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Mayflower Compact
[History]The Mayflower Compact was an agreement for self-government signed by forty-one adult male passengers in November 1620, after the Mayflower reached Cape Cod and before they went ashore. It became the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
Jesus Movement
[History]The Jesus Movement was an evangelical youth movement that arose among young hippies on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s and spread across North America and into Europe. Its participants were known as "Jesus People."
Keswick Convention
[History]The Keswick Convention is an annual interdenominational Bible convention that began in 1875 in Keswick, a small town in northwest England. It became the center of the Keswick movement, which spread the "Higher Life" teaching on holiness.
Missional Church
[History]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.
Carthusian Order
[History]The Carthusian Order is an enclosed Catholic religious order founded in 1084 by Bruno of Cologne in the Chartreuse Mountains of the French Alps. It is distinguished by its combination of eremitic life, in which each monk prays alone and in silence in his own cell, with communal worship.
The Navigators
[Institutions]The Navigators is an interdenominational mission organization founded by Dawson Trotman in the United States in 1933. It is known for discipleship training centered on one-to-one mentoring and Scripture memorization. Its ministry in Korea officially began in 1966.
JOY Mission
[Institutions]JOY Mission is an interdenominational university student mission organization in South Korea, begun in 1958 by Korean university students who gathered on their own initiative. It carries out evangelism and discipleship on university campuses.
Open Doors
[Institutions]Open Doors is an interdenominational international mission organization begun in 1955 by Brother Andrew of the Netherlands. It supports churches and believers in regions where Christians face persecution and publishes an annual ranking of Christian persecution, the World Watch List.
News&Joy
[Institutions]News&Joy (Newsnjoy) is an internet newspaper covering Korean Protestantism, launched in August 2000. It presents itself as an "independent press" that monitors church power and is funded mainly by donations from individuals and churches.
Psalm 3
[Bible]Psalm 3 is an eight-verse prayer presented as a psalm David composed when he fled from his son Absalom. Facing many enemies, the psalmist confesses the LORD as his shield and asks for deliverance.
Psalm 4
[Bible]Psalm 4 is an eight-verse prayer psalm whose superscription identifies it as a psalm of David. The psalmist asks God to answer him in distress, rebukes those who pursue vain things, and closes with trust in the LORD that allows him to lie down and sleep in peace.
Psalm 6
[Bible]Psalm 6 is an individual lament traditionally attributed to David. The psalmist, sick and beset by enemies, pleads for God's mercy rather than his wrath and weeps through the night, then closes in confidence that his prayer has been answered.
Psalm 13
[Bible]Psalm 13 is an individual lament bearing the name of David. In anguish, feeling abandoned by God, the psalmist asks again and again, "How long?" By the end, his lament turns into a confession of trust in the LORD's mercy and a vow to sing His praise.
Psalm 32
[Bible]Psalm 32 is an eleven-verse psalm titled "A Psalm of David, Maschil." It describes the anguish of concealing sin and the joy of forgiveness after confession. Church tradition counts it among the seven Penitential Psalms.
Gap Theory
[Doctrine & Theology]The gap theory is an interpretation of Genesis that holds that a long interval of time elapsed between the original creation in Genesis 1:1 and the condition described in Genesis 1:2. It is also called the "ruin-reconstruction theory."
Framework Hypothesis
[Doctrine & Theology]The framework hypothesis is an interpretation that reads the six days of creation in Genesis 1 not as an actual chronological sequence but as a literary structure, or framework, that arranges the content of creation thematically.
Postmodern Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Postmodern theology is an umbrella term for various movements that arose in the late twentieth century in response to postmodernist thought. These movements critique the modern, reason-centered understanding of truth, emphasize the roles of language, community, and tradition, and seek to rethink theology.
Psalm 63
[Bible]Psalm 63 is an eleven-verse prayer psalm whose superscription attributes it to David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. In it the psalmist thirsts for God in a dry land and confesses that God's lovingkindness is better than life.
Psalm 71
[Bible]Psalm 71 is an individual lament without a superscription. The psalmist, who has trusted God from youth, pleads not to be cast off in old age and vows to declare God's righteousness and salvation to generations to come.
Biblical Counseling
[Doctrine & Theology]Biblical counseling is an approach to Christian counseling that addresses human problems by treating Scripture as the sufficient standard for counseling. In a narrower sense, the term refers to the nouthetic (admonitory) counseling movement proposed by Jay Adams.