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Back when I wrote my foreword at that blessed day, 02/02/2020, I did not go into the detail as to why I zeal for the Kingdom of God.
Around the twentieth year of my life, I came to a realization of sorts: there was not much I had yet done for the Kingdom of God.
What shall I say at that Judgment Day, when God asks me, "What works have you done?"
Therefore did I, and still do I, haste to do something, to have somewhat of an excuse to make on that day.
We Koreans have a short yet glorious history of Christianity. Despite our shortcomings and past idolatry, we strive to become a people of God. There are not yet much record of our Christian history translated into the English language, but the number of faceless and nameless workers out there bringing them to light was more than what I initially expected. I cannot let them beat me to the punch. I must labor also, to be able to grab onto that glorious crown in that last day.
My pen is but beggarly, failing to reach the apex beauty of either the Korean nor English tongue, but I hope to make up for it with much volume.
In the two-thousand-and-twenty-fourth year of the Majesty of Jesus Christ, on the second month, on the twenty-fourth day,
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Date of Publication: 2017-08-16 11:10 PM PDT
If told to name the most famous evangelist of faith in the history of Korean Christianity, many will name Rev. Choi Buhng-Seouk (Gwun-Neung).1 "Jesus = Heaven!" -- this cry heard unchangingly from the break of daylight was a cry shining forth as Rev. Choi's watchword. Choi Gwun-Neung, who began to believe in our Lord Jesus at age 33, and who became a reverend at age 45, had little interest in theology even when attending theology seminaries, and failed thrice in his attempts to graduate from the Pyongyang Theological Seminary. He was a man who completely disregarded secular success or honor. He only pierced through the soul, and wished to proclaim directly unto the spirit-souls. He considered works unrelated to proclaiming and raising-churches to be of same worth as tattered footwear. He proclaimed for twenty-seven years, and it is told that he raised up fifty churches in Manchuria over the span of twelve years, and thirty churches in our homeland2 over the span of fifteen years, altogether around eighty churches.
1 Gwun-Neung (권능) in Korean approximately means 'Authoritative-Power'.
2 Korean Peninsula
Around the time of Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung's birth, that is, around the times of the people during the late Joseon era, the lives of the masses were of extreme destitution, and officials of the government were corrupt to no end. Unable to endure any longer the tyranny of the provincial officials, the masses rose up in revolt across multiple parts of the country. When Donghak Rebellion began in 1894, Choi Buhng-Seouk (for that was his name prior to him beginning to believe in Lord Jesus) was twenty-four. Meanwhile, the number of Christians, which was merely only one during 1876, increased to forty-four thousand 30 years later at 1906, and increased to hundred-and-ten thousand at 1910. Choi Buhng-Seouk's father, Choi Sahng-Lhinn, served as the District Officer of Gangdong District; that is to say, it was a position akin to the Head of Tax Revenue Affairs. At that time, the youth Choi Buhng-Seouk served in a position akin to a secretary for the Pyongyang Auditor Min Young-Hui.
But one day an argument occurred between his father and a Magistrate. The Magistrate was of yangban status, but the position of District Officer was of petty sort.
"Can ye? Or can ye not??"
"I cannot."
"Why, you--"
The Magistrate, wroth, made a motion to strike the father of Choi Buhng-Seouk, but at that moment Choi Buhng-Seouk rushed forth and began to beat the Magistrate. He stomped on him with his dust-covered feet. Due to his actions, he was cast out unto Sakju Province five-hundred ri's away. Buhng-Seouk walked all the way to Sakju Province, the entire distance of five-hundred ri's, with swollen feet. Across the river were the Chinese.
The year Choi Buhng-Seouk arrived to Sakju-eup was the year 1900. At that time there already was a church in Sakju-eup. That year was the fourth year since the establishment of that Sakju Church. Residing there was a community leader named Baek Yoo-Gehh (白留溪), the founder-apparent of the Sakju Church. Baek Yoo-Gehh was a physician of traditional medicine. He evangelized those who came to him to have their sicknesses be cured, and it led to the establishment of that church in 1896. The one who evangelized Baek Yoo-Gehh was the son of Baek's father's sister, Yang Juhn-Baek. Yang Juhn-Baek was a young convert of age 24, whose years of faith were only three, beginning from when he received baptism from the man named MaPoSamYeul (馬布三悅, Samuel Austin Moffett) in 1895.
