Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Thoughts About South Korea
As a Korean American I cannot be indifferent to what is happening in South Korea. Some may criticize me for what am about to write, but Korea is still a country I love and I want to share my concern.
The policies of the current administration seem to be based on three implicit assumptions. Many young people seem to accept these assumptions without thinking about them critically.
The first assumption is that unification is the ultimate good. The second is that the U.S. is responsible for the division of Korea and has been hindering unification. The third is that past ...
New Life Building Committee and the Master Planning for Our Future
For the past several years, Seoul Baptist Church, which is made up of the Korean Speaking Congregation (KSC) and the English Speaking Congregation (ESC aka New Life Fellowship), has been steadily growing both spiritually and numerically. We praise and thank God for this growth and pray that He will continue to grow our church until Christ comes for the second time.
The numerical growth, however, has created some inconvenient situations in the life of our church. For example, New Life had to move the place of our worship from the trailer house to the gym, and we have ...
Your Wife Will Change
Last spring our mission team members and I visited the International Mission Board Headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, I rode in a car with a brother in his early fifties. He told me a sad story about what had happened to him that morning. He shared that as he and his wife entered middle age it was harder for him to win an argument with her. His wife was giving him a ride that morning to church where members were meeting to carpool to the airport. But as they left their house they found heavy rush hour traffic. They decided to take a shortcut but differed in opinion as to ...
I Miss Brother Baek
Many visitors to our Sunday worship services compliment our choir, remarking that they were touched by the music. I usually reply with a smile, "Yes, our choir members may not be musically talented but they are spiritual." Our choir members actually are very musically talented but I try to be modest. But there's actually another motive behind my response. I want to convey the message that the role of the choir is to worship, not just to sing.
Our late brother Baek played a critical role in transforming our choir from a singing group to a worshiping one. As far as church ...
Declining Invitations
This year I've had to decline many speaking invitations. The Korean World Mission Conference, held every four years, asked me to give a seminar on House Churches. I declined and asked Deacon Yoo to lead the seminar in my place. Korean Students Abroad (KOSTA) invited me to be a speaker for the plenary session. I declined because it interfered with the New Life weekly Bible class I was leading.
The most important things for me are my church members, so my ministries at Seoul Baptist are my highest priority. I became a pastor to help church members become genuinely happy. ...
Egotistical Christians?
I received an anonymous letter, which read as follows:
"I recently attended a house church meeting and was flabbergasted at the selfishness of the members. When they prayed, the subject was solely what they might get out of God. They didn't show any concern for society or mankind. The church has changed! It wasn't like that before! They were also irrational, considering everything an answer to their prayers. They were not rational, reasonable people."
This letter made me smile because the writer reminded me of myself 30 years ago when I was not a Christian. He spoke as ...
Looking Forward to Three Strand Prayer Meetings
The greatly anticipated Three Strand Prayer Meetings (TSPM) begin on Wednesday, August 26. It will be accompanied by 10 days of fasting. This is a partial fast, where participants refrain from eating after 5 PM until breakfast the next morning. Fasting will start a day before the first prayer meeting.
During the 10 days of TSPM dinner will not be served at any church events, with the exception of the New Life class on Tuesday, since attendees are mostly non-Christians and few are participating in TSPM. I don't want to force them to fast. But people are encouraged to fast ...