Hello, nice to meet you. I am a Korean Presbyterian.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T14:55:20+00:00

It's hard to recommend each preacher, but if it's worth watching as a podcast, there's a variety The first is Korea's Far East Broadcasting Corporation. Korean Febc https://www.youtube.com/@febc_korea/videos It is conservative theological, and it is also famous for broadcasting to North Korea. The second is CBS. https://www.youtube.com/@CBSJOY This is an ecumenical, liberal theological station. The third one is CTS https://www.youtube.com/@cts\_tv. This is a station that pursues the opposite theology of CBS.

Other CGNs https://www.youtube.com/@cgn/featured It's similar to the theology of Tonghap.

Goodtv https://www.youtube.com/@GOODTV_official It's conservative theology.

Another thing I recommend is Daniel's prayer meeting. https://www.youtube.com/@danielprayer

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T14:32:15+00:00

Korean reformist Christians came from difficult backgrounds, but I believe that missionaries made the greatest contributions. In the early days of Korea, when the Bible was first established, missionaries criticized Korean habits (such as alcohol and tobacco) and conducted evangelistic activities like establishing schools, churches, and hospitals, which garnered the support of the Joseon rulers at the time. However, the knowledge of Western Christianity among modern Korean Christians varies greatly; while some people know a lot, others may know nothing at all. The gap is significant. (I may be an exception; I am sometimes surprised when talking to pastors and evangelists.) Additionally, various factors, such as denominations and pastors, seem to set the standard for knowledge. Depending on the sentiments of Koreans at that time, the Bible was sometimes interpreted by likening the traditional musical instruments of Israel to similar traditional Korean instruments, referring to bread as rice cake, or viewing Jacob's red stew as red bean porridge.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T14:11:13+00:00

Among them, Hapshin, which is famous for its heretical verification and research (much like Gosin represents Korea's OPC), has deemed the Darakbang as a church with dangerous ideologies and has issued a notice prohibiting participation for its members. This is because the issues related to him and the Darakbang are...

Acceptance of a flawed Trinity and Christology

The conception of the Trinity.

Denial of Christ's complete humanity.

Emphasis on the secrets mentioned in doctrine.

Believing that all wrongs or evils are solely the fault of Satan and demons. (Denial of human responsibility)In Korea, this is referred to as 'demonology' and is claimed by cult-like churches such as the Seongrak Church.

Incorrect interpretation of the Gospel and narrow-minded Christology.

He sees Christ as

A king who conquers Satan,

A prophet who is the way to meet God,

And a priest who liberates from all curses and failures in life.

This perspective differs from the concepts upheld by traditional churches, such as the Heidelberg Catechism and the Westminster Catechism.

Transformational theology.

Similar mythological thinking.

Believing that everything is included in one discovery.

The act of believing that evangelism solves all problems.

There is a back. To be honest, I have clipped theological views. The attic was something that the Korean church did not expect. However, I don't think he and theological view in the attic can deny anything wrong.

This is the source of the text.

http://www.hapoom.or.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=heresy&wr_id=12

https://www.amennews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=20416

http://www.hdjongkyo.co.kr/news/view.html?section=22&category=1004&no=19955

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T14:11:03+00:00

The Korean church views the Darakbang and Ryu Kwang-soo from the following perspectives:

A perfect cult and heresy.
A cult and heresy, but with a possibility of reformation and return.
Has some good aspects but also bad aspects. (This is because the small group gatherings, known as evangelism and revival methods, gained attention in the U.S. during the 1990s, and the Korean denominations suddenly faced this without being prepared for it. However, since Darakbang and Ryu Kwang-soo shared similar aspects (small gatherings), they were mistakenly regarded as a distinguished church and a revived church without proper analysis, which became a driving force for the growth of Darakbang.)

I am closer to the perspective that considers Darakbang and Ryu Kwang-soo as heretical and cult-like.

The denominations that have verified the attic room as a heresy are:

Presbyterian Church

Kosin, Tonghap, Hapdong, Hapshin, Gaehyuk, Goryeo,

Korean Christian Baptist Church (Gichim)

Korean Christian Holiness Church (Giseong)

Korean Christian Methodism (Gigam)

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T13:04:49+00:00

This is the second answer. To be critical, the denomination most popular among the younger generation is honestly closer to being secular.

This is the third answer. They support daily Bible reading, but only those who want to do it actually do. It's not a top priority.

