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Lent
[Feasts & Seasons]Lent is a season of the church year lasting forty days before Easter, excluding Sundays, during which Christians meditate on the sufferings of Jesus Christ and prepare for Easter through repentance and self-denial.
Songguyeongsin Service
[Feasts & Seasons]The Songguyeongsin service is a worship service held from the night of December 31 until about midnight as January 1 begins, in which worshipers look back on the past year with thanksgiving and entrust the new year to God. It is widely observed across denominational lines in Korean Protestantism.
Bible Sunday
[Feasts & Seasons]Bible Sunday is a Sunday set aside to reflect on the value of Scripture and to pray and give offerings for the translation and distribution of the Bible. In Korea, churches observe it each year on the second Sunday of December, with the Korean Bible Society leading the observance.
Tongsung Kido
[Christian Life]Tongsung kido is a form of prayer in which everyone gathered prays aloud at the same time, each in his or her own words. Since the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907, it has become one of the characteristic prayer practices of Korean Protestantism.
Quiet Time
[Christian Life]Quiet Time (QT) is a personal devotional practice of reading a passage of Scripture, meditating on it, and praying at a set time each day.
Christmas
[Feasts & Seasons]Christmas is a Christian feast commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed by most churches on December 25. In South Korea it is a statutory public holiday officially called Gidok Tansinil ("the Day of Christ's Birth").
Thanksgiving
[Feasts & Seasons]Thanksgiving is a Protestant observance in which believers thank God for the year's harvest and for the grace they have received. Korean Protestant churches generally observe Thanksgiving Sunday on the third Sunday of November.
Reformation Sunday
[Feasts & Seasons]Reformation Sunday is a Sunday commemorating the sixteenth-century Reformation, symbolized by Martin Luther's publication of the Ninety-five Theses on October 31, 1517. Korean Protestant churches generally observe it on the last Sunday of October.
Bible Study
[Christian Life]Bible study is a learning activity, undertaken individually or in groups, in which participants read the biblical text, learn its meaning, and apply it to their lives. In Korean Protestant churches it takes many forms, including district (guyeok) and class (sokhoe) meetings, discipleship training, and doctrinal instruction.
Children's Sunday
[Feasts & Seasons]Children's Sunday is a Sunday set apart for blessing children and reflecting on the responsibility of passing the faith on to the next generation. It is also known as Flower Sunday. Korean churches usually observe it on the first Sunday of May, just before Korea's Children's Day.
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.
Fasting
[Christian Life]Fasting is a religious practice of abstaining from food for a set period in order to devote oneself to prayer, repentance, and meditation on Scripture. In Korean Protestant churches it is commonly called "fasting prayer."
Arminianism
[Doctrine & Theology]Arminianism is a Protestant theological tradition originating with the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius. It holds that God's grace comes first to human beings, who may either respond to it or resist it.
Fundamentalism
[Doctrine & Theology]Fundamentalism is a conservative theological movement that arose in early twentieth-century American Protestantism to defend biblical inerrancy and core doctrines against liberal theology; the term also denotes the theological position the movement represents.
Incarnation
[Doctrine & Theology]The Incarnation is a central Christian doctrine holding that the Son of God took on a human body and was born into the world as Jesus Christ. The doctrine expresses the confession that Christ is both true God and true man.
Pentecostalism
[Doctrine & Theology]Pentecostalism is a Protestant movement that places the experience of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit at the center of faith. It began in the United States in the early twentieth century. In Korea it is widely known under the name "Full Gospel."
Reformed Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Reformed theology is a Protestant theological tradition that continues the line of Zwingli, Calvin, and others within the sixteenth-century Reformation. It emphasizes the sovereignty of God and the authority of Scripture. In Korea, it is represented chiefly by the Presbyterian churches.
Wesleyan Theology
[Doctrine & Theology]Wesleyan theology is a theological tradition rooted in the teachings of John Wesley, who led the eighteenth-century Methodist movement in England. It emphasizes grace extended to all people and a holy life (sanctification). Methodist and Holiness churches, among others, stand within this tradition.
Charismatic Movement
[Doctrine & Theology]The charismatic movement is a stream of Christian faith that holds that gifts of the Holy Spirit such as tongues, prophecy, and divine healing are still given today, and that seeks to experience and practice them. The term refers chiefly to the renewal movement that arose within established denominations in the mid-twentieth century.
Evangelicalism
[Doctrine & Theology]Evangelicalism is a broad movement within Protestantism that emphasizes conversion, the authority of Scripture, Christ's atoning death on the cross, and evangelism and service. The term does not designate a particular denomination; it refers to a current of faith that spans many denominations.