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• Church Growth Movement

  [History]

  The Church Growth Movement is a current within evangelical missiology that sought to study the causes of church growth through surveys, statistics, and sociology and to apply the findings to evangelism and mission. It originated in the 1950s with the missionary Donald McGavran and is also known as church growth studies.

• 1973 Billy Graham Crusade in Korea

  [History]

  A large-scale united evangelistic campaign held at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul from May 30 to June 3, 1973, at which the American evangelist Billy Graham preached. More than 1.1 million people are reported to have gathered on the final day.

• Sunday School Movement

  [History]

  The Sunday school movement was a church education movement that spread Sunday schools, which teach the Bible to children and adults on the Lord's Day. In Korea, the movement centered on the Korea Sunday School Association, organized in 1922.

• Korean National Christian Council

  [History]

  The Korean National Christian Council (Joseon Yesugyo Yeonhap Gonguihoe) was a Protestant cooperative body organized in September 1924 at Saemoonan Church in Seoul. Korean Presbyterian and Methodist churches, foreign mission boards, and Christian organizations took part in it, and it is regarded as the parent body of today's National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK).

• Disciple-making Ministries International

  [Institutions]

  Disciple-making Ministries International (DMI) is a discipleship training ministry affiliated with SaRang Community Church in South Korea. Founded in 1986 by Pastor Oak Han-hum, it has conducted the CAL Seminar, a discipleship leadership seminar for pastors.

• INRI

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  INRI is the abbreviation of the Latin inscription "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum" (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews), the wording of the notice of the charge placed on the cross above Jesus.

• Servant (Bible)

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, a servant is a person bound to serve another. The term can refer to the institution of slavery in the Old Testament, and it is also used in a religious sense for those who serve God and for the servanthood of Jesus Christ.

• Proverbs 4

  [Bible]

  In Proverbs 4, a father passes on to his sons the instruction he himself received and urges them to get wisdom. He contrasts the path of the righteous with the way of the wicked and teaches them to guard the heart, mouth, eyes, and feet.

• Church Bylaws

  [Organization & Polity]

  Church bylaws are a written body of self-governing rules that set out the basic principles of a church's operation, including its purpose, membership qualifications, decision-making bodies, election of officers, and management of finances and property.

• Westminster Confession of Faith

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith produced by the Westminster Assembly in seventeenth-century England. Together with the Larger and Shorter Catechisms prepared by the same assembly, it serves as the doctrinal standard for most Presbyterian churches worldwide, including most Presbyterian denominations in Korea.

• Communion of Churches in Korea

  [Institutions]

  The Communion of Churches in Korea (CCIK; Korean abbreviation Hangyoyeon) is a Protestant interdenominational body founded in 2012 amid internal conflict within the Christian Council of Korea (CCK). Its founding members included the Tonghap, Gaehyeok, Daeshin, and Baekseok branches of the Presbyterian Church in Korea.

• Cross (Christian Symbol)

  [Worship & Rites]

  The cross is the principal emblem of Christianity, representing the death of Jesus Christ on the cross and His resurrection. It is widely used on church buildings and pulpits and in jewelry.

• Women's Evangelistic Society

  [Organization & Polity]

  A Women's Evangelistic Society is a self-governing association formed by the women members of a church for evangelism, missions, and service. Methodist churches and some other denominations call it a Women's Missionary Society.

• Evangelism Explosion

  [Christian Life]

  Evangelism Explosion is a lay evangelism training program begun in the early 1960s by the American Presbyterian minister D. James Kennedy. It is characterized by the memorization of a set gospel presentation outline and by on-the-job training in which trainers and trainees go out together.

• Hanani

  [People]

  Hanani was a seer (prophet) in the reign of King Asa of Judah. He was imprisoned after rebuking the king for relying on the king of Aram instead of on God. He appears in 2 Chronicles 16 and is also recorded as the father of the prophet Jehu.

• Acts of Peter

  [Bible]

  The Acts of Peter is a New Testament apocryphal work generally dated to the late second century. It recounts how the apostle Peter contended with Simon Magus in Rome and was martyred by being crucified upside down.

• Jehovah-shalom

  [Bible]

  Jehovah-shalom, meaning "The LORD is peace," is the name the judge Gideon gave to the altar he built at Ophrah. The name appears in Judges 6:24.

• Maximus the Confessor

  [People]

  Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662) was a seventh-century Eastern Roman monk and theologian. He is called "the Confessor" because he suffered torture and exile for defending dyothelitism, the doctrine that Christ has two wills, one according to his divinity and one according to his humanity.

• Elkanah

  [People]

  Elkanah is a figure in the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel, the husband of Hannah and the father of the prophet Samuel. He is remembered as a man who went up to Shiloh each year with his family to worship.

• Codex Sinaiticus

  [Bible]

  Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible. It was discovered at Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai and is known as the oldest surviving manuscript that contains the complete New Testament.