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A Research on Play Pastoral Counseling for Missionary Work on Multi-Cultural Families

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2018, 26(2), pp.87-117
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2018.26.2.87
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 28, 2018
  • Accepted : October 31, 2018
  • Published : November 30, 2018

Pakr Eun Jung 1

1웨스트민스터신학대학원대학교

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ABSTRACT

The article suggests Play Pastoral Counseling as a method for pastoral counseling with regard to the missionary work of domestic multi-cultural families, and deals with the gist of Play Pastoral Counseling. While Korean Churches concentrated their effort on propagating gospel effectively through sending missionaries overseas, nowadays multi-cultural families are on the horizon as the object of missionary efforts. The author has been in charge of multi-cultural service in the span of 15 years for foreign workers in a church. Based on this experience, I propose ‘Play Pastoral Counseling’ as the effective tool for evangelizing multi-cultural families. Because play has the power to make people relax and be moved, we feel catharsis when we play. Johann Huzinga emphasizes that the role of play is the corridor connecting the principal elements of culture like human religiosity, poetry, art, etc. When God created this world there were order and joy of creation. People who have diverse cultures and languages, by participating in play service for God, would be made whole and be restored as God created them in the beginning to participate in the order and joys of creation. The article researches general and theological understandings for multi-cultural families firstly. Secondly, it individually reviews play generally, psychologically and theologically. Thirdly, it discusses Play Pastoral Counseling as the effective tool of worship for evangelizing multi-cultural families.

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