台灣教會社區工作模式之探討

The study of community work mode churches in Taiwan

游修靜(Hsiu-Ching Yu)

指導教授 ： 黃肇新

長榮大學/人文社會學院/社會工作學系(所)/碩士(2011年)

https://doi.org/10.6833/CJCU.2011.00055

摘要

基督教會進入台灣早期曾以直接佈道召募信徒及興辦教育醫療社會服務等兩種類型作為與社會互動的模式，近年來社區工作則蔚為教會與社會互動的另一種風潮。
福音的宣揚是所有教會的重要使命，也是教會與社會互動的動機來源。而福音宣揚的核心是「上帝國」的實現，上帝國實現的意涵是否影響教會與社會互動的模式為本研究之出發點。
本研究運用訪談法與內容分析法，一方面將教會參與社區工作以實現上帝國分為兩種類型；認為上帝主權實現是在天上及未來，另一種則相信上帝國會在人間此時實現。研究嘗試從當前教會參與社區的工作過程及內容辨認兩種不同模式之樣貌。
研究發現受訪之基督教會之社區工作內容較過去更多元化，但所謂上帝國如何實現的思想如何影響教會社區行動的差異較難辨認。以宣教為使命的社區工作，使教會在從事社區工作時傾向片面決定服務項目與內容，限制了社區參與的機會。在社區工作人力上，尚未重視運用具專業背景者。
本研究建議基督教會的社區服務的思想與行動方向包括：思辨教會參與社區的神學立場並在會內建立共識，作為教會社區工作之指引；與社區共同商議社區服務的內涵，以充權社區；聘用全職人員以及放寬聘用條件，使教會社區工作更有作為及效果。

關鍵字

基督教會 ； 社區工作 ； 上帝國 ； 教會增長 ； 社會關懷

並列摘要

In its early years of evangelistic work in Taiwan, the Christian churches proclaimed the gospel and engaged in medical and educational work. These ministries were cooperative with each other in both social and gospel aspects. In recent years the model of neighborhood service has flourished as yet another model of ecclesiastical cooperation with the wider society.
Gospel proclamation is at the heart of the mission of the church and is the basic motive for social cooperation. At the heart of gospel proclamation is the actualization of the Kingdom of God among human beings. That actualization in the context of church/society interaction is the starting point for this thesis.
The process used interviews, surveys and analysis. On the one hand, the neighborhood work of local congregations and the actualization of the Kingdom of God were seen as separate entities. In this way, the sovereignty of God was regarded as something heavenly and in the future. An alternative understanding is posited as normative trust in the Kingdom of God as in the midst of humanity in the here and now. Research methods looked at earlier reports of church participation in neighborhood work to discern these two models.
Resources for the work found plentiful reports from past actions of churches in neighborhood social participation. These were highly varied in content and approach. But all were designated as efforts to understand and establish the Kingdom of God in such a way as to influence the church and the neighborhood. Sometimes it was difficult to disentangle separate strains of emphasis. Some churches centered their approaches on gospel proclamation with clear bias towards the spiritual aims and content of their actions. This limited neighborhood participation opportunities. And often the emphasis on a congregation’s own human resources served to reduce the respect given to expert personnel.
This results of this thesis suggest that Christian churches contemplating neighborhood service consider how, with their theological foundations, they can establish common consensus with the neighbors, become guides to what might be possible, discuss the needs of the neighborhood with the residents, empower the neighborhood, enlist expert resources and act systematically towards fruitful results.

並列關鍵字

Christian Church ； Community Work ； Kingdom of God ； Church Growth ； Social Concern

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