First it is important to create a common list for House church of five VIPs instead of individual list of VIPs. The way to create one is to write down all the names of five persons that each member knows. If there are four members, than the list will be 20 names, and if there are l0 members, then the list will have 50 names. After that, put priority to the persons that need God most in their lives and create a priority list of five persons to create the common House church VIP list. If a person is very happy with his life that he seems to not need God, that person will be on lower priority list. If everyone on the list seems to not need God, we ...

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There have been many incidents and accidents in the past, but there is not another incident like the recent one that pains our hearts more. Even more than just being pained, many are tormented by the helplessness and feeling of being lost and I am just like them. I have lost sleep at night a number of times because of the feeling that there is something I should do, but there is nothing I can do, and do not know what I should do. A nation that prides itself of being the best shipbuilding nation in the world should have more than sufficient knowledge about safety of the ships. Yet, how could this nation allow the modification of a ship without ...

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I think I was at the younger grade in elementary school when the carton movies being shown on TV during early evening hours were very popular. Back then, not every household had a TV, so all the children in the neighborhood used get together at a house with TV to watch together. The main characters loved by the children were “Gold Bat”, “Atom – child of outer space”, “Tiger Mask”, “Bbabby”, etc. I still remember a program called “Ghosts”. There were three good ghosts named “Bam”, “Vera”, and “Vero”. They helped people who were being tormented by other bad ghosts and saved them. Now I think about it, I don’t ...

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The question of what kind of picture we have toward our God influences not only our Christian life, but our total life. God is just and fair, but at the same time He loved us unconditionally to the point of sacrificing His Only Son, and even now is paying attention to me as if I am the only one in the universe. It is very important to have this image of God in our head. I discussed sometime ago in one of my sermons that when I close my eyes and call Him saying ‘God’, whether I see Him coming to me with a wide smile on His face, or with an unhappy face or a fearful face, will determine what is the image of God I hold. Currently, the pastors in ...

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Christianity is a religion where you believe in the living God and experience His accompaniment of us in our life. Christianity is different from believing in an unknown god who is separated from me, but it is where we come to know of God who is inside us and becomes one with us to work in us. We continue to grow with experiencing the presence of God in us and are filled with His Fullness. The power of Christianity comes from His Presence in us. When we feel the presence of God, and when we realize that His Grace is surrounding us, supernatural things happen around us. Characters that could not change begin to change, drinking and smoking habits ...

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In a past column, I discussed the story behind the development of “Hole Life Bible Course”. I felt that I should now discuss the background of why I developed the New Life Bible Course. Before the New Life Bible Course was developed, there was the “Disciples Life Course” between the “Living Life Bible Course” and “Holy Life Bible Course”. But this bible course did not use any public teaching material, and it demanded a high level of QT, and it was not an easy course for new Christians to digest.So I thought that we needed a course where a new Christian can continue the bible studies easily after finishing the Living Life Bible ...

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One of the questions visiting pastors or seminar attendees frequently ask me is about the future plan of our church. The predecessor pastor Young Gi Chai had led the church this way and that way, they ask, and what his successor’s plans? I guess they ask this question because they want to hear something exciting and ambitious such as “we are soon to pursue this and that new plans.” Well, I have been a person without a vision. One time, I was very disturbed with the fact that I, the future successor of Seoul Baptist Church of Houston, had no special vision. So, I asked pastor Young Gi Chai, “Do you think I am truly called by God to become a ...

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