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• Sanctuary (Church Building)

  [Worship & Rites]

  A sanctuary is a building or space in which a congregation gathers for worship. Among a church's facilities, the largest space used for Sunday worship is often called the main sanctuary.

• Minister Without Charge

  [Church Offices]

  A minister without charge is a title used in Presbyterian constitutions for an ordained minister who retains ministerial standing but has no church or institution in which he or she is assigned to serve.

• Korean Immigrant Church

  [Denominations]

  A Korean immigrant church is a Protestant church in which Koreans living abroad gather to worship in Korean. In addition to serving as a community of faith, such churches have long been focal points of Korean immigrant communities.

• Christophany

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A Christophany is an appearance of Christ, the Son, in visible form during the Old Testament period before his birth in human flesh. The term also refers to the interpretation that understands certain appearances in this way.

• Guardian Angel

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A guardian angel is an angel whom God sends to protect a person or community; the term also refers to the belief that God sends such angels. The Catholic Church teaches it as doctrine, while Protestants generally affirm angelic protection but do not insist that each person is assigned a single angel.

• Baptismal Font

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A baptismal font is a vessel that holds the water used for baptism, or a fixture in which such a vessel is mounted on a pedestal. Also called a baptismal stand, it is used chiefly for baptism by sprinkling or pouring.

• Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary Ceremony (Hoehonsik)

  [Christian Life]

  A sixtieth wedding anniversary ceremony is held in the sixtieth year of a couple's marriage to commemorate their life together. In Korean Protestant churches it is usually observed as a thanksgiving service for the anniversary.

• Seventieth Birthday Thanksgiving Service

  [Christian Life]

  A seventieth birthday thanksgiving service is a worship service in which a person who has reached his or her seventieth birthday, together with the family, gives thanks to God for the life lived thus far. Korean Protestant churches have practiced it as a Christian rite that transforms the traditional seventieth birthday feast.

• Baptistery

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A baptistery is a water tank or pool installed in a sanctuary or an adjoining church space for administering baptism by immersing the whole body in water. It is also called a baptismal pool.

• Heavenly Send-off Service

  [Christian Life]

  A heavenly send-off service is a name used in Korean Protestant churches for a Christian funeral service, expressing the idea of sending a departed believer on to heaven. It usually refers to the service held as the coffin departs for burial.

• Investigative Judgment

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The investigative judgment is a doctrine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church teaching that since 1844 Christ has been conducting a judgment in the heavenly sanctuary, examining the records of believers before His Second Coming.

• Juridical Parable

  [Bible]

  A juridical parable is a biblical narrative form in which a seemingly unrelated case is presented so that the hearer pronounces judgment, only for that judgment to turn back upon the hearer. Nathan's parable to David is the best-known example.

• Date-Setting Eschatology

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Date-setting eschatology is the practice of predicting a specific date or year for Christ's Second Coming or the end of the world. In South Korea it became widely known through the claim that the Rapture would occur on October 28, 1992.

• Papal Infallibility

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Papal infallibility is the Roman Catholic doctrine that the pope is free from error when, under certain conditions, he formally defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals; Protestants do not accept it.

• Methods of Bible Reading

  [Christian Life]

  Methods of Bible reading are the various approaches that individuals and communities use when reading the Bible. They include reading straight through the Bible, close reading, meditation, reading aloud, copying Scripture by hand, and memorization.

• Interim Moderator of Session

  [Organization & Polity]

  In Presbyterian churches, an interim moderator of session is a minister whom the presbytery temporarily appoints to preside over a congregation's session when the church has no senior pastor or the session cannot otherwise be led by its pastor.

• Ecumenical Councils

  [History]

  The ecumenical councils were assemblies of bishops representing the whole Church that decided matters of doctrine and church discipline. The seven councils held between 325 and 787 are recognized by both the Eastern and Western churches.

• Antiochus IV Epiphanes

  [People]

  Antiochus IV Epiphanes was king of the Seleucid Empire from 175 to 164 BC. He defiled the Jerusalem temple and persecuted Judaism, provoking the Maccabean Revolt, and he is frequently discussed in the interpretation of the Book of Daniel.

• Offering

  [Christian Life]

  An offering is money that Christians give to God as an expression of gratitude and faith, or the act of giving it. It is usually presented during the offertory in worship. In the early Korean Protestant church it was commonly called yeonbo.

• Aretas

  [People]

  Aretas was a king of Nabataea (northern Arabia) whose name appears in the passage where the apostle Paul recalls a crisis he faced in Damascus. Scholars usually identify him as Aretas IV.