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• Cooperating Pastor

  [Church Offices]

  A cooperating pastor is an ordained pastor who is affiliated with a church or institution and assists the senior pastor in ministry. The title is used mainly in Presbyterian churches, and its conditions of service and standing within the presbytery vary according to each denomination's constitution.

• Gift of Prophecy

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The gift of prophecy is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and refers to the ability to convey God's will and word to people. Denominations differ on whether the gift continues today and on what should be regarded as prophecy.

• Dawn Prayer Meeting

  [Worship & Rites]

  The dawn prayer meeting is a gathering held at church in the early hours before sunrise for hymn singing, Scripture, and prayer. It is regarded as one of the most characteristic devotional practices of Korean Protestantism and is also called dawn prayer or the dawn service.

• Small Group

  [Christian Life]

  A small group is a gathering within a church in which anywhere from a few to a dozen or so members meet regularly to share Scripture, pray, and care for one another. Depending on the church and denomination, such groups go by various names, including cells and classes; Korean churches also use terms such as guyeok (district), sokhoe (class), mokjang (pasture), darakbang (upper room), and sun.

• Prayer

  [Christian Life]

  Prayer is an act of faith in which believers offer praise, thanksgiving, confession, and petition to God; Protestants commonly describe it as "conversation with God." Korean Protestant churches are known for their active prayer gatherings, such as early morning prayer meetings and praying aloud together (tongseong gido).

• Habakkuk

  [Bible]

  Habakkuk is the eighth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophet's question of why evil is allowed to persist, together with God's answer, and it is widely known for the verse "the just shall live by his faith" (Habakkuk 2:4).

• The Widow's Two Mites

  [Bible]

  The widow's two mites refers to the incident in which Jesus, watching at the treasury of the Temple in Jerusalem, saw a poor widow put in two mites, all that she had, and declared that she had put in more than anyone else. It is recorded in the Gospels of Mark and Luke.

• Land-Treading Prayer

  [Christian Life]

  Land-treading prayer is a devotional practice in which believers walk through a particular area or building and pray for it on site. Practitioners ground it in passages such as Joshua 1:3. Among Korean Protestant churches it is used in preparation for evangelism and mission, but prayer conducted at the sites of other religions has also provoked public controversy in South Korea.

• Ordination Offering

  [Organization & Polity]

  An ordination offering is an offering made by a person receiving a church office, such as elder, kwonsa (a female lay office), or ordained deacon, on the occasion of the ordination service. The practice is widespread in Korean Protestant churches. Some regard it as an expression of gratitude, while others criticize it as a way of buying church office with money.

• Redemption

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Redemption is the act of paying a price to release a slave or captive and set that person free. In Christianity, it refers to the teaching that Christ paid the price through his death on the cross and thereby set people free from sin and death.

• National Salvation Prayer Meeting

  [Christian Life]

  A national salvation prayer meeting is a church prayer gathering held for the well-being of a nation and its people when the country faces a crisis or a matter of great national importance. In a broader sense, the practice is also called "prayer for the nation."

• Jehoahaz

  [People]

  Jehoahaz was the eleventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Jehu. According to 2 Kings 13, he suffered long oppression at the hands of Hazael king of Aram and then sought the LORD. A king of Judah also bore the same name.

• Open Doors

  [Institutions]

  Open Doors is an interdenominational international mission organization begun in 1955 by Brother Andrew of the Netherlands. It supports churches and believers in regions where Christians face persecution and publishes an annual ranking of Christian persecution, the World Watch List.

• Idelette de Bure

  [People]

  Idelette de Bure was a sixteenth-century woman from the Low Countries and the wife of the Reformer John Calvin. After the death of her first husband, an Anabaptist, she married Calvin in Strasbourg in 1540. She died in Geneva in 1549.

• Colossians 2:16–17

  [Bible Verses]

  Paul's instruction that no one should judge believers in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival, a new moon, or the Sabbath. Because Paul declares that these things are a shadow pointing to Christ, the passage serves as a key text in debates over the Sabbath, the Lord's Day, and dietary laws.

• Romans 2:4

  [Bible Verses]

  Romans 2:4 states that God's goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering lead people to repentance. It is frequently cited as a warning against mistaking the postponement of judgment for acquittal.

• Philippians 3:7–10

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which the apostle Paul declares that he counts the Jewish credentials he once prized as "loss" and "dung" compared with the knowledge of Christ. Because it contrasts the righteousness of the law with the righteousness of faith, it is frequently cited as a basis for the doctrine of justification.

• Erasmus

  [People]

  Erasmus (c. 1466–1536) was a Dutch Catholic priest and humanist scholar. In 1516 he produced the first printed Greek New Testament to be published and circulated, a work that profoundly influenced the Reformation and Bible translation.

• Authorship of the Bible

  [Bible]

  The authorship of the Bible concerns who wrote each of the books of Scripture. The Bible speaks both of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and of the writing of human authors, and denominations and scholars differ in how they understand the authorship and inspiration of each book.

• 1 Timothy 2

  [Bible]

  1 Timothy 2 is the chapter in which Paul addresses public prayer and order in the church's worship. It contains instructions on prayer for all people and for those in authority, on Christ as the one mediator, and on how men and women are to pray, adorn themselves, and learn.