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Church Planting by Division
[Organization & Polity]The founding of a new, independent church by an existing church (the "mother church"), which sends out some of its members, ministers, and part of its finances. Also called "daughter-church planting," it is distinct from a "church split," in which a congregation divides through conflict.
Church Bylaws
[Organization & Polity]Church bylaws are a written body of self-governing rules that set out the basic principles of a church's operation, including its purpose, membership qualifications, decision-making bodies, election of officers, and management of finances and property.
Church Finance
[Organization & Polity]Church finance is the work and system by which a church manages the money it receives through offerings and other sources, prepares and carries out budgets, and closes its accounts. The topic includes church accounting and financial disclosure.
Church Membership Register
[Christian Life]A church membership register is the record of a person's status as an enrolled member of a particular church, together with that member's personal details and history of faith; the term can also refer to the membership status itself.
Church Retreat
[Christian Life]A church retreat is a gathering in which church members leave their daily routines and stay together for several days to focus on worship, prayer, Bible study, and fellowship. In Korean Protestant churches, retreats are usually held by individual church departments during school vacations.
Church Growth in Korea
[History]The rapid increase in the number of Protestant church members and churches in South Korea during the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s through the 1980s. The term also covers the slowdown and stagnation of that growth from the 1990s onward.
Church of Almighty God
[Heresies & Cults]The Church of Almighty God (全能神教會) is a religious group that originated in China in the early 1990s. It is also known as "Eastern Lightning" or Quannengshen ("Almighty God sect"). The group believes that a Chinese woman is the returned Christ, and several Korean denominations have formally declared it heretical.
Church Volunteer Service
[Christian Life]Church volunteer service is the work that church members take on by giving their time and talents in worship, church administration, education, service to neighbors, and other areas. The term generally denotes voluntary, unpaid service.
Church Café
[Christian Life]A church café is a coffee shop that a church operates inside its sanctuary building or an auxiliary building. Its main purposes are to foster fellowship among members and to provide a place of contact with local residents.
Church in North Korea
[Denominations]The church in North Korea refers to the Protestant faith community within North Korea. In the narrow sense, the term denotes the Korean Christian Federation, the only Protestant organization recognized by the North Korean authorities, and the churches under its oversight.
Church Construction
[Controversies]The church construction debate concerns whether it is right for a church to build or expand its sanctuary, particularly with borrowed money. Views divide between those who emphasize the importance of space and devotion and those who prioritize people and financial soundness.
Sexual Violence in the Church
[Controversies]Sexual violence in the church is sexual violence that occurs within communities of faith such as churches and mission organizations. Views differ on what procedures the church should use to handle such cases and on whether a pastor who has committed abuse may return to ministry.
Church Disputes
[Controversies]Church disputes are conflicts among church members over matters such as pastoral calls, finances, church discipline, and denominational affiliation. The principal issues are whether members may bring suit in civil courts and to whom property belongs when a church divides.
Church Fathers
[History]The Church Fathers are the leaders and theologians of the early church who, from the late first century to around the eighth century, helped establish the framework of Christian doctrine, biblical interpretation, and worship.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
[History]The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Old City of Jerusalem, built on the site traditionally identified as Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, and as the tomb in which he was buried. First built under Constantine the Great in the fourth century, it is now administered jointly by several denominations.
Church History
[History]Church history is the history of the church, or the academic discipline that studies that history. Eusebius's fourth-century Ecclesiastical History is regarded as the beginning of systematic writing in the field. Today church history is taught in seminaries as a branch of historical theology.
Church of Antioch
[History]The church of Antioch was an early church founded in the first century in Antioch, a major city of Syria. It was there that believers were first called "Christians," and it was this church that sent Barnabas and Paul on the mission to the Gentiles.
Church in Rome
[History]The church in Rome was the Christian community in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, during the first century. It was the church to which the apostle Paul addressed his Epistle to the Romans, and it appears to have consisted of several house congregations.
Church Growth Movement
[History]The Church Growth Movement is a current within evangelical missiology that sought to study the causes of church growth through surveys, statistics, and sociology and to apply the findings to evangelism and mission. It originated in the 1950s with the missionary Donald McGavran and is also known as church growth studies.
Church Music
[Doctrine & Theology]Church music is the general term for the music the church uses in worship and in the life of faith. It includes congregational hymns, choral anthems, responses, and accompaniment.