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• Missional ChurchHistory

  The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world. It understands mission not as one of the church's many activities but as its very essence. The term gained wide currency through a book published in North America in 1998.

• Emerging ChurchHistory

  The emerging church was a church-renewal movement that arose in the Western evangelical world, particularly in the United States, from the late 1990s through the 2000s. It sought forms of worship, community, and mission suited to postmodern culture, and it spread not as a denomination but as a loose "conversation."

• German Church StruggleHistory

  The German Church Struggle refers to the conflicts experienced by the churches in Germany during the Nazi era (1933–1945). In the narrower sense, it denotes the struggle between the pro-Nazi "German Christian" movement and the opposing Confessing Church over control of German Protestantism and its confession of faith.

• History of the Anglican Church in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. The church began as a diocese under the Church of England, received its first Korean bishop in 1965, and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.

• Presbyterian Church of ChosenHistory

  The Presbyterian Church of Chosen was the first General Assembly organization of Korean Presbyterianism, formed in Pyongyang in September 1912 by seven presbyteries. It was renamed the Presbyterian Church in Korea in 1949, and many Presbyterian denominations today regard it as their common root.

• Korean Church Service CorpsInstitutions

  The Korean Church Service Corps (abbreviated Hangyobong) is an interdenominational Protestant service organization that grew out of the joint cleanup work churches carried out after the 2007 Taean oil spill in South Korea. Its work centers on disaster relief and assistance to neighbors in need.

• Installation of Church OfficersWorship & Rites

  The installation of church officers is a rite in which a church formally sets apart the officers it has elected, such as elders, deacons, and, in Korean churches, kwonsa (exhorters). In Korean Protestant usage, the rite is called an ordination service when it involves the laying on of hands, an inauguration service when duties are entrusted without the laying on of hands, and a pastoral installation service when a pastor is installed in a local church.

• Board of Church Officers (Jejikhoe)Organization & Polity

  The board of church officers (jejikhoe) is a deliberative body in which a congregation's officers, such as pastors, elders, deacons, and kwonsas, meet to discuss and carry out the practical work of church finances and service. It is found chiefly in Korean Presbyterian churches, where it operates under the provisions of the church constitution.

• Non-Self-Supporting ChurchOrganization & Polity

  A non-self-supporting church is a church that cannot cover its pastor's living allowance and operating expenses from its members' offerings alone and therefore receives support from its denomination or from other churches. It is also called a "future self-supporting church."

• Homosexuality and the ChurchControversies

  Homosexuality and the church concerns how churches should respond to homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ church members and clergy. In South Korea, most denominations hold the traditional position that homosexuality is sin, and the issue is closely intertwined with the debate over enacting an anti-discrimination law.

• Communion of Churches in KoreaInstitutions

  The Communion of Churches in Korea (CCIK; Korean abbreviation Hangyoyeon) is a Protestant interdenominational body founded in 2012 amid internal conflict within the Christian Council of Korea (CCK). Its founding members included the Tonghap, Gaehyeok, Daeshin, and Baekseok branches of the Presbyterian Church in Korea.

• National Council of Churches in KoreaInstitutions

  The National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK), successor to the Korean National Christian Council founded in 1924, is a council of churches in which Korean Protestant denominations and the Korean Orthodox Church participate together.

• United Christian Churches of KoreaInstitutions

  The United Christian Churches of Korea (UCCK; Korean abbreviation Hangyochong) is an ecumenical body of Protestant denominations in South Korea, launched in 2017 on the foundation of the Council of Korean Church Denominational Heads. Its members are denominations rather than individual congregations, and they include major Presbyterian, Methodist, and Pentecostal denominations, among others.

• World Council of ChurchesInstitutions

  The World Council of Churches (WCC) is an international fellowship of churches founded in 1948 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is the leading representative of the ecumenical movement, which seeks the unity of the church across denominational lines, and its members include some 350 churches from the Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, and other traditions.

• World Mission Society Church of GodHeresies & Cults

  The World Mission Society Church of God is a religious group that split from an organization founded by Ahn Sahng-hong in Busan in 1964. Its members believe Ahn Sahng-hong to be Christ at His Second Coming and Zahng Gil-jah to be "God the Mother." Major Korean Protestant denominations and ecumenical bodies have designated the group as heretical.

• Korean Immigrant ChurchDenominations

  A Korean immigrant church is a Protestant church in which Koreans living abroad gather to worship in Korean. In addition to serving as a community of faith, such churches have long been focal points of Korean immigrant communities.

• Chinese House ChurchesDenominations

  Chinese house churches are Protestant congregations in China that remain outside the government-registered Three-Self churches (those affiliated with the Three-Self Patriotic Movement) and instead meet separately in private homes and similar settings.

• COVID-19 and the ChurchHistory

  COVID-19 and the Church covers the experience of churches in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020. Its principal topics are cluster outbreaks, government restrictions on in-person worship, the shift to online worship, and legal disputes over religious freedom.

• Abortion and the ChurchControversies

  Abortion and the Church refers to the debate, both within and outside the church, over how abortion (induced termination of pregnancy) should be judged from the standpoint of faith. The central issues are whether priority should be given to the life of the unborn child or to the decision of the pregnant woman, and how the state should address the matter in law.

• Reunification and the ChurchControversies

  Reunification and the Church refers to the debate over how the church should understand and pursue the overcoming of the division between North and South Korea and the proclamation of the gospel in North Korea. One position gives priority to peace and exchange, while the other gives priority to evangelism and religious freedom.