The purpose of this study is to examine the necessity and importance of research on theology and direction of the Korean Assemblies of God in the crisis of the post-modern era. Therefore, this study examines the spirituality and preaching theology of ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the necessity and importance of research on theology and direction of the Korean Assemblies of God in the crisis of the post-modern era. Therefore, this study examines the spirituality and preaching theology of William J. Seymour, the early theologian who can be called the beginning of the American Pentecostal revival movement, and examines its characteristics and seeks alternatives. The Korean Congregation of God experienced an unprecedented revival in the world since the 1960s, but faced a crisis in the post-modern era with COVID-19. The reason for this is that Christianity has become an unethical and unethical religion and has become a subject of social criticism. The image of pastors and churches has been lost due to various disputes, corruption, hereditary problems, ups and downs, growthism, successism, selfish commercial church administration and financial corruption, hereditary and office trade, sexual degradation, unbiblical behavior and ministry. As Christianity's image has been tarnished, various pseudo-religions, alternative religions, and heretical editorials have appeared, further confusing the church. Korean society has been divided into two parts. However, there is a church in the place of this conflict, and rather than being a social integration and alternative, it has become the center of conflict and confrontation. "Preaching is also a crisis. The preacher's own life has become a sermon that can not give influence by using it as a means of ministry to carry out his purpose or will, not a sermon that conveys the will of the Lord, inconsistent with what he preached. And they are suffering from spiritual superiority due to personal-oriented faith, hurting neighbors and society, and suffering from extreme personal, exclusive and supremacy. The image of the Pentecostal movement has been tarnished by degrading the Holy Spirit as a tool to show individual superiority as a means of divine healing or blessing. Therefore, new alternatives were found through Seymour's Pentecostalism, spirituality and preaching theology The thesis is composed as follows: First, this thesis examined the characteristics of Seymour's spirituality, the beginning of the American Pentecostal revival movement. The spirituality consists of three characteristics: sin and salvation, the nature and work of the Holy Spirit, and spirituality of the church. There are five characteristics: justification through faith, complete sanctification, gifts and tongues, atonement and healing, and the imminent return of Christ Third, Seymour proposed the Korean Church of God through the characteristics of spirituality and theology. First, for the restoration of Pentecostal spirituality, alternatives were suggested from the relief faith to the life of true sanctification, from the charismatic to the spirituality of the use of gifts, and from the missionary spirituality through the participation of various ministries of lay people. The next is preaching focusing on Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, preaching using gifts that are easy and applicable to the audience, and preaching as a practice of life in theoretical preaching through application and suggestion of preaching theology. Finally, as a proposal for spiritual recovery for practical confession, it is true conversion and spiritual prayer, active confession of faith in formal sacraments, and active prayer spirituality of social participation in dialect prayer. As a result, the spirituality of Pentecost and the restoration of preaching theology make all the strengths and goals of Pentecost to the ultimate goal of Pentecost, world salvation and world mission, and restore publicness and move beyond individual spirituality to transformation through community and social participation.Therefore, we must achieve the salvation of society by exercising the influence of the gospel of Jesus.