Dr david yonggi cho ministries of bangladesh
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A ‘Time to Share Love’: Global Pentecostalism and the Social Ministry of David Yonggi Cho
Journal of Pentecostal Theology 21 () – A ‘Time to Share Love’: Global Pentecostalism and the Social Ministry of David Yonggi Cho Allan Anderson* University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK on@ Abstract This paper considers the response of Pentecostals globally to matters of social concern, particularly as found in the teaching and ministry of Dr David Yonggi Cho and the church he founded, Yoido Full Gospel Church. Global Pentecostalism has through its message the potential to engage in social transformation, and Cho’s ministry with its work among the poor, the leadership of women, and its theology of sacriijicial love is an example of that potential. Keywords Pentecostalism, social theology, social transformation, contextualization, Yonggi Cho, Yoido Full Gospel Church Global Pentecostalism and Social Transformation The subject of ‘social theology’ is not one that sits easily with Pentecostals. Pentecostals have not always felt comfortable with relating to wider society, but this is something that is gradually changing. For many years, Pentecostals in the North Atlantic region have struggled with issues of social involvement as opposed to ‘pure’ evangelism and have considered these
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Worldwide Cell Church Movement
by Joel Comiskey
This chapter is taken from Comiskey&#;s book &#; Years of Small Groups.&#;(endnotes included in ebook or print book).
On a Sunday evening in the summer of , Yonggi Cho, a young Korean pastor, collapsed on the platform of his church. The then twenty-seven years old Cho had reached a point of utter physical exhaustion.
Earlier in the day he had preached at the morning services and then baptized three hundred new converts. After picking up an American evangelist from the airport, he was interpreting for him in the evening service when his breakdown occurred. His church had grown from four to two thousand four hundred members. Although assisted by his mother-in-law, Jashil Choi, and missionary John Hurston, Cho had shouldered an almost impossible ministry burden at the growing church. He had preached at the two Sunday morning services, mid-week services, and attended daily early morning prayer meetings. He also took it upon himself to counsel and perform all weddings and funerals. Crumpled on the stage that summer evening, he whispered to Hurston, “John, I’m dying.”
Cho felt God had called him to grow the largest church in the world, yet he attempted to do this in his own strength. After being rushed to the hospital and examin
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