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• Suspension from the Lord's Supper

  [Organization & Polity]

  Suspension from the Lord's Supper (Korean *suchan jeongji*) is a form of church discipline in which a member who has sinned is barred from participating in Communion for a period of time. The term is used chiefly in Presbyterian church constitutions.

• People of the Land

  [Bible]

  "People of the land" translates the Hebrew phrase *'am ha'aretz*. In the Old Testament, depending on period and context, it refers to the inhabitants of a land, the ordinary free citizens of Judah, or people outside the community of returned exiles. In later rabbinic literature it came to denote a person ignorant of the Law.

• Captain of the Guard

  [Bible]

  "Captain of the guard" is a biblical term for the head of a unit responsible for guarding an ancient king, carrying out executions, and similar duties. Nebuzaradan of Babylon and Potiphar of Egypt held related titles.

• Sending of the Seventy

  [Bible]

  An event in which Jesus appointed seventy others, apart from the Twelve, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every town he intended to visit. It is recorded only in Luke 10.

• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

  [People]

  Pseudo-Dionysius was an anonymous Christian writer thought to have been active in the late fifth or early sixth century. He wrote under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite, mentioned in the Book of Acts, and his negative theology and his account of the angelic hierarchy exerted a major influence on medieval theology.

• Methods of Interpreting the Book of Revelation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Methods of interpreting the Book of Revelation are approaches to understanding which events, and in which era, the visions and symbols of Revelation refer to. The principal approaches are preterism, historicism, futurism, and idealism.

• Light to the Gentiles

  [Bible]

  "Light to the Gentiles" is an expression in the Book of Isaiah indicating that the Servant of God was given a mission to bring the light of salvation beyond Israel to all nations. The New Testament applies it to Jesus Christ and to the preaching of the gospel.

• John of the Cross

  [People]

  John of the Cross (1542–1591) was a Spanish Carmelite friar, mystic, and poet. With Teresa of Ávila, he founded the Discalced Carmelites, and he wrote spiritual classics including The Dark Night.

• Religious Persecution in the Soviet Union

  [History]

  Religious persecution in the Soviet Union refers to the suppression of churches and believers by the Soviet regime after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The regime made atheism its state ideology and restricted religious activity through laws, administrative measures, propaganda, and arrests.

• Missionary Sending by the Korean Church

  [History]

  Missionary sending by the Korean church refers to the history of Korean Protestant churches and mission organizations sending missionaries to other regions and countries. Its beginning is commonly dated to the 1907 mission to Jeju Island. As of the end of 2024, there were 21,621 long-term missionaries serving in 171 countries.

• Voice of the Martyrs Korea

  [Institutions]

  Voice of the Martyrs Korea is an interdenominational mission organization that assists Christians persecuted for their faith, especially members of North Korea's underground church, and makes their stories known to the Korean church. It shares the lineage of The Voice of the Martyrs, the international organization begun by the Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand.

• Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the sin of reviling the Holy Spirit, which Jesus said "shall not be forgiven." Denominations and theologians differ on what exactly this sin is.

• Wine in the Bible

  [Bible]

  Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice. In the Bible it appears as a symbol of joy and abundance and as an element used in sacrifices and in Communion, and Scripture also warns against drunkenness.

• Goodness (Fruit of the Spirit)

  [Bible]

  Goodness (Korean *yangseon*, 良善) is one of the fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22. It refers to the goodness that appears in those who live by the Spirit, that is, a good disposition that does what is good.

• Hananiah (Ruler of the Citadel)

  [People]

  Hananiah was the ruler of the citadel (fortress) of Jerusalem mentioned in Nehemiah 7:2. After the city wall was rebuilt, Nehemiah placed Jerusalem in his charge together with Nehemiah's brother Hanani. Scripture describes him as a faithful man who feared God above many.

• Lord's Supper

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Lord's Supper is the rite instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. In it believers share the bread and the cup in remembrance of Christ's death, and it is one of the two sacraments observed by Protestants.

• Apostles' Creed

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Apostles' Creed is a confession of faith of the Western church that briefly summarizes belief in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Many Protestant churches in Korea recite it together in Sunday worship.

• 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 churches they are used, together with the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer, as core content for basic instruction in the faith.

• Lord's Prayer

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Lord's Prayer is the prayer that Jesus Christ taught his disciples. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and nearly all churches, regardless of denomination, recite it together in worship and use it in instruction.

• Trinity

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God is one in essence and exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is confessed in common by Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches.