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• Local Church

  [Heresies & Cults]

  The Local Church is a Christian movement begun in twentieth-century China by Watchman Nee and continued and spread by Witness Lee. Holding that there is only one church in each city, it does not use denominational names. Several Korean Presbyterian denominations have declared it heretical.

• Armenian Apostolic Church

  [Denominations]

  The Armenian Apostolic Church is the traditional church of the Armenian people. It belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which did not accept the Christological definition of the Council of Chalcedon. It traces its origins to the tradition that the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew founded it.

• Coptic Orthodox Church

  [Denominations]

  The Coptic Orthodox Church is a church of the Oriental Orthodox family centered in Egypt. It regards Mark the Evangelist as its founder and is known for not accepting the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

• Minjung Church

  [Organization & Polity]

  A minjung church is a church that regards workers, the urban poor, and other socially marginalized people as the "minjung" (the people) and makes standing with them, in the places where they live, the center of its mission. Minjung churches took shape in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s alongside minjung theology.

• Deposition (Church Discipline)

  [Organization & Polity]

  Deposition is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a minister, elder, or deacon is stripped of the office itself. It is distinct from excommunication, which also removes church membership.

• Visible and Invisible Church

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The visible and invisible church is a concept that views the church under two aspects. The invisible church is the whole body of true believers known only to God, while the visible church consists of the actual communities on earth that profess the faith and gather together.

• Confessing Church

  [History]

  The Confessing Church was a movement of German Protestant pastors and church members who, in the 1930s, resisted the Nazi state's attempt to take control of the church. In 1934 it set forth its standard of faith in the Barmen Theological Declaration.

• Suspension (Church Discipline)

  [Organization & Polity]

  Suspension is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a pastor, elder, or deacon retains the office itself but is barred from performing its duties, either for a set period or indefinitely.

• Medieval Church

  [History]

  The medieval church refers to the Western European church, centered on the pope in Rome, from about the fifth century to about the fifteenth century. Papal power grew and then declined during this period, which formed the background to the sixteenth-century Reformation.

• Cell Church

  [History]

  The cell church is a model of ministry that understands the church as a network of small groups, or cells, that grow and multiply on their own. The term also refers to a movement that spread in South Korea from the late 1990s. This article also covers G12, one branch of the cell church movement.

• Missional Church

  [History]

  The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world. It understands mission not as one of the church's many activities but as its very essence. The term gained wide currency through a book published in North America in 1998.

• Emerging Church

  [History]

  The emerging church was a church-renewal movement that arose in the Western evangelical world, particularly in the United States, from the late 1990s through the 2000s. It sought forms of worship, community, and mission suited to postmodern culture, and it spread not as a denomination but as a loose "conversation."

• German Church Struggle

  [History]

  The German Church Struggle refers to the conflicts experienced by the churches in Germany during the Nazi era (1933–1945). In the narrower sense, it denotes the struggle between the pro-Nazi "German Christian" movement and the opposing Confessing Church over control of German Protestantism and its confession of faith.

• History of the Anglican Church in Korea

  [History]

  The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. The church began as a diocese under the Church of England, received its first Korean bishop in 1965, and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.

• Presbyterian Church of Chosen

  [History]

  The Presbyterian Church of Chosen was the first General Assembly organization of Korean Presbyterianism, formed in Pyongyang in September 1912 by seven presbyteries. It was renamed the Presbyterian Church in Korea in 1949, and many Presbyterian denominations today regard it as their common root.

• Korean Church Service Corps

  [Institutions]

  The Korean Church Service Corps (abbreviated Hangyobong) is an interdenominational Protestant service organization that grew out of the joint cleanup work churches carried out after the 2007 Taean oil spill in South Korea. Its work centers on disaster relief and assistance to neighbors in need.

• Installation of Church Officers

  [Worship & Rites]

  The installation of church officers is a rite in which a church formally sets apart the officers it has elected, such as elders, deacons, and, in Korean churches, kwonsa (exhorters). In Korean Protestant usage, the rite is called an ordination service when it involves the laying on of hands, an inauguration service when duties are entrusted without the laying on of hands, and a pastoral installation service when a pastor is installed in a local church.

• Board of Church Officers (Jejikhoe)

  [Organization & Polity]

  The board of church officers (jejikhoe) is a deliberative body in which a congregation's officers, such as pastors, elders, deacons, and kwonsas, meet to discuss and carry out the practical work of church finances and service. It is found chiefly in Korean Presbyterian churches, where it operates under the provisions of the church constitution.

• Non-Self-Supporting Church

  [Organization & Polity]

  A non-self-supporting church is a church that cannot cover its pastor's living allowance and operating expenses from its members' offerings alone and therefore receives support from its denomination or from other churches. It is also called a "future self-supporting church."

• Homosexuality and the Church

  [Controversies]

  Homosexuality and the church concerns how churches should respond to homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ church members and clergy. In South Korea, most denominations hold the traditional position that homosexuality is sin, and the issue is closely intertwined with the debate over enacting an anti-discrimination law.