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Korea Campus Crusade for Christ
[Institutions]Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in 1958 by the Rev. Kim Joon-gon. It is known as the first overseas branch of Campus Crusade for Christ, which began in the United States.
World Evangelical Alliance
[Institutions]The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is an international body that brings together evangelical Protestant alliances from countries around the world. It traces its origins to the Evangelical Alliance founded in London in 1846.
World Evangelization Mission Association
[Heresies & Cults]The World Evangelization Mission Association is an evangelistic movement led by Ryu Kwang-su and is also known as the "Darakbang (Upper Room) Evangelism Movement." Beginning in the mid-1990s, a number of Korean Protestant denominations designated it as heretical or pseudo-Christian. Controversy arose in 2013 when the Christian Council of Korea lifted its heresy designation.
Men's Mission Society
[Organization & Polity]The Men's Mission Society is an organization within local congregations of Korean Protestant churches through which adult male members pursue fellowship, service, and mission support. Depending on the denomination and congregation, it is also called the Men's Evangelistic Society.
Liberation Day Commemoration Sunday
[Feasts & Seasons]Liberation Day Commemoration Sunday is an observance of Korean churches, held on the Sunday near August 15, Korea's National Liberation Day, to remember the nation's 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule and to give thanks and pray for the nation and its people.
Charles Spurgeon
[People]Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) was an English Baptist minister. He pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for thirty-eight years and is known as the "Prince of Preachers." His collected sermons have been translated into many languages around the world.
Dwight L. Moody
[People]Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) was an American lay revival preacher. He led mass evangelistic campaigns in major cities, founded educational institutions including the Moody Bible Institute, and presided over the conference that gave rise to the Student Volunteer Movement.
Seo Sang-ryun
[People]Seo Sang-ryun (1848–1926) was an early Korean Protestant from Uiju, Pyeongan Province. In Manchuria he assisted the missionary John Ross in translating the Bible into Korean, and he became the first Korean colporteur, a person who sells Bibles while evangelizing. With his younger brother Seo Gyeong-jo, he founded Sorae Church in Hwanghae Province.
William Baird
[People]William Martyn Baird (1862–1931) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian), known in Korea as Bae Wi-ryang. He took part in early mission work in the Busan and Daegu regions, and in 1897 he founded Soongsil Academy in Pyongyang. He is therefore known as the founder of Soongsil University and Soongsil Middle and High Schools.
Billy Graham
[People]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.
Samuel Austin Moffett
[People]Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939) was an American Northern Presbyterian missionary to Korea, where he was known by the Korean name Ma Po-sam-yeol. He planted churches centered in Pyongyang and founded the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pyongyang, serving as its first president.
Rosetta Sherwood Hall
[People]Rosetta Sherwood Hall (1865–1951) was an American Methodist medical missionary. She arrived in Korea (Joseon) in 1890 and for more than forty years devoted herself to medical care for women, the training of women physicians, and the education of the blind.
Frank Schofield
[People]Frank William Schofield (1889–1970) was an English-born Canadian Presbyterian medical missionary and veterinary scientist. He is known in Korea by his Korean name, Seok Ho-pil (石虎弼). His photographs and writings made the March First Movement and the Jeamni massacre known to the world, and he is widely called the "34th National Representative."
Far East Broadcasting Company (Korea)
[Institutions]The Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) is an interdenominational Protestant missionary radio broadcaster in South Korea that went on the air in Incheon in 1956. It is known for domestic gospel broadcasting and for its "northern mission" broadcasts aimed at communist countries such as North Korea, China, and Russia.
1 Corinthians 7:12-16
[Bible Verses]Paul's instructions to believers living with an unbelieving spouse: if the spouse is willing to stay, the believer should not separate, and if the spouse departs, the believer should not prevent it. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of divorce and remarriage and in the debate over infant baptism.
Romans 4:1–5
[Bible Verses]In this passage Paul uses Abraham as an example to explain that a person is counted righteous by faith rather than by works. It is frequently cited as a key text for the doctrine of justification by faith, and denominations differ in how they interpret it.
The Woman Caught in Adultery
[People]The woman caught in adultery is an unnamed woman who appears in John 7:53–8:11. She is the central figure in the account in which Jesus told her accusers, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
Tower of Babel
[Bible]The Tower of Babel is an event recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. After Noah's Flood, people who spoke a single language began building a city and a tower on the plain of Shinar, but God confounded their language and scattered them over all the earth.
Daniel in the Lions' Den
[Bible]Daniel in the lions' den is an event recorded in Daniel 6. Although a decree forbade praying to anyone but the king, Daniel continued to pray to God. He was thrown into a den of lions for doing so, but he came out alive and unharmed.
Raising of Lazarus
[Bible]The raising of Lazarus is an event recorded in John 11, in which Jesus, at Bethany, raised Lazarus from the tomb after he had been dead four days. It is commonly regarded as the last and greatest of the signs in the Gospel of John.