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Fellowship
[Christian Life]Fellowship is the communion and sharing that Christians have with God and with one another in the faith. The term translates the New Testament Greek word koinonia, which is also rendered "communion" or "participation."
Vacation Bible School
[Christian Life]Vacation Bible School is an educational event in which a church gathers children and youth for several days during the summer vacation for Bible teaching, singing, and recreational activities. It is also called Bible school or VBS.
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.
Discipleship Training
[Christian Life]Discipleship training is a form of Christian education in which church members receive systematic instruction over a set period, through small-group Bible study, prayer, and examination of daily life, so that they may live as disciples of Jesus Christ. In Korea it spread widely as a program of lay training through Ok Han-heum and SaRang Community Church.
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.
Building Fund Offering
[Christian Life]A building fund offering is an offering collected separately from general offerings to pay for constructing, purchasing, or renovating church buildings such as sanctuaries and education buildings.
Short-Term Missions
[Christian Life]Short-term missions are trips in which church members travel to domestic or overseas mission fields, for periods ranging from a few days to several weeks and in longer cases one to two years, to assist local churches and to engage in evangelism and service. In Korean churches the practice is also widely known as a "vision trip."
House Church
[Christian Life]A house church is a form of church in which believers gather in homes to share meals, study the Word, and pray together as a community. Among Korean Protestants, the term usually refers to the pastoral model that Pastor Young-Gi Chai began at Seoul Baptist Church of Houston.
Jesus Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]Jesus Christ is the central figure of the Christian faith. Christianity confesses Jesus of Nazareth, who ministered in first-century Judea and was crucified, as the Messiah and the Son of God, and calls him by this name.
Young Adult Ministry
[Christian Life]A young adult ministry is an age-based church department that follows the church school years and gathers mainly college students and unmarried young adults in their twenties and thirties. Depending on the church, it may also be called a young adults' association or a college ministry.
Atonement
[Doctrine & Theology]The atonement is the Christian doctrine concerning the work by which Jesus Christ, through his death on the cross, dealt with human sin and reconciled God and humanity. It is also referred to as substitutionary atonement.
Conversion
[Christian Life]Conversion is the change by which a person turns from sin to God and comes to believe in Jesus Christ. The term is often used alongside "being born again" and "regeneration," although some denominations distinguish conversion from regeneration.
Grace
[Doctrine & Theology]Grace is the favor and gift that God freely bestows on those who do not deserve it. Protestantism holds that a person attains salvation not on the basis of his or her own merit but by the grace of God.
New Members' Class
[Christian Life]A new members' class is an introductory course, typically lasting several weeks, in which people who have newly joined a church learn the basics of the Christian faith and the life of that congregation. It is also called a new believers' class.
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.
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.
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.
Predestination
[Doctrine & Theology]Predestination is the Christian doctrine that God determined the salvation of human beings from all eternity. It is emphasized by the Calvinist tradition, including Presbyterians, while the Wesleyan tradition, including Methodists and the Holiness Church, places greater emphasis on the human response.
Second Coming
[Doctrine & Theology]The Second Coming is the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ, who ascended into heaven, will return at the end of the world. Many Protestant denominations share this confession, though they differ in how they understand its timing and the order of end-time events.
Holy Spirit
[Doctrine & Theology]The Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit whom Christianity confesses, together with the Father and the Son, as one person of the triune God. An older English name is the Holy Ghost.