The Reformation in Geneva driven by John Calvin provides us valid insights still today considering the pluralistic character and cultural diversity of the city at the time. He tried to institutionalize through the Consistory the collaborative relationships between Church and State. And he also led the Genevan to accept the immigrants and the poor as member of the civic community through the general hospital. This study argues that his positive theological perspective on culture and the world allowed him those ministries to promote the cultural welfare of Genevan local community. With the maturing of political democracy of Korean society in the late of 90s, the agenda of ‘cultural society’ had been emerged in civil society. Local people wanted to participate autonomically in the round table of community for cultural welfare of their own life. At the period of that change, Korean Churches were not ready to respond properly to the cultural need of Korean society, so they were isolated gradually in civil community. This study argues that the model of Calvin`s urban ministry in Geneva could provide practical guides and theological legitimacy of ‘cultural ministry’ for Korean Churches facing with the crisis in decline in believer and social leadership. ‘Cultural ministry’ does not mean the audio?visual education and functional or technical utilizing of popular culture. As shown in Calvin`s Geneva, it is to lead to cooperate for clergy and laity and the Church and secular authority for the promotion of local community welfare on the positive perspective on culture especially. ‘Cultural ministry’ can contribute to the public role of Korean Churches in civil society, accepting the Christian ethical stance of ‘the public theology’ and missiology of the ‘missional church’ following the example of Calvin` s urban ministry in Geneva.