GKYM Notes Day 1

Hey, so... these are my notes from the first full day of the GKYM conference/festival.
Being... half-asian and not entirely awesome at Korean... I may have missed some things here and there... (not to mention I was very very tired...)
These are the notes that I got down...
Chea.
Public for anyone... but my notes... and my own ideas in response...
I hope that, in sharing these... God's message and will may be done, and that, whoever does read this, may somehow be blessed.
Take yo bible out nd read. =]
gly.

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Sermon 1
(I didn't get much... it was in Korean and the translation came at a slow-ish pace >< hahaha oh my...)
Diaspora --> Koreans, we were conqured that we would be spread. Korea was a closed nation until we were invaded. If we weren't invaded, we would have never be spread across the world, to where we are now.
Psalm 126.
1st Peter.
God is permissive, and has a perfect plan. If he didn't let Japan invade, we wouldn't be in these positions to preach the gospel.

Sermon 2
1 Cor 15:10
Luke 9:23-25
How, as Korean Americans, are we involved in missions? Why are we here exactly?
Like in the movie, the terminal, we are somewhere in between, neither Korean nor American.

1. Who are you?
We are third culture kids/Missionary Kids (not same, but similar). We are Global Nomads, moving around from country to country. There is always a mix of cultures.
These mix of cultures can be Kor + Am = KoreanAmerican, and then we can add anything else... but it tends to be another Asian culture, thus creating a common "Third culture"
Being TCK we can even get "reverse-culture shock" when we go back to our respective countries.
Paul.
He was a Jew, but also had Roman citizenship.
BUT. Our primary identity is in God --> 1 Cor 15:10
Our secondary identity, is for use in our primary identity.
Our Spiritual identity (Romans 7:15) is in conflict because we are living with the past identity of a sinner and the new identity of a saint. There is a conflict here of cultures.
However, just like we, as TCK's have a common third culture.
So fight! God is in us. This is our common Spiritual Third Culture.

2. Love Your People
Paul, loves Jesus (Yay!), loves his people even though he has been called to mission.
Grace is power + love. We serve out of/in response to this grace.
Romans 9:3 --> Paul wanted to die for his race. He truly loved them.
In order to love ANYONE, we need to be like Jesus.
Deny ourselves, and carry the Cross. Luke 9:23.
We can get stuck in unhappy cycles, but for a happy cycle, we need to repent, carry the cross, and love.
"Everything means nothing if I ain't got you."
"Lord" --> Glory (God's Grace, infusion of this into us, then love) --> We can then find happiness in heaven.

3. Love others
Paul loves his G's (?), he diversely loves. Romans 12:4-5.
Why grow? Why do we need many people?
We need to grow deep and wide cause of Christ and for the Glory of God so more and more people can come to see and know Christ.
There was an Emperor who asked the best artist in the land to draw him a Bird.
Three years went by, and no picture arrived. So the emperor went to the artist and asked him where his picture was.
The artist then drew the picture in 10 minutes.
He then showed the emperor all of his practice pictures.
We need to be able to draw Jesus, and paint him to show other people.

4. Missions
Pauls God is a great missionary God.
John 13:34-35, 1 John 3:16
Here, we need to have our Faith Locally,
There, we need to serve Globally.
We need that fire in our hearts.

Sermon 3
What is Mission? Acts 2:8
It's throwing away what we know. Like breaking the perfume Jar like the woman.
It sounds hard, but it is very easy. And even though it is easy, not everyone can do it.
Missionary vs. Mission Worker
What is the Holy Spirit? --> Well, if you don't have it, you boast and speak more than acting. (So act.)
Are miracles just good things happening? --> In God's work, bad things can happen too.
God is waiting for us, but Satan is holding us back.
Blessings? Deuteronomy 21:28
Don't ain to be the best, it's unstable up there. God seeks to make us Good.
We have nothing without God, we need to humble ourselves.
The Disciples were a bunch of misfits...

Good - God = 0, zero, nothing.
O + God = Good! and, "Oh God!" --> we can now be a missionary.
We must be thankful.
We need to scatter the seeds and be adaptable. Let the seeds grow, leave it alone till the harvest, make sure it is growing well.
Let us be like the staff of Moses, it is a staff of nothing. But it holds so much power.

Workshop 1
4 Points of the New (2nd Generation) Direction of the Church.
Our Secondary Identity for the Pimary Identity --> We need to get involved in the church and really BELONG. This church... should care if you die. And should discipline you as well, and be involved.

1. Strategic --> The Biblical Church, Matthrew 28:19-20
19 --> Baptize them, make them Christian, involve them in the local church.
20 --> As they are plugged in, teach and mentor them, help them become like JC, and then they will, in turn, Mission.
19 --> Evangelism, Planting, Justification, Birth
20 --> Discipleship, teaching, sanctification, glorification, growth.

2. Past 1st Generation Koreans (Super Immigrants)
We need to be thankful, they worked so hard and sacrificed so much for us. They solidified what's important.

3. Present Trends and Models --> The Youth doesn't stay at church, look at EM's. There is an inevitable separation here.
The church is becoming a Pan-Asian Church. There is Comraderie amongst TCKs.
We need to appreciate the differences within the multi-ethnic church.
In an Anglo/Mega Church, are we attending or belonging?
We need to become strategically involved. Where do I go? What church to I belong to? We need to have a ministry fire. Ephesians 5:6

4. Future
Which ministry?
The Gap between Generations is getting smaller. Here, we need to be involved, there we need to explore the world. We need to pray for the un-knowers.
College years are so important that we get a church-centered life.

Sermon 4
What the Gospel REALLY is.
It's lifestyle change.
Matthew 24:14, 2 Timothy 3
We do easy-believeing, but this is WRONG.
Where is the power? Timothy says to PREACH THE WORD!!!
"Come follow me" This is very hard.
Luke Ch. 9:23, we need to deny ourselves.
Take up our crosses, this is hard, because the crucifixtion was for capital punishment. Killed, publically, seen by all.
We need to die every single day.
It's not like, adding Jesus to our sinful lives, but trading ours for his.
We leave ours behind and take his.
We haven't had that conversion experience, so we deny God's power.
Let's kill ourselves on a daily basis.
1 Cor 2, Religion vs. Christianity

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This is the part where I decided, to re-give my life to God.
I had some doubts in my heart as, so I went up just to be sure.

It was a very intense day...

I think the main thing I got out of it was... humbling ourselves.
We serve a greater purpose...

Live daily with a missional thinking...

Hrm.

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