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• Pacifism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Pacifism is the position that rejects war and violence and pursues peace through nonviolence. Within Christianity, the Anabaptist and Quaker traditions are its most prominent representatives, and it stands in contrast to just war theory.

• Preexistence of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The preexistence of Christ is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ existed with the Father before his human birth and before creation.

• Christian Symbols

  [Doctrine & 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.

• Senior Pastor

  [Church Offices]

  A senior pastor is the minister who holds responsibility for a local church and oversees its preaching, sacraments, pastoral care, and administration. The procedures for appointment and the status of the office vary according to each denomination's form of church government.

• Baptism by Immersion

  [Worship & Rites]

  Baptism by immersion is a mode of baptism in which the person's whole body is submerged in water and then raised up again. In Korea, certain denominations, including Baptist churches and churches of the Full Gospel (Pentecostal) tradition, follow this practice.

• Ten Commandments

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Ten Commandments are the ten commands recorded in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 of the Old Testament, which God is said to have given to Israel at Mount Sinai. In Korean Protestant churches they are used, together with the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer, as core content for basic instruction in the faith.

• Mission

  [Christian Life]

  Mission is the work of proclaiming the gospel to people and regions that have not yet heard it and of establishing churches there. In Korean Protestant churches, the term chiefly refers to cross-cultural ministry carried out abroad, that is, overseas missions.

• Resurrection

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Resurrection refers both to the event in which Jesus Christ, having died on the cross, rose again, and to the Christian belief that on the last day the dead will be raised bodily.

• Mary

  [People]

  Mary is the woman presented in the New Testament as the mother of Jesus Christ. Protestants and Catholics both confess the virgin birth, but they differ in their understanding of Mary's status and of the veneration due to her.

• 1 John

  [Bible]

  First John is one of the General Epistles of the New Testament and consists of five chapters. With its declarations that "God is light" and "God is love," it sets out criteria for discerning genuine faith.

• Commissioner (Church Delegate)

  [Organization & Polity]

  A commissioner is a delegate sent by a lower church assembly, such as a session, presbytery, or district conference, to represent it at a higher assembly, such as a presbytery or general assembly. The term is used mainly in Presbyterian churches; other denominations use terms such as "delegate" or "representative."

• Trinity Sunday

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, is a feast of the Western church year commemorating the doctrine of the Trinity, which confesses one God in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• Road to Emmaus

  [Bible]

  The Road to Emmaus is the event in which Jesus, on the day of his resurrection, appeared to two disciples traveling to Emmaus, expounded the Scriptures to them, and was recognized when he broke bread with them. It is recorded in Luke 24.

• The Good Shepherd

  [Bible]

  The Good Shepherd is a figurative expression Jesus used of himself in John 10. It portrays the true leader as a shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep, in contrast to the hireling and the thief.

• Feast of Weeks

  [Bible]

  The Feast of Weeks was one of Israel's three pilgrimage festivals, at which the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were offered. It was observed after counting seven weeks from the day the first sheaf of grain was presented, and in the New Testament it is called Pentecost.

• The Seventy Disciples

  [Bible]

  The Seventy Disciples were a group of disciples whom Jesus Christ appointed in addition to the Twelve and sent ahead of him, two by two, into every city and place he was about to visit. They appear only in Luke 10. Some manuscripts and translations give their number as seventy-two.

• Excommunication

  [Organization & 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.

• Preterism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Preterism is an interpretive approach holding that most of the prophecies of Revelation and of Jesus' end-time discourse were already fulfilled in the first century, particularly around the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.

• New Testament Apocrypha

  [Bible]

  The New Testament Apocrypha is a collective term for early Christian writings that tell stories about Jesus and the apostles or bear an apostle's name but were not included among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament canon.

• Judicial Law

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  In the theological tradition that divides the Mosaic law into moral, ceremonial, and judicial law, judicial law refers to the civil and criminal regulations that governed the national and social life of ancient Israel. It is also called civil law.