His evangelizing of his elder cousin of his mother's side led to the establishment of the Sakju-eup Church. This fact is clearly recorded in The History of the Chosen Presbyterian Church under year 1896. It is told that Baek Yoo-Gehh, after having been evangelized by Yang Juhn-Baek, amassed great quantity of writings for evangelical purposes. And he proclaimed unto his neighbors, and many men and women began to believe. In the year after that, which was 1897, he purchased a seven-unit tile-roofed building, and purchased also a six-unit straw-thatched building, and that became a church.
Rev. Moffet resided at Seoul for around two years, and afterwards at 1893 he came to Pyongyang and established himself at the DaeDong Riverside, where earlier in 1866 Rev. Robert Jermain Thomas was matyred at age 26. From there, not only unto the Sakju Province of five-hundred ri's, but also unto KangGye of seven-hundred ri's, or ManPo-jin of eight-hundred ri's, he traversed every nook and cranny; if it was a village habited by men, he visited, evangelizing. He raised many schools, and taught there the same.
And not only did he establish the Pyongyang Theological Seminary, but in 1901 he established also the SoongSil University. He also served as the Head of the Presbyterian General Assembly of Korea, and in 1930 the 40th anniversary since the beginning of his ministry was held. In 1939, the year when Pyongyang Theological Seminary was forced to close due to the problem of shinto shrine worship, he returned to his native country the United States, and there departed from this world. In 1907, the Pyongyang Theological Seminary for their first year of graduation had graduates of seven students. Among those seven students were the Rev. Gil Seon-Ju and Rev. Yang Juhn-Baek. Among them also was the Rev. Seuh Gyeong-Jo, who in his teenage years witnessed the martyrdom of Rev. Thomas.
Choi Buhng-Seouk had to spend dull and wearisome days during his stay at Sakju. At times he vacantly gazed upon GeoMun Mountain; at times he gazed upon the AmRok River. Though there was church at Sakju, in his mind Choi Buhng-Seouk felt that those men who roamed to and fro with the Bible in their arms claiming to believe in Jesus were in some ways different from who he himself was.
One day, in 1902, Baek Yoo-Gehh visited Choi Buhng-Seouk's house; he wished to drop by and say his greetings, before he went on his way to prepare some medicine while the birth of his second son was drawing near. Baek Yoo-Gehh explained to Choi Buhng-Seouk as to why he had to believe in Lord Jesus, and evangelized him.
Choi Buhng-Seouk was deeply touched by this Love, this Love which cared for his personal welfare, he, someone thousand miles from his own home. "Is Jesus the One Whom anyone can believe in?" In Choi Buhng-Seouk's mind, he doubted as to whether someone as refractory as him could become a believer.
"God seeks men with mettle such as yours. In this North PyongAn region of ours, for the sake of our entire homeland, we recently established an Evangelistic Assembly. My cousin by paternal aunt, Yang Juhn-Baek, became its sponsor. Therefore, as an evangelist, and, going a step further, as a pastor, receive this new destiny of yours, and let us labor in zeal together."
Hence, he received a Bible, (albeit a partial one), and he read up on it, and via the introduction from Baek Yoo-Gehh, he formally introduced himself unto the believers at Sakju Church. That was 1902, the year when he became thirty-three. From 1903 the revival of Joseon Church was on full wave, and in 1906 the number of congregation members reached forty-thousand.
In 1902, around the time when Choi Buhng-Seouk received baptism, Uiju county was probably the place which received the Gospel the most. The ones who were the first of all Korea to believe, such as Baek Hong-Joon and Yi Eung-Chan, were all Uiju youths. And Baek Hong-Joon became the first evangelist of all Korea. Not only that, but the first founder of the Korean Church, Seuh Sang-Rheun, was a man from SinUiju. And one of the first seven pastors of all Korea, Rev. Yang Juhn-Baek, was a man from Uiju. Around this time, Choi Buhng-Seouk became a baptized member of the congregation.
Sakju, where he spent his days in exile, became a place of grace unto him, a place where the Gospel sprouted. It might very well have been that in his lonesome days in exile he began to realize little by little his lot as a pilgrim in midst of life.3 The One who transforms a land of darkness into a land of light is the Lord Only.
