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“The place the Lord has called me to is a lowly place!!”
He called us to a place of respect, a place where we can be respected as one created in the image of God.
A call to the smallest and most vulnerable, the poor and the marginalized
A message of God's mercy and compassion from Pastor Kim Gwan-seong of Low Dam Church
He called us to a place of respect, a place where we can be respected as one created in the image of God.
A call to the smallest and most vulnerable, the poor and the marginalized
A message of God's mercy and compassion from Pastor Kim Gwan-seong of Low Dam Church
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prolog
Chapter 1: A Country in Illusion
Chapter 2: Loss of Humanity
Chapter 3 God's Chamber
Chapter 4: Soul-Destructive Worship and Prayer
Chapter 5 Mishpat and Tzadeqah
Chapter 6 The God I Created
Chapter 7: Boasting of Vanity
Chapter 8: Slaves to Earn a Bread
Chapter 9 Adults and Young People
Chapter 10 David's Tabernacle
prolog
Chapter 1: A Country in Illusion
Chapter 2: Loss of Humanity
Chapter 3 God's Chamber
Chapter 4: Soul-Destructive Worship and Prayer
Chapter 5 Mishpat and Tzadeqah
Chapter 6 The God I Created
Chapter 7: Boasting of Vanity
Chapter 8: Slaves to Earn a Bread
Chapter 9 Adults and Young People
Chapter 10 David's Tabernacle
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Into the book
Sending out God's love
We must live a life of true gospel!
Do you know why I still live as a pastor proclaiming God's word? It's because of the grace God has bestowed upon my life.
Through my hometown church, I received unconditional love and learned that the poor and marginalized deserve equal treatment without reason, and that all people deserve the respect they deserve.
Seeing the adults in the church, I too decided to live for others.
I resolved never to treat people according to the world's values and standards, and to become a pastor who would clearly demonstrate to the world the beauty and awesomeness of those who have God as their Father.
Perhaps the direction of my ministry and the church was already formed in my heart during my childhood.
Ultimately, the gospel is revealed and spread through life.
---From the text
What is piety? Is it prayer? Is it discipleship? Is it Bible study? Is it worship? Is it giving a lot of offerings? No.
Caring for orphans and widows in distress is central to godliness.
But if we throw this away and do something else well, we will fail.
--- p.40
Amos is not denouncing what is happening in Israel today as a social injustice and wrong.
During the reign of Jeroboam II, a time of abundance, wealth, and lack, ironically, something happened in God's land that completely devalued the value of human beings, who were created in the image of God.
How else can we love and serve God without restoring this?
--- p.47
As we serve the Lord, just as the Lord continues to forgive, embrace, and embrace us, who are sinful, wicked, and sinful, let us also embrace with our lives, with our faith, the poor, pitiful, helpless, and poor people in this community who continue to do absurd things.
Let us not forget that this is the voice of God that the prophet Amos is sending to us.
--- p.73
It is the same for us, the people of the New Testament.
The presence of God is the atoning blood of Jesus Christ covering the place where we confess and repent of our shortcomings and sins.
The blood of Jesus covers all our sins and failures.
So, I hope you will break free from the illusion that God is present in artificial and extravagant religious events, in special buildings, or in sophisticated productions.
--- p.88
Coming to Bethel with tears, devotion, offerings, and promises of devotion, without caring for our neighbors who cannot protect themselves, is not worship, but a heinous sin of trying to manipulate God and move Him according to our own desires and will. This is the warning message that the prophet Amos sends us.
--- p.116
What tangible fruit will emerge in our lives from the worship we offer to God throughout our lives? Will we see the fruit of embracing and serving someone more humble, poorer, more suffering, and with more tears and sighs than ourselves, using every means possible? If not, we are those who spend our lives using worship as a means to satisfy our own selfish desires.
I wish for the dark eyes of our souls to open.
--- p.119
“Seek me,” he says, “but you will not find me by offering sacrifices.”
He declares that you will never meet me in that place, through those sacrifices, through those worship services, through those religious practices.
This is a very significant statement.
Worship itself is not God.
Rather, the point is that the fervent religiosity that dominates our hearts can hinder us from seeking God and encountering Him personally.
--- p.128
The culmination of God's harsh judgment is that he leaves them in a state of spiritual famine.
The people who fell into sin and suffered national disasters wandered from sea to sea, from north to east, seeking the path of repentance and turning back through God's word, but they never found it.
This is the most terrifying judgment that God brings upon the people of Israel.
We must live a life of true gospel!
Do you know why I still live as a pastor proclaiming God's word? It's because of the grace God has bestowed upon my life.
Through my hometown church, I received unconditional love and learned that the poor and marginalized deserve equal treatment without reason, and that all people deserve the respect they deserve.
