'Light of the World' Evangelism through Church Community: Its design with biblical, theological, and contextual foundation

Throughout its ten-year history, the first-generation Korean congregation of One Hope Church in Marlton, New Jersey has tried out quite a few individual and corporate evangelism methods. The congregation struggled to build true church community, however, because of a lack of unity as well as evangelistic strategies that appeared negative in the current Western cultural context.;Through the integration of "community" and "evangelism" motifs from biblical and systematic theology, I developed an innovative and faithful communal evangelism tool with solid biblical and theological foundations. In addition, when exploring suitable delivery strategies for people in this present era, I discovered a method of evangelism that incorporates the common factor of "community" into each component of evangelism and provides a relevant contextual foundation.;This project helped establish the "Light of the World" Evangelism through Church Community (LoW ECC) at One Hope Church, which consisted of the LoW ECC community training---three training sessions and one retreat---for leaders, and the LoW ECC course---nine two-hour weekly sessions and one retreat---for attendants. It evangelized neighbors by inviting them into ecclesial fellowship and showing them various displays of Christianity. The implementation of LoW ECC resulted in the personal growth of attendants' faith and increased the level of communality within the One Hope Church community. It also provided other faith communities with a "Guidance Manual for LoW ECC" for effective application of this faithful practice of Christianity, enabling them to break the negative images of evangelism.