In 1974 South Korea sent out about 20 missionaries, but 40 years later the number grew to over 27,000 in more than 150 countries.
Christianity has spread in South Korea. Only 1 percent of the country’s population was Christians in 1885.
But the revival in Pyongyang in 1907 spread the growth of Christianity in Korea.
The revival meetings of 1907 lasted some 40 years and caused the rise in churches. Imagine a revival that lasts 40 years. Some Christians called it the Jerusalem of the east.
Prayers of repentance went across the Korean Peninsula. People walked hundreds of miles to attend revival meetings. This revival gave away to a prayer and repentance movement that is still being felt in South Korea.
Walking 100 miles to attend a revival meeting when many in America and around the world can’t drive a few miles to attend a revival, because their sports program is on that night.
The church tradition in the Myungsung Church is to go to the church at 5 a.m. to worship and pray before going to work. They just don’t pray once a week, but gather for early morning prayer every day, and has been for nearly 40 years.
The Church holds four-morning services 7 days a week, not just Sunday like most lukewarm churches around the world. The Myungsung Church has planted 24 churches and supports more than 500 missionaries in 63 countries. The church also supports a children’s home, a hospital, and other social ministries.
I think many lukewarm churches around the world need to repent and get on their knees and do what there brothers and sisters in Korea have done. Many churches around the world have become like the church of Laodiceans.
Revelations 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Revelations 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Revelations 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Revelations 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Psalms 80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Psalms 85:7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
Psalms 85:8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Revelations 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
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