Seeing the adults in the church, I too decided to live for others.
I resolved never to treat people according to the world's values and standards, and to become a pastor who would clearly demonstrate to the world the beauty and awesomeness of those who have God as their Father.
Perhaps the direction of my ministry and the church was already formed in my heart during my childhood.
Ultimately, the gospel is revealed and spread through life.
---From the text
What is piety? Is it prayer? Is it discipleship? Is it Bible study? Is it worship? Is it giving a lot of offerings? No.
Caring for orphans and widows in distress is central to godliness.
But if we throw this away and do something else well, we will fail.
--- p.40
Amos is not denouncing what is happening in Israel today as a social injustice and wrong.
During the reign of Jeroboam II, a time of abundance, wealth, and lack, ironically, something happened in God's land that completely devalued the value of human beings, who were created in the image of God.
How else can we love and serve God without restoring this?
--- p.47
As we serve the Lord, just as the Lord continues to forgive, embrace, and embrace us, who are sinful, wicked, and sinful, let us also embrace with our lives, with our faith, the poor, pitiful, helpless, and poor people in this community who continue to do absurd things.
Let us not forget that this is the voice of God that the prophet Amos is sending to us.
--- p.73
It is the same for us, the people of the New Testament.
The presence of God is the atoning blood of Jesus Christ covering the place where we confess and repent of our shortcomings and sins.
The blood of Jesus covers all our sins and failures.
So, I hope you will break free from the illusion that God is present in artificial and extravagant religious events, in special buildings, or in sophisticated productions.
--- p.88
Coming to Bethel with tears, devotion, offerings, and promises of devotion, without caring for our neighbors who cannot protect themselves, is not worship, but a heinous sin of trying to manipulate God and move Him according to our own desires and will. This is the warning message that the prophet Amos sends us.
--- p.116
What tangible fruit will emerge in our lives from the worship we offer to God throughout our lives? Will we see the fruit of embracing and serving someone more humble, poorer, more suffering, and with more tears and sighs than ourselves, using every means possible? If not, we are those who spend our lives using worship as a means to satisfy our own selfish desires.
I wish for the dark eyes of our souls to open.
--- p.119
“Seek me,” he says, “but you will not find me by offering sacrifices.”
He declares that you will never meet me in that place, through those sacrifices, through those worship services, through those religious practices.
This is a very significant statement.
Worship itself is not God.
Rather, the point is that the fervent religiosity that dominates our hearts can hinder us from seeking God and encountering Him personally.
--- p.128
The culmination of God's harsh judgment is that he leaves them in a state of spiritual famine.
The people who fell into sin and suffered national disasters wandered from sea to sea, from north to east, seeking the path of repentance and turning back through God's word, but they never found it.
This is the most terrifying judgment that God brings upon the people of Israel.
--- p.226
Publisher's Review
The place where the Lord calls us is a lowly place.
As the saying goes, “Desire pursues an upward life, while calling pursues a downward life,” the author chose to humble himself in accordance with the calling given by the Lord.
With the belief that “the church must give birth to other churches,” he left his stable pastoral position and once again embarked on the path of pioneering.
This book is a compilation of sermon manuscripts from the Book of Amos given at Haengshin Baptist Church before I resigned from the church.
Through the Book of Amos, the author criticizes our individualistic faith, which, like the Northern Israel, is immersed in self and desire; our religious addiction, which deludes us into believing we have received salvation and blessings despite being a formalistic faith that only engages in religious activities within the church; and our flawed faith, which despises and exploits people created in the image of God, thereby distorting God's justice.
If you want to ponder the church in the gap between our confessions of faith and our lives and ponder together the essence of our faith, I encourage you to read this book.
As the saying goes, “Desire pursues an upward life, while calling pursues a downward life,” the author chose to humble himself in accordance with the calling given by the Lord.
With the belief that “the church must give birth to other churches,” he left his stable pastoral position and once again embarked on the path of pioneering.
This book is a compilation of sermon manuscripts from the Book of Amos given at Haengshin Baptist Church before I resigned from the church.
Through the Book of Amos, the author criticizes our individualistic faith, which, like the Northern Israel, is immersed in self and desire; our religious addiction, which deludes us into believing we have received salvation and blessings despite being a formalistic faith that only engages in religious activities within the church; and our flawed faith, which despises and exploits people created in the image of God, thereby distorting God's justice.
If you want to ponder the church in the gap between our confessions of faith and our lives and ponder together the essence of our faith, I encourage you to read this book.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: April 30, 2024
- Page count, weight, size: 256 pages | 138*210*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791165045241
- ISBN10: 1165045249
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