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• Judas IscariotPeople

  Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ who handed Jesus over to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver. His actions and death are recorded in the Gospels and the Book of Acts.

• PeterPeople

  Peter, originally named Simon, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. A fisherman from Galilee, he became a leader of the early church in Jerusalem, and the New Testament books of 1 Peter and 2 Peter bear his name.

• ChurchDoctrine & Theology

  The church is the community of those who believe in Jesus Christ. The word translates the New Testament Greek term ekklesia (an assembly of those who have been called out), and it refers first to a gathering of people rather than to a building.

• Last JudgmentDoctrine & Theology

  The Last Judgment is the Christian teaching that at the end of history Jesus Christ will return and judge all people, both the living and the dead. It is confessed in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.

• DocetismHeresies & Cults

  Docetism was an early Christian teaching holding that Jesus Christ did not possess a real human body but only appeared to have one. The historic Christian tradition has regarded it as a heresy.

• GolgothaBible

  Golgotha is the place outside the walls of Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was crucified. Its name means "skull." It is also known as Calvary, a name derived from the Latin translation.

• Great CommissionBible

  The Great Commission is the command in which the risen Jesus instructed his disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching them. Its principal text is Matthew 28:18-20.

• MonophysitismDoctrine & Theology

  Monophysitism is the Christological position that in the incarnate Jesus Christ the divine and human natures are united into a single nature. The Council of Chalcedon rejected it in 451 and confessed "two natures, one person" as orthodox teaching.

• Resurrection of the BodyDoctrine & Theology

  The resurrection of the body is the Christian doctrine that on the last day the bodies of the dead will be raised and reunited with their souls. It is one of the articles confessed in the Apostles' Creed.

• Christian SpiritualityDoctrine & Theology

  Christian spirituality is the relationship that Christians have with God through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit, together with the ways that relationship finds expression in prayer, Scripture, worship, and everyday life.

• AdventFeasts & Seasons

  Advent is the season that includes the four Sundays before Christmas. During Advent the church remembers the coming of Jesus Christ and awaits his return, and the church year begins with this season.

• ChristianityDenominations

  Christianity is the religion centered on faith in Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ, that is, the Savior, and it encompasses the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. In Korea, the Korean word for Christianity is also commonly used to refer to Protestantism alone.

• "I Am" SayingsBible

  The "I am" sayings (Greek ego eimi) are the sayings in which Jesus Christ identified himself with the words "I am …." They appear mainly in the Gospel of John and are read in connection with Old Testament passages in which God reveals himself.

• MonothelitismDoctrine & Theology

  Monothelitism was a seventh-century Christological position holding that Jesus Christ, though possessing two natures, divine and human, has only one will. It was rejected by the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681.

• EastertideFeasts & Seasons

  Eastertide is the season of the church year that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ during the roughly fifty days from Easter to Pentecost. It is also called the Easter season.

• Satisfaction TheoryDoctrine & Theology

  The satisfaction theory is a theory of the atonement that explains the death of Christ as rendering the "satisfaction" (reparation) rightly owed for the glory (honor) of God that has been injured by sin. It was systematized by Anselm of Canterbury in the late eleventh century.

• Priesthood of All BelieversDoctrine & Theology

  The priesthood of all believers is the Protestant teaching that every Christian is a priest who approaches God directly through Jesus Christ, without the mediation of another person. It is also called the universal priesthood of believers.

• Foot WashingWorship & Rites

  Foot washing is a rite in which believers' feet are washed in imitation of Jesus Christ, who washed his disciples' feet at the Last Supper. In Korean Protestant churches it is usually observed on the Thursday of Holy Week.

• Discipleship Training MovementHistory

  The discipleship training movement seeks to train laypeople as disciples of Jesus Christ so that they share in the ministry of the church. In South Korea the movement spread from 1978 onward, when Oak Han-hum and SaRang Community Church brought discipleship training, previously the work of parachurch mission organizations, into the local church.

• John 20:22Bible Verses

  John 20:22 records the risen Jesus breathing on His disciples and saying, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." The verse is frequently discussed in pneumatology and ecclesiology, both for its relationship to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 2 and for the authority to forgive sins that follows it.