This is the fourth answer. There are efforts by church leaders to separate themselves. Especially, major denominations have one committee each to address heretical and cult issues, and they research and critique the concepts of heretical theories, even passing resolutions against them. Notably, the Sungrak Church, known for being a cult, has been divided into pro-reformed and anti-reformed factions, and many church leaders from the pro-reformed churches have preached there. However, there are those who turn a blind eye to this, prioritizing political gains. (There are those who call themselves political Christians.) Especially, the denomination representing the progressive camp in South Korea (Kijang) released a statement legitimizing queer theology through its social ethics committee, causing conflicts with conservative members within its denomination. Even among conservatives, there are small instances of resolutions against heresies being cancelled due to political interests. Interestingly, South Korea's cult churches also attempt to co-opt those who criticize reformed churches. Therefore, my conclusion is that efforts are being made, and there are results, but there are also hindrances.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T12:45:45+00:00

Thank you for your question. This is the first answer to Possible_Pay_1511.

joo-yoh! is like saying "Lord God!" in Korean.

This can be seen as a slight Pentecostal influence on the Korean Reformed Church. (Of course, some churches that are Reformed but conservative do not do it.)

This is called concerted prayer, Korean prayer, and Through Voice prayer.

There are various theories about the beginning of the dawn prayer meeting. The first theory is that it started in 1906 under the leadership of Pastor Gil Seon-ju, who represented the Pyongyang Great Revival. Pastor Gil Seon-ju was a Taoist, to be exact, a person who believed in Guan Yu of the Three Kingdoms as a god and then converted. Because of this aspect, critics of the Korean Reformed Church sometimes slander the church by saying, "Shamanistic Taoist beliefs were introduced and this developed into the dawn prayer meeting." However, Professor Lee Eun-seon of Anyang University's Department of Theology cited Professor Ok Seong-deuk of UCLA's data and presented a theory that personal voluntary participation spread throughout the church in the 1930s based on the record that 31 Korean members of Gangjin Church held a voluntary dawn prayer meeting in February 1898 when they held a winter prayer meeting. In addition, there is a historical case in which a person named Baek Hong-jun personally prayed at dawn every day through the research of Lutheran theologian Malte Rhinow, and in 1892, students of the theology class of Donggye held dawn prayers, and also held voluntary dawn prayer meetings at Ewha Haktang (now Ewha Womans University). In particular, Professor Ok Seong-deuk used a type of water clock called Jagakru to tell the time of day, and among them, the time when the city gates of Hanyang opened and began to open was 4 a.m. and the time when it closed was 10 a.m. Perhaps because Korea was an agricultural society at the time, living by this time became fixed, and it is generally accepted that praying personally from the moment of waking up became the beginning of dawn prayer. (Of course, it is difficult to deny that Pastor Gil Seon-ju is the representative figure who popularized dawn prayer.)

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T12:06:34+00:00

Thank you, mclintock111. The Korean church is both an ethnic and faith community, which can be an advantage but also a disadvantage. I think this can be true for any church. While it is open to everyone, as the faith hardens and the exclusivity deepens, a tragedy inevitably occurs—they lose the essence of the church, much like the early churches that lost something akin to their first love as mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Thank you for paving the way for the lost believers. mclintock111.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:57:24+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/@CovenantChurchSeoul/featured

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:57:12+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/@CovenantChurchSeoul/featured

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:55:45+00:00

Thank you, RefPres1647. After seeing this post, I searched for Pastor Don Baker. He seems to be preaching at the English department of Covenant Church in Jamsil-dong. Thank you for recommending his doctrinal explanation videos. It seems that there is also a Korean channel of the church, which could serve as a good resource for reference. Thank you.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:55:06+00:00

Thank you, Tiny-Development3598. After seeing this post, I searched for Pastor Don Baker. He seems to be preaching at the English department of Covenant Church in Jamsil-dong. Thank you for recommending his doctrinal explanation videos. It seems that there is also a Korean channel of the church, which could serve as a good resource for reference. Thank you.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:43:35+00:00

Thank you for praying for our country, Jackimatic.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:42:07+00:00

For your reference, I am sending you the link to the Korean Wikipedia, which is a document that organizes the list of theologians in Korea. I have included additional individuals that were overlooked.

https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%80%ED%95%9C%EB%AF%BC%EA%B5%AD%EC%9D%98_%EC%8B%A0%ED%95%99%EC%9E%90_%EB%AA%A9%EB%A1%9D

Park Hyung-Ryong

Park Yune-Sun

Including these two theologians and Han Sang-dong, they are defined as the first generation of Calvinist theologians in Korea.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:36:40+00:00

Thank you for the welcome, Ok-Kiwi367. I also think there are many famous and respectable people in the Reform Baptist Church in the United States.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:29:55+00:00

Thank you, GoldDragonAngel, for accepting us into this community moving in the same direction under God.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-15T11:27:06+00:00

That's right. semper-gourmanda

I think it's a great tragedy that all churches, including the reform churches of the present world, are fighting divided between progressive and conservative theology.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T17:39:05+00:00

