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• SmyrnaBible

  Smyrna was a port city on the Aegean coast of western Asia Minor and the home of one of the seven churches to which the risen Christ sent letters in Revelation 2. It corresponds to the modern city of İzmir, Türkiye.

• Christian SymbolsDoctrine & Theology

  Christian symbols are signs that express the content of the Christian faith through images, letters, or objects. Prominent examples include the cross, the fish, the dove, and the Chi-Rho. Denominations differ in how they use them and to what extent.

• Worship MusicDoctrine & Theology

  Worship music is music sung or played in Christian worship to praise God, respond to his Word, and enable the congregation to confess its faith together. It includes hymns, gospel songs, choir anthems, and instrumental music.

• OrganDoctrine & Theology

  The organ is a keyboard instrument that produces sound by sending wind through pipes or across vibrating reeds. It has long served as the principal instrument for accompanying worship in the Western church.

• Bell TowerDoctrine & Theology

  A bell tower is a tower or structure from which church bells are hung. It has been used to announce times of worship and prayer. In Korean churches, it long served as an architectural element symbolizing the church building.

• History of Protestantism in KoreaHistory

  The history of Protestantism in Korea extends from the arrival of American missionaries in 1884–1885 to the present day. It encompasses the arrival of missionaries, revival movements and church organization, persecution and the Shinto shrine worship controversy under Japanese rule, and denominational divisions and growth after liberation.

• ShincheonjiHeresies & Cults

  Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), is a new religious movement founded by Lee Man-hee in 1984 in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Major Korean Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong), and the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church, have declared it heretical.

• Evangelist (Jeondosa)Church Offices

  In Korean Protestant churches, an evangelist (jeondosa) is a minister who serves in a congregation before ordination as a pastor and is responsible for duties such as education, pastoral visitation, and preaching. The position is usually held by theological students or seminary graduates.

• WCC ControversyControversies

  A controversy among Korean Protestant churches over whether to join and cooperate with the World Council of Churches (WCC). It was one of the causes of the 1959 division of the Presbyterian Church in Korea into the Tonghap and Hapdong branches, and it flared up again on a large scale when the WCC held its assembly in Busan in 2013.

• ExcommunicationOrganization & Polity

  Excommunication is the most severe stage of church discipline, in which the church removes an unrepentant member who has sinned from the church community and revokes that person's membership.

• DonatismHistory

  A schismatic church movement that arose in North Africa in the early fourth century. Holding that sacraments administered by clergy who had abandoned the faith during persecution were without effect, it separated from the Catholic Church. Through its controversy with Augustine, it left a lasting mark on ecclesiology and sacramental theology.

• SimonyHistory

  Simony is the buying or selling of spiritual things, such as church offices or sacraments, for money or material goods. The term derives from Simon the sorcerer in the Acts of the Apostles.

• ExcommunicationHistory

  Excommunication is a penalty by which the church cuts off a believer from its fellowship and from participation in the sacraments because of grave sin or false teaching. In Korean Protestant church law, the same penalty is usually called chulgyo.

• Papal StatesHistory

  The Papal States were the territories in central Italy that the pope ruled directly as a temporal sovereign from 756 to 1870. They are regarded as the predecessor of present-day Vatican City, which was established by the Lateran Treaty of 1929.

• EcclesiologyDoctrine & Theology

  Ecclesiology is the branch of systematic theology that addresses what the church is (its nature), how the true church is recognized (its marks), who serves in it and how (its offices), and for what purpose it exists (its mission).

• KwonchalChurch Offices

  A kwonchal is a lay ministry position in Korean churches, especially Presbyterian churches, entrusted with looking after the circumstances of members in a district (small group) and encouraging them in the life of faith.

• Baptized MemberChurch Offices

  A baptized member is a church member who has received baptism (or baptism by immersion) and become a full member of the church. A person baptized in infancy who later becomes a full member through a confirmation examination is called a confirmed member, and the two categories are sometimes referred to together.

• Session (Presbyterian)Organization & Polity

  The session is the lowest church court in Presbyterian polity, governing an individual congregation. Composed of the senior pastor and the active ruling elders, it oversees the spiritual life of church members and makes decisions about the operation of the church.

• DenominationOrganization & Polity

  A denomination is a grouping of Protestant churches that share the same theological tradition and form of church government. Examples include the Presbyterian, Methodist, Holiness, Baptist, Pentecostal, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.

• MegachurchHistory

  A megachurch is a large Protestant church with an average Sunday worship attendance of 2,000 or more. In South Korea, megachurches multiplied rapidly during the period of industrialization and urbanization, chiefly in Seoul.