Chuncheon, South Korea \u2013 U.K. Anabaptist leader Stuart Murray explored the basics of Anabaptist theology, history and ministry with Mennonites in South Korea during a country-wide speaking tour 20 April-3 May.<\/p>\n
During his visit Murray \u2013 author of the popular book The Naked Anabaptist (Herald Press, 2010) \u2013 engaged in conversation with Anabaptist leaders about ministry in a postmodern age.<\/p>\n
\u201cStuart\u2019s lessons had a great impact,\u201d said Kyong-Jung Kim, director of the Korea Anabaptist Center and the Mennonite World Conference General Council member from Jesus Village Church, an MWC associate member-church. \u201cEveryone walked away with something of value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n For Kim, lessons about how the church can approach a post-Christendom era were important. \u201cEven though Korea was never influenced by Christendom,\u201d he said, \u201cit was Christendom-influenced Christianity that western missionaries brought to Korea about 200 years ago.\u201d The theologies of both the Catholic and Protestant churches in Korea were developed under the auspices of Christendom, which differs from the Anabaptist free, peace church tradition, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cNo wonder it has been so difficult for Korean churches to adapt a different understanding of theology and practices from an Anabaptist perspective,\u201d Kim noted. \u201cStuart Murray\u2019s insights and teachings helped us to find different approaches to understand what it means to be a church and how to live out accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n Mennonite Church Canada \u2013 an MWC member-church \u2013 cooperated in bringing Murray to South Korea for the speaking tour.<\/p>\n Adapted from a Mennonite Church Canada news release by Deborah Froese<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chuncheon, South Korea \u2013 U.K. Anabaptist leader Stuart Murray explored the basics of Anabaptist theology, history and ministry with Mennonites in South Korea during a country-wide speaking tour 20 April-3 May. During his visit Murray \u2013 author of the popular book The Naked Anabaptist (Herald Press, 2010) \u2013 engaged in conversation with Anabaptist leaders about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"network":[],"eventcategory":[],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n