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• Ecumenical MovementHistory

  The ecumenical movement, also called the church unity movement, is an effort by Christian churches divided into many denominations to cooperate and seek unity while acknowledging their differences. Its leading international body is the World Council of Churches (WCC); in South Korea, its leading body is the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK).

• Medical MissionsChristian Life

  Medical missions is a form of Christian mission in which the sick are cared for through medical practice as a means of proclaiming the gospel or living out the Christian faith. In Korea, Protestantism is so closely tied to medical missions that it can be said to have begun with the hospital work of its early missionaries.

• Chung Kyung-okPeople

  Chung Kyung-ok (1903–1945) was a Korean Methodist minister and theologian during the Japanese colonial period. He taught systematic theology at the Methodist Theological Seminary and wrote An Introduction to Christian Theology (1939), which is regarded as the first scholarly introduction to systematic theology in Korea.

• Solidarity for Church ReformInstitutions

  Solidarity for Church Reform (Gaehyeok Yeondae) is a South Korean Protestant Christian civic organization founded in November 2002 to pursue the reform of the Korean church. It is known for its campaign against hereditary church succession and for its counseling work on church disputes.

• Discipleship TrainingChristian Life

  Discipleship training is a form of Christian education in which church members receive systematic instruction over a set period, through small-group Bible study, prayer, and examination of daily life, so that they may live as disciples of Jesus Christ. In Korea it spread widely as a program of lay training through Ok Han-heum and SaRang Community Church.

• Praise GatheringChristian Life

  A praise gathering is a meeting that exalts God primarily through the congregation singing a series of praise songs in succession. In Korea, such gatherings spread widely among young adults under the name "praise and worship."

• Seventieth Birthday Thanksgiving ServiceChristian Life

  A seventieth birthday thanksgiving service is a worship service in which a person who has reached his or her seventieth birthday, together with the family, gives thanks to God for the life lived thus far. Korean Protestant churches have practiced it as a Christian rite that transforms the traditional seventieth birthday feast.

• Yi Sang-jaePeople

  Yi Sang-jae (李商在, 1850–1927) was a reform-minded official of the Korean Empire and an independence activist. His pen name was Wollam (月南). He embraced the Christian faith while in prison, and after his release he led the YMCA, combining the Christian youth movement with the national movement.

• Methodist Theological UniversityInstitutions

  Methodist Theological University (known in Korean by the abbreviation Gamsindae) is a theological university of the Korean Methodist Church in Naengcheon-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul. The school traces its origins to the theological instruction that Henry Appenzeller began at Pai Chai Hakdang in 1887.

• Korean Association of Christian PastorsInstitutions

  The Korean Association of Christian Pastors (Hanmokhyeop, KACP) is an interdenominational council of pastors founded in 1998 by pastors' associations from multiple Korean denominations committed to church renewal. Its stated principles are unity, renewal, and service.

• Alcohol and TobaccoControversies

  The question of whether Christians may drink alcohol or smoke tobacco. Views differ on whether the Bible actually forbids them. In Korean Protestantism, abstinence from alcohol and tobacco has been treated as a mark of the Christian life since the early days of missionary work.

• Jun Taek-buPeople

  Jun Taek-bu (1915–2008) was a Korean YMCA leader and a writer on Christian history. He served as general secretary and later as honorary general secretary of the Seoul YMCA. His works include *A History of the Korean YMCA Movement* and *A History of the Development of the Korean Church*, and he was also active in the movement to promote Hangul, the Korean alphabet.

• Voice of the Martyrs KoreaInstitutions

  Voice of the Martyrs Korea is an interdenominational mission organization that assists Christians persecuted for their faith, especially members of North Korea's underground church, and makes their stories known to churches in South Korea. It shares the lineage of The Voice of the Martyrs, the international organization begun by the Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand.

• Testing (Trial and Temptation)Christian Life

  In Christian usage, testing refers both to a trial that refines faith and to a temptation that leads toward sin. In Korean Protestant churches, the corresponding term is also widely used in the expression *siheom deulda* ("to fall into testing"), which describes a person whose faith has been shaken or whose feelings have been hurt.

• Yi Se-jongPeople

  Yi Se-jong (李世鍾) was a Korean lay Christian who, during the Japanese colonial period in Hwasun, South Jeolla Province, read the Bible, gave away his property, and lived a life of asceticism and voluntary poverty. He was known as "Yi Gong" (李空, "Yi the Empty") and is remembered as the teacher of Yi Hyeon-pil.

• NymphaPeople

  Nympha was an early Christian mentioned only once, in Colossians 4:15, who opened her home in the Laodicea region as a meeting place for the church. Depending on the manuscript, the name can be read as either masculine or feminine.

• The Church and PoliticsControversies

  The question of how the church and individual Christians should engage in politics. Views differ on the meaning of the separation of church and state, the boundary between preaching and political speech, and the proper forms of the church's social engagement.

• Pilgrimage to the Holy LandChristian Life

  A pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a journey made for religious purposes to places where biblical events occurred or to major sites in church history. In Korean Protestant churches, the term chiefly refers to group trips to biblical sites in Israel, Türkiye, Greece, and other countries.

• Pseudo-Christian Groups (Saibi)Heresies & Cults

  Saibi is a Sino-Korean term meaning "something that appears similar but is not genuinely so." In Korean Protestant churches it is used alongside "heresy" (idan) to assess groups that operate under the name of Christianity while departing from its doctrine or engaging in antisocial conduct.

• Christian FuneralChristian Life

  A Christian funeral is the set of rites by which a church, together with the bereaved family, commits a deceased member to God and confesses the hope of the resurrection. In Korean Protestant churches it typically proceeds through deathbed, encoffining, departure, and committal services.