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ÅëÇؼ »ó±âÇؾßÇÒ Á¡Àº ÁÖ´ÔÀÌ Áö½Å ½ÊÀÚ°¡»Ó¸¸ ¾Æ´Ï¶ó, ¿ì¸® ÀÚ½ÅÀÇ ¡®½ÊÀÚ°¡Áö±â¡¯µµ Çϳª´ÔÀÇ ´É·Â°ú ÁöÇý°¡ µÈ´Ù´Â Á¡ÀÌ´Ù. ¡°½ÊÀÚ°¡ÀÇ µµ°¡
¸ê¸ÁÇÏ´Â Àڵ鿡°Ô´Â ¹Ì·ÃÇÑ °ÍÀÌ¿ä, ±¸¿øÀ» ¹Þ´Â ¿ì¸®¿¡°Ô´Â Çϳª´ÔÀÇ ´É·ÂÀÌ´Ù.¡± We lean
on the cross that Jesus took up. Likewise, we lean on the cross which someone
took up. That someone may be our parents or relatives, may be our ministers or
church members or may be our predecessors or the unknown. It's not by our own
ability or talent that we stay on. Therefore we are not all alone. It's the very
same with the small and humble Korean Christian Churches. What we have been up
to these days is because there have been numbers of predecessors who completed
the task the Lord Jesus had given them with their work of faith and labor of
love and steadfastness of hope. The difficulties such as perspiration, teardrop,
hunger and loneliness that our predecessors suffered from hardened after each
layer and made layers until they became the stone of hope on which we could
stand.
I opened
Christian Church Cyber Studies in March 1999. I didn't know much about the
history of the Korean Christian Churches and Churches of Christ at that time.
But now after the study for 16 consecutive years on that particular subject I
became the man who knows better than others. I could not but help often beaming
with a smile or shedding tears over the sacrificial lives of our predecessors or
sometimes grieving or feeling sorry over the misfortunes of the Korean Christian
Churches. I endeavored to search out the resources and materials of the Korean
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ and edited them to publish at our
Christian Church Cyber Studies. And my health often worsened due to extreme
fatigue and exhaustion. But I believe that in doing so; someday we will see a
man like a Korean Alexander Campbell that our Lord God will raise up for us. He
may appear after the manner of the story of "The Great Stone Face" by Nathaniel
Hawthorne. As we lean on the
cross that Jesus took up, what we must remember as we partake in the Lord's
Supper is that our cross-bearing as well as the cross that our Lord took up
becomes God's power and wisdom that save men. "For the message of the cross is foolishness to
those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God"
(1Cor. 1:18).
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