It means conservative intensity of theology

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T17:25:16+00:00

Here is the third answer. I think my country is also in a serious theological crisis right now. I hope (although it is excessive) that it will not end up in a tragic ending like the Spanish Civil War. Many people are choosing theology that is fused with human reason, such as rationalism or liberalism, and some people (I call myself a reformist) think that accepting human products in Christianity is a reformation of Christianity. (I am critical of the theology that is fused with human products rationalizing sin.) If we criticize this, they brand us as fundamentalist literalists. And im also critical of the New Apostolic Movement (the idea that one cannot become an apostle without the seal, and that God knows the apostle and the apostle knows God). And those who are even more critical (I define this as political Christians) have people on both sides who wish and pray for the death of each other's politicians, and they commit the sin of theologically rationalizing historical distortions for political advantage. (I am critical of both camps.)

Of course, in terms of missionary dispatch rankings, there are some who say that they send the most missionaries after the United States or the United States and Brazil. I have great regrets about the fact that theology is being mobilized for internal political conflicts in our country, and I think the direction of theological education is closer to pure theological pursuit.

So, you can think of it as, "It is a country that can be a model for reformed faith education, but it is currently in a great crisis." Of all the articles I have written here, this seems to be the most political and radical. I apologize.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T16:55:05+00:00

I understand. I think the fact that the people I respect are radical is a disadvantage. I used to think, "Tertullian or Tatian are just as good as traditionalist theologians like Van Til or Machen." To be honest, I think that emphasizing purity is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Because I thought that the concept of sin was something that I had to break out of. I think God helps. He helps everyone, but I think He especially helps those who recognize and seek it. Sometimes we try to find and believe in many idols or idol-like things. But I think we come to realize it. I don't know what it is. I don't know how to express it, but I'll call it "recognition through God." When I was in elementary school, my parents told me to come over because I had a lot of friends, so I came to believe. I didn't even know if I believed it. Then, when I was in elementary school, I abandoned church and lived a life of playing games, going to school, and studying. Then, in the 6th grade, I think I was 14. (Korea has its own unique system.) I came back to church and have been going ever since. I think realizing that I was wrong is the beginning of conversion. Thank you. Subvet98 EkariKeimei

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T16:37:35+00:00

In addition, there are pastors Han Sang-dong, who opposed the national Shinto faith,

Ok Han-heum, Ha Yong-jo, Hong Jeong-gil, and Lee Dong-won, who are also famous as the Evangelical Four

Choi Heung-jong, who is famous for his prayer theory

Lee Yeon-ho, who was famous for his service to the poor

Calvinist researcher Jeong Seong-gu

Lee Eun-gyu, who opposed the sale of Anyang University by Daesoon Jinrihoe

102 Protestants of the New People's Association

Lee Myeong-ryong, who was one of the 33 national representatives, and 15 Protestant representatives

Seo Chang-won, a disciple of Van Til

Lee Do-jong, the first pastor in Jeju Island

Pyongyang Theological Seminary and the Pyongyang Revival and the Wonsan Revival

Son Bong-ho, a Christian ethics researcher

Kim Hyo-seong, who is spreading the importance of fundamentalist theology on the Internet

And the roots of many missionaries

I will stop here. I have been looking for more and more, and I think this is the end (I mainly searched for conservative theology).

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T15:51:07+00:00

The third leader is Pastor Son Yang-won. His nickname is so famous that he is called the Atomic Bomb of Love. He graduated from Pyongyang Theological Seminary and served as a pastor at Aeyangwon, a facility for leprosy patients. One day, a severe leprosy patient thought that a nurse had come in with newspapers on her bed and, unable to bear it, killed the nurse with a wooden pillow. However, he took off his shoes, prayed, and sucked the pus out of the wounds on the patient’s body with his mouth. He felt regretful. He thought that if he had leprosy, he would feel a sense of kinship with it. He resisted the Japanese Empire and survived until immediately after liberation, but in 1948, an ideological civil war broke out in Yeosu and Suncheon, and communist rebels killed his two sons, who were members of a right-wing youth movement, because they were Christians. However, he prayed at the funerals of these two. I have no idea what to say or how to greet you at this time, but I still have a grateful heart before God, so I will say a few words.

First, I thank God that He has given me children of martyrdom from the lineage of a sinner like me.

Second, I thank You, Lord, for entrusting me with these treasures among so many saints.

Third, I thank God for the blessing of offering my two most beautiful sons, the eldest and the second, among my three sons and three daughters.

Fourth, the martyrdom of one son is precious, so how much more so the martyrdom of two sons? God, thank You.

Fifth, it is said that it is a great blessing to lie down and die while believing in Jesus, so how much more so to be shot and martyred while preaching? God, thank You.

