선교를 위한 이주의 성경적 고찰과 적용 = A Biblical Examination of Migration for the Asian Mission and Its Application

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This thesis discusses a biblical examination of migration and the church’s holistic missionary outreach to evangelize the rapidly growing migrant population in Asia. Today, the number of people migrating from one part of Asia to another is increasing every day. There are economic, political, and social reasons for this rapid migration, which has been accelerated by the recent revolutionary scientific civilization. When studying migrants, in particular, the Ger(□) has a very special meaning in the Old Testament. who is a Gentile but has faith in Yahweh to be accepted into Israel. In the New Testament, Ger is translated as proselytes(προσήλυτος), strangers(πάρ οικος), and sojourners(γειώρας), which means that they are Christians with eschatological faith who are looked after under God’s grace and are hoping for the kingdom of God. Therefore, the church should have the following missionary posture towards migrants from God’s redemptive perspective. First, the church should recognize its identity as a migrant temporarily residing on the earth and endeavor to evangelize. Second, the church should welcome migrants with God’s love and undertake holistic outreaches. Finally, the church has to practice the ministry for social integration between migrants and natives. Ultimately, the author proposes to consider the migrants as a subject rather than an object of mission through migrant missions. In doing so, he argues that migrants, as witnesses to the gospel, should be engaged in reverse missions to evangelize the world including the Asia.