{"id":70968,"date":"2018-05-08T16:14:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70968"},"modified":"2018-05-08T19:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T23:06:43","slug":"je-esther-chung-what-american-christians-can-learn-from-the-global-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70968","title":{"rendered":"(JE) Esther Chung&#8211;What American Christians Can Learn From the Global Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians all around the world create the body of the Church. Each has a different role and can build and challenge each other to further expand God\u2019s kingdom. In a recent panel discussion hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SojournersMagazine\/videos\/10155543630277794\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Sojourners<\/span><\/a>, speakers considered what American Christianity can learn from the global Church.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists included Pastor Hana Kim, lead pastor of Myungsung Presbyterian Church in Seoul, South Korea, a megachurch with over 100,000 attendees, Jim Wallis, liberal activist and president of Sojourners,\u00a0Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, author of\u00a0<i>Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century<\/i>, Casely Essamuah, Secretary of the Global Christian Forum, and Adelle Banks, a national correspondent at Religion News Service.<\/p>\n<p>Most interestingly, Kim shared that \u201cwe don\u2019t really think that we can teach the western church about anything. If you can learn from us that would be great, but I\u2019m not here to teach anything. We\u2019re just doing our job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cLots of times we do wrong,\u201d Kim shared. \u201cOne of the things that we do well is to bring people to church.\u201d Kim explained the success to this phenomena is that \u201cfor people at MyungSung, going to church is not just a Sunday thing. But it\u2019s a daily life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2018\/05\/07\/what-american-christians-can-learn-from-the-global-church\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians all around the world create the body of the Church. Each has a different role and can build and challenge each other to further expand God\u2019s kingdom. In a recent panel discussion hosted by\u00a0Sojourners, speakers considered what American Christianity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70968\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,119,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70970,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70968\/revisions\/70970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}