare) designed to
complete the sacrificial mission of Jesus to save our souls, and discover
missionary aspects of the long-term care insurance system, thereby presenting
the fundamental idea of the social welfare while completing the Jesus’
commandment for us in this world.
In conclusion, the Christianity and the Christians seek to discover and
establish the effects of the “long-term care insurance system for the aged” on
Christian missions, as well as the relationship between mission and welfare.
Thus, the study aims to contribute to implementing Christian social welfare in
the spirit of commitment, sacrifice and love of Jesus Christ, subsequently
helping to realize true happiness through welfare approached from the
spiritual, psychological, social, evangelistic and missionary perspectives.