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Revival Meeting
A revival meeting is a special series of gatherings held over several consecutive days to rekindle faith that has grown stagnant. It is also called a spiritual revival meeting. In Korea, revival meetings developed as an offshoot of Bible study gatherings known as Bible conferences (sagyeonghoe).
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- Special Dawn Prayer MeetingFeasts & Seasons
A special dawn prayer meeting (teuksae) is a dawn prayer gathering that a church holds for a set period and around a chosen theme, with greater intensity than its regular dawn prayer meetings. The practice grew out of the dawn prayer tradition of Korean Protestantism.
- Azusa Street RevivalHistory
The Azusa Street Revival was a series of revival meetings led by the Black preacher William J. Seymour at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles, California, beginning in 1906. It is widely regarded as the landmark event marking the beginning of the modern Pentecostal movement.
- Kim Ik-duPeople
Kim Ik-du (1874–1950) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and revivalist of the Japanese colonial period. He became widely known for revival meetings that emphasized divine healing, and during the Korean War he was shot and killed by soldiers of the Korean People's Army at Sinchon, in what is now North Korea.
- Yi Yong-doPeople
Yi Yong-do (1901–1933) was a Methodist minister and revivalist active in Korea during the Japanese colonial period and is officially recognized for his contributions to Korean independence. In the early 1930s he led revival meetings throughout the country, but critics accused him of mysticism, and he became embroiled in a heresy controversy at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
- Charles FinneyPeople
Charles Finney (1792–1875) was an American Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister and revivalist. He is regarded as a leading figure of the Second Great Awakening, and he introduced and popularized the "New Measures" in revival meetings. He also served as president of Oberlin College.
- Oral RobertsPeople
Oral Roberts (1918–2009) was an American Pentecostal and charismatic healing evangelist. He became widely known through his tent meetings and television broadcasts, and he founded Oral Roberts University. In Korean Protestantism he is regarded as a major influence on David Yonggi Cho.
- Millerite MovementHistory
The Millerite movement was an interdenominational end-times movement in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. It arose after the Baptist lay preacher William Miller predicted that Christ would return around 1843–1844.
- Great DisappointmentHistory
The Great Disappointment was the collective disappointment experienced by members of the Millerite movement in the United States, who believed that Jesus Christ would return on October 22, 1844, when that day passed without the Second Coming.
- Billy GrahamPeople
Billy Graham (1918–2018) was an American Southern Baptist minister and mass evangelist. He is regarded as a leading representative of twentieth-century evangelicalism. His 1973 crusade on Yeouido in Seoul also had a significant impact on Korean Protestantism.
- Kim Jae-junPeople
Kim Jae-jun (金在俊, 1901–1987) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and progressive theologian whose pen name was Changgong (長空). He played a central role in founding Chosun Theological Seminary (now Hanshin University) and in forming the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea, and he also took part in the democratization movement.
- Choi Ja-shilPeople
Choi Ja-shil (1915–1989) was a Korean Pentecostal woman minister. In 1958, together with David Yonggi Cho, who later became her son-in-law, she founded the Daejo-dong tent church, which became today's Yoido Full Gospel Church.
- Wonsan RevivalHistory
The Wonsan Revival was a spiritual awakening that began in August 1903 at a united missionary prayer meeting in Wonsan, Korea, when the Southern Methodist missionary Robert Hardie publicly repented. It is widely regarded as the starting point of the 1907 Pyongyang Great Revival.
- Hebrides RevivalHistory
The Hebrides Revival was a religious revival that took place from 1949 to about 1952 on the islands of Lewis and Harris in the Hebrides, off the northwest coast of Scotland. It is said to have begun in prayer meetings, and it became widely known through the meetings of the evangelist Duncan Campbell.
- Toronto BlessingHistory
The Toronto Blessing was a charismatic revival phenomenon that began in January 1994 at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church in Toronto, Canada. Physical manifestations at its meetings, such as laughter, trembling, and falling down, drew both worldwide attention and controversy.
- Kil Sun-jooPeople
Kil Sun-joo (吉善宙, 1869–1935) was one of the first seven Korean Presbyterian ministers. He pastored Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang, began the dawn prayer meeting, and led the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907. He was also one of the 33 national representatives of the March First Movement.
- CheonbugyoHeresies & Cults
Cheonbugyo is a religious organization founded in 1955 by Park Tae-seon, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church in Korea. Formerly called the Korean Jesus Church Evangelical Hall Revival Association, it was widely known as Jeondogwan ("Evangelical Hall"). In 1956 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea declared it heretical.
- Tongsung KidoChristian Life
Tongsung kido is a form of prayer in which everyone gathered prays aloud at the same time, each in his or her own words. Since the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907, it has become one of the characteristic prayer practices of Korean Protestantism.
- Jennie Evans MoorePeople
Jennie Evans Moore (1874 or 1883–1936) was an African American Pentecostal leader. She was among the first to speak in tongues in the early days of the Azusa Street Revival, married William J. Seymour in 1908, and led the Azusa Street Mission after her husband's death.
- Welsh RevivalHistory
The Welsh Revival was a Protestant revival movement that swept across Wales, in the United Kingdom, from 1904 to 1905. Its best-known figure was Evan Roberts, a former coal miner and lay preacher, and some 100,000 conversions were reported at the time.