Choi Buhng-Seouk, as a man who did everything in zeal the moment he began a task, began to believe in all his earnest. First he came to know vaguely as to what Christianity was, and later on his faith grew strong. When he began to become educated in 1903 in his thirty-fourth year of age, he received education along with his wife. And in that same year he received his baptism.
We, the Nation of BaeDal4, is a nation with love. With children, neighbors, friends, ruler, love, and more. But even this love is nothing if it is not the Love of our Lord, the Eternal Love, the Love that becomes Light. These youths who have found this True Love and Light clenched their two fists and began to display high spirits; as it is said, ferocious tigers come from the woods.
Rev. Moffett proclaimed the Gospel to Yang Juhn-Baek; Yang Juhn-Baek, to Baek Yoo-Gehh; and now, Baek Yoo-Gehh proclaimed the Gospel unto Choi Buhng-Seouk. In latter days Professor Pak Hyŏng-Nyong (朴亨龍), from age seven to fourteen grew up in Byeok-Dong Church, until the Evangelist Choi Buhng-Seouk became the Rev. Choi Buhng-Seouk, and from him Pak received education. And then did Rev. Choi Buhng-Seouk head to Manchuria.
3 1 Peter 2:11-12; Matthew 25:14-30
4 That is, the Korean people
A man that went mad for Lord Jesus. What an appellation to be boasted of; what a crown!! Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung burned with love of Lord Jesus. If he had life in his own limbs, he considered it to be a sign of the love Lord Jesus had toward him. He determined to die for Lord Jesus, and to live for Lord Jesus, to be in One with Him to the point of unconsciousness.
Truly was he all for Lord Jesus, he, the evangelist who knew well that great joy which faith brings. He did not zeal to gain knowledge; if only he could be a loudhailer who proclaimed about Lord Jesus, that was good enough for him. He was content with being a device which proclaimed about Jesus. To become a life that proclaimed salvation, he placed down his entire life, and became an unyielding evangelist. That breath of life granted unto him by God, along with that fresh air of early dawn; he desired to repay such debt with evangelism.
The fire of revival first fell on Won Mountain, in 1903. 'Faith of Christ', 'Dwell within the Lord', 'Holy Spirit of the Pentecost' became the substance of their sermons always. In 1904 the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and when Japan emerged as victor, the South Manchuria Railway fell into their hands. Joseon became the protectorate of Japan. In 1905 Choi Gwun-Neung succeeded Baek Yoo-Gehh to become the leader of the Sakju Church. Choi Gwun-Neung, as colporteur-preacher, went even into Machuria, and witnessed the news of Japanese persecution against the churches. He distributed written works, and evangelized.
Soon, he came to the conclusion that he must utilize his voice and intonation in order to cripple the devil. He came to the conclusion that he was duty-bound to not let a single person walk by without telling them to "Believe in Jesus!". His love which burned unto Lord Jesus began to spread unto those dying spirit-souls. Though his entire body be burnt, proclaiming Lord Jesus was his work, his life in entirety. The Flower of Gospel that bloomed forth from barren life of exile began to transform this single spirit-soul into a labourer of evangelism.
Rev. Choi also evangelized a Japanese Colonel. In the eyes of Evangelist Pastor Choi Gwun-Neung he knew that there was only Lord Jesus, and no discrimination of nations. The Colonel was approaching on horseback, in dignity, along with his entourage. Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung considered that Officer of Japanese Army to be a mere man, and nothing more. And he also recalled in his mind that one Centurion who was praised by the Lord for his strong faith. Prevail in the Russo-Japanese War, did you? Consider us Joseon men in disdain, to be uncultivated nation of a protectorate country?
It was that moment when that Colonel on his horseback was riding past Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung. "Jesus = Heaven!!", Rev. Choi roared. The horse jumped in terror, and the Colonel fell and fainted beneath the horse. The Japanese soldiers, having seen Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung thundering at the Colonel, and unable to comprehend his words, rushed at him and pointed their guns toward him.
"I will pray for him; he will live."
The soldiers did not understand his words. Then, a man came running by and began to interpret for him. Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung prayed in zeal, and the Colonel woke up.
Afterwards, the Japanese officials attached a sign of warning at the spot where the Colonel fell from his horse. "Choi Buhng-Seouk! If this happens again, you will be tried and convicted immediately."
But Rev. Choi went back to that spot and tore out that letter of warning from the wall and took it, and showed it to his wife back at his home. "Honey, behold! The crown is now studded with stars."