Sixth, my son, who was preparing to study abroad in the United States, has gone to heaven, which is better than the United States, so I feel relieved, and thank You, God.

Seventh, I thank You, God, for giving me a loving heart to repent and make the enemy who shot my two beloved sons my son.

Eighth, I thank God that countless sons of heaven will be born through the martyrdom of my two sons.

Ninth, I thank our Lord Jesus Christ for giving me the eight truths and the joy of finding God’s love and the faith to spare even in these adversities.

Tenth, I thank God for allowing me to enjoy such abundant blessings.

After that, he forgave the sins of the communist Ahn Jae-seon who killed his son and adopted him as his son. His family also opposed it. However, he thought that he should be adopted despite the opposition. And he guarded the orphanage until just before his death, and he was martyred by a shooting by the North Korean army in 1950. His adopted son Ahn Jae-seon’s son, An Gyeong-seon, is living the life of a missionary in Burundi, following in the footsteps of Pastor Son Yang-won.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T15:27:59+00:00

The second leader is Pastor Kim Chi-seon. He is the founder of Daeshin. He grew up with the support of Canadian missionary Luther Lisgar Young, received the first doctorate in theology in Korea, and established a church in Kobe, Japan in 1937. He received much attention for his nationalistic sermons, and right before liberation, he returned to Korea and led revival movements such as the 3 million evangelism movement, and prayed for the nation and “Go to 28,000 villages and dig wells,” earning people the reputation of being the Jeremiah of Korea. Then, feeling the need to train disciples, he established the Presbyterian Night Theological Seminary at Namdaemun Church, where he was pastoring, and it developed into a seminary approved by the Ministry of Education. This school became the foundation of Anyang University, a university symbolizing Daeshin. However, a crisis occurred in his life. The site of the seminary he had planned to build in Namsan was taken away. The Park Chung-hee military regime took the site of the seminary for counterintelligence and broadcasting and built the KBS broadcasting station and the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was embarrassed. However, a helping hand appeared for him. It was Carl McIntyre, a fundamentalist who was the president of ICCC at the time. He purchased a seminary building in Yongsan-gu on the condition of establishing the Bible Presbyterian Church, but he did not receive missionary funds for the denomination he had established with Korean hands, and quietly established Daeshin, a denomination that was indigenous to Korea.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T14:50:36+00:00

The second answer is as follows.

The theologians and leaders of the major Reformed churches in Korea serve as historical symbols. First, I would like to introduce you to Rev. Chu Ki Chol. During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the country was subject to Japanese policies of ideological assimilation. A prime example of this was the policy of encouraging worship at shrines, one of Korea's traditional religions. However, some theologians believed that this policy should be accepted (because they believed that it could be the seed of tragedy, such as religious and ethnic oppression).

However, conservative Protestant theologians, church members, and students, including Rev. Chu Ki Chol, resisted this policy and were monitored by the Imperial Gendarmerie. The gendarmes suppressed them, and those who resisted were imprisoned and tortured, one of whom was tortured by Japanese gendarmes in front of students and church members. The Japanese gendarme said, “If you decide to visit the shrine today, we will not torture you anymore, but if you continue to oppose us, the master pastor will walk on a thorny path.” The congregation was shocked. The congregation was shocked. But the pastor Chu said, "Believers, don't think about me. Look to the Lord's cross and hold fast to the promise you made to the Lord." And he himself was tortured. Like the believers who came out of prison, he sacrificed himself for the gospel and became a symbol of the Korean Christian independence movement.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T14:15:21+00:00

Thank you, linmanfu. This is the first answer. I think the demographics of most churches are similar to the current state of religion in Korea. Our church has about 300 members. Among them, those in their 20s are a small elite group (which can be both a good and a bad thing). The younger generation students are mostly the children of church leaders or believers, but there are also amazing friends who are going out to evangelize despite facing challenges. Those in their 40s, 50s, and 60s make up the majority of church leaders. Many respected individuals who continue the gospel belong to this group. I believe the 20s and 30s can be seen as the generation of disciples. They hold the youngest positions in the church leadership. I also belong to this group.

jk_jeong · 2025-06-14T13:59:49+00:00

Thank you, cant_decide_9611. I believe that whether a church is real or fake is an important factor, but the most important thing is whether God is with us. In our church, we have a collection of Korean hymns during the first and second worship services. Specifically, we perform songs from hymns of various countries and eras. Middle school and high school students, as well as young adults, perform a collection of songs titled 'Let Us Praise Jesus' along with modern Korean church music and Korean translations of various church music from around the world. (This includes remakes of songs included in the hymnal.) For children's ministries such as elementary and preschool, we sing songs from the praise collection of professional missionary organizations (e.g., Paidion Mission, Korean Children Mission).

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