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From the long history of Christianity we rnay identify some currents that have flowed strongly in the past and which rnay enable us to discern some of the directions for rrusslon in a new century. Christianity seemed to most people to be a Western religion, indeed the religion of the West; but now Christianity is entering a new phase of its existence， as a mainly non-western religion. Put differendy, the worldwide resurgence of Christianity coincides with the waning of the religion in what is now a postChristian West. Thus, we could see that Christian advance in the wor1d is not progressive, but serial. Given the changing face of the Christian faith and the globalization of Christianity， the writer following Lesslie Newbigin (1989) and Pllip Jenkins (2002) asserts that the chruches that have grown most rapidly in the global South such as Mrica, Asia, and Latin America are far more traditional, morally conservative, evangelical, and apocalyptic than their northern counterparts. Western liberal scholars have recently dedared that Christianity is declining, or that it must modernize its beliefs or risk being abandoned altogether. However the writer contends that just the opposite is true. Regarding the issue of national evangelization and world mission as the most essential tasks of the Korean Church at the moment, after evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the Church, the writer has provided some suggestions. Finally, as a condusion, given the faα that at different periods, different areas of the world have taken leadership in the Christian mission, the writer emphasizes the necessity of self-reform of the Korean Church which has the largest church in the world Paul Y onggi Cho’s Full Goes Church.
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World Christianity, Korean Church, Christian Advance, Post-Christian West, World Mission, National Evangelization
