Title: Learn
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This is how you learn.
[Mark 4:3-8]
Sister Ahn In-suk
How much does it cost to sit on the floor and worship? I think I will remember for a long time that I stood in front of you while our church is holding worship services in an old fashioned state for a long time.
I have been going to church since I was young. In my memories of middle and high school, the church played a big role in shaping me so much that I couldn't leave out my student council days at the church. In college, I neglected to attend church, but instead, at school, as a member of the Christian Student Association, I was involved in medical treatment in Muuichon.
I wanted to get married, have children, and raise them in a Christian environment. They grew up in the church like me, going through elementary and secondary school, and now they have become serious Christians as adults, and they are conservative Christians who are rather concerned about our parents who attend Saegil Church.
In that way, over the past few decades, I have been faithfully attending church in my own way. I was a teacher at the church, participated in the choir, and took on the work of the Women’s Missionary Church, the Education Committee, and the Mission Committee. While attending church, I understood doctrines and words that I did not understand. 'Religion is essentially a dogma. If you go into it, that is, if you have faith, there will be no conflict. So it's a matter of belief'. I wasn't allowed to be conscious, so I tried to rationalize it somehow.
However, while living in Korea and America, I felt the cultural difference between the church in Korea and the Korean church in America, even though they were the same Protestant or Korean church. Also within the United States, there are cultural differences between Korean churches and churches of different races. Incidentally, would it have been said that Sunday is the day when racial division is most prominent in the United States? Looking at these cultural differences, seeing that religion can be affected by geographical limitations, I realized that my Christian belief may not be the whole of Christianity, and that it may vary depending on ethnicity, race, or era as well as geographical conditions. I started thinking. In other words, seeing that the way to interpret or practice the same Bible is not independent of the culture of the society in which a church is located, I began to vaguely feel that the differences between religions are also under these geographical, social, and historical influences.
When I came to Korea, the church culture that I had been accustomed to since I was young has also changed. It can be said that it is natural for the church to change as society changes. Most of them have been polished and refined. Many churches that have grown quantitatively can no longer feel the intimacy of a family.
At Saegil Church, I learned a lot. The first thing I want to say is, every spring