If that Colonel receives salvation by his proclaiming, "Jesus = Heaven", the crown will be God's, and upon that crown will be stars because of the persecution he received for his evangelism.
Then, his wife, who was lying without strength, groaned, "What crown? There's nothing to eat in the house."
Then Rev. Choi thundered, "What little faith! Is your God the Father not in this world? Ah! How frustating it is to talk to those who only think about the flesh! If you pray, the Father will give!"
Then, shortly thereafter, around the evening, someone came by in secret and left rice and food near the tweed gate. Just like the believers of the First Church, with these hidden volunteerings, the traces of the pure faith, where the left hands knows not the almsgiving the right hand is doing, always appeared around Rev. Choi.
Rev. Choi's home was a mere dugout shed which was sinking to the ground, something that could hardly be called a house. But when he slept and rose up in the morning, all around him were bags of sorghum, rice, wheat, and more, with no clue as to who brought what from where.
During the days when Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung was Evangelist Choi Gwun-Neung, there was an event when great glory was returned to God, when Rev. Choi brought back a dead calf back to life after three days of prayer. During the time when he was traveling as colporteur-preacher, a bride who recently married into a destitute farm household asked Rev. Choi to bring back to life a calf of theirs which just died.
As this calf died not long after this new brice joined the household, it was a situation where that bride could be stigmatized as being a bearer of misfortune. Evangelist Choi prayed the entire day at the dead calf's side. The calf did not budge. The entire household was moved with emotion while witnessing his fervor in him staying awake the entire night in prayer.
"Reverend, you will injure yourself. It is our fault for asking in the first place."
Evangelist Choi also recollected in his mind the command to not tempt God. He was beginning to feel ashamed, as though he was utilizing some form of captation. But Evangelist Choi did not begin this prayer merely for men to behold, or for some sort of gain. He began this prayer without him even knowing it; he began this prayer because he was unable to tolerate this situation without prayer.
As he felt joy springing up deep within himself like spring water, on his third day of unceasing prayer, the dead calf woke back into life. When this miracle occurred by God's singular grace, Evangelist Choi merely said the following: "Believe in Lord Jesus. I did only what God instructed me to do."
By this event, the word regarding Evangelist Choi spread far and wide.
It was when Evangelist Choi Gwun-Neung was attending the Pyongyang Theological Seminary. One day, the Principal Samuel A. Moffett called over Evangelist Choi Gwun-Neung to give him stern advice.
"I am worried about your neglectfulness in your studies."
Evangelist Choi Gwun-Neung said nothing in return, as he was in the Principal's presence. But in his mind his thoughts were elsewhere. This world was teeming with demons, and it is the Name of Jesus that eradicates them, and nothing else. 'No other weapon matters! Theology is nothing more than slinging pellets at pigeons.'
Evangelist Choi's scores in Systematic Theology, New Testament Theology, and Old Testament Theology were poor. But his scores in Street Evangelism was full marks.
Evangelist Choi failed to pass.
To him, failing to pass the Theological Seminary, and studying one more year in self-cultivation was of no issue. But his heart was heavy at the thought how those believers at Byeok-Dong Church would be discouraged at this news, those believers who prayed for him in zeal in order for him to finally become a pastor.
Unfamiliar men warmly greeted him.
"Have you now become a pastor?"
"Ah, I will have to study one more year before that, it turns out," Evangelist Choi Gwun-Neung smiled.
He failed to pass again the year after that.
And when he failed once more, the third time, he determined that he could not idly stand by. This graduation ceremony must be finished.
It seemed as though the professors were holding a meeting of sorts in the office. He knocked on the door. When he opened it, the western blue eyes all focused upon Evangelist Choi. Their expressions became delicate, becoming awkward and apprehensive.
"Yes...?" One of the professors spoke, desiring to ask what the matter was about.
"There is something I wish to tell you all."
"Certainly. Go ahead."
Evangelist Choi spoke on, with their entire attention upon him.
"Professors, let us pray! Our God the Father, thank You for allowing someone as insignificant as I am to believe in Lord Jesus, to attend a Seminary and to study in this place. But I have failed once again this year, and am unable to graduate. My time was spent instead on prayer and proclaiming, and due to lacking time to study, I have failed to pass this third time. Ah, when shall I become a pastor? Please move the hearts of all these professors, and please open the path before me for me to be given a diploma, in order for me to become a pastor. I pray in the Name of Lord Jesus."
The professors, bewildered, replied, "Amen."
With straight face, the Evangelist Choi Gwun-Neung approached Principal Moffett.
"Principal, thank you. With your great love, I have been able to graduate today."
"This is a highly regrettable situation. Therefore, study with more effort next year. Proclaiming is good, but fruitful study in theology is needed for church revival."
"Reverend, what speakest thou? When I prayed just before, 'please open the path before me for me to be given a diploma, in order for me to become a pastor. I pray in the Name of Lord Jesus', did you not reply, 'Amen!'?"
Dumbfounded, Principal Moffet's eyes went wide open.
Then, a missionary sitting elsewhere at the table spoke up.
"Evangelist Choi, we never made this promise to give you a diploma."
"Professors, why speak words of such little faith? Is it not the correct attitude in prayer, to pray while being assured that you are granted that which you seek?"
"That is rather forced."
But then, the face of Principal Moffet began to brighten.
When Evangelist Choi, having spoken all that was on his mind, was leaving the office, Principal Moffet called him back.
"God indeed gives to those who ask. You are right. You have provided our theological education with edifying actions for all students to model themselves after. It is our eyes which have been in darkness. God just now granted me wisdom also."
The principal persuaded the professors to grant a diploma to Evangelist Choi, and Evangelist Choi finally graduated from Pyongyang Theological Seminary. The pure love and zeal Evangelist Choi had toward God became the driving force which moved the hearts of men.
When perusing The History of the Chosen Presbyterian Church, it is written there that in the year 1913 Evangelist Choi Gwun-Neung received ordination anointment as a minister at the North Pyongan Presbyterian Polity. Rev. Choi Gwun-Neung also was the one who taught Professor Pak Hyŏng-Nyong, who would later go on to become the dean of Chongshin University, the university which would go on to serve as the main body of the conservative theology.
In 1914 Rev. Choi was sent as an evangelist-minister unto the Southern Province of Manchuria. Upon arriving at Manchuria, he witnessed the serious conditions which the miserable farmers were living under. There was a family selling their daughter for a hundred pounds of corn. Among our countrymen there were those who spent the long winter with gambling and liquor. But the state of affairs with those who had faith in Lord Jesus were better off in comparison. At that time, the Japanese army, who recently took over the South Manchuria Railway, were roaming within Manchuria. Among our countrymen who immigrated into Manchuria there were many who carried around guns and knives in order to fight off bandits.
Rev. Choi, while traversing, thundered "Jesus!" whenever someone as so much as walked by yonder. The Chinese, despite not speaking Korean, comprehended that Name. That Name was more than enough to pierce their marrow asunder. Rev. Choi exuded an atmosphere not possessed by others. It was as if Jeremiah himself who proclaimed abroad God YHWH was standing right there in Manchuria. His shout was a peal of thunder that resonated within the spirit-soul. Wherever the Power of God descended the Works of Faith sprung up. By this the Fire of Evangelism burst forth in Manchuria, and churches were raised wherever he went. "Jesus = Heaven!" In his voice was an odd eminence and strength. In 1923 he was elected as the Polity Leader of South Manchuria, and in the same year he received commendation from the Polity of South Manchuria for his works of pioneer-evangelism.
One day, while visiting a meeting, Rev. Choi's ears caught a certain tuneful music, which name was 'Life Away From Home'. It was a while since he lived away from his home. It was already twelve years since he departed from his second home, Sakju Province. During those twelve years he raised up fifty churches. In Sakju was his second son, and his daughter, GwangOak. He yearned for the sight of the TaeDong River, and the faces of his family. Leaving his elder son in Manchuria, Rev. Choi returned home. He sold his house in Sakju, and moved to his hometown, GangDong. This is the testimonial from Rev. Noh Young-Seon, who during this time was a friend of Rev. Choi.
One day, he accompanied Rev. Choi in their travel toward Pyongyang. After having breakfast at MuJin, they began to depart. It was a broad road, and many people were walking by. Rev. Choi walked the entire forty li's of the way, not neglecting to evangelize a single person. Upon reaching a wide-open area, due to people suddenly multiplying, Rev. Choi shouted 'Jesus = Heaven!' toward the crowd. "Jesus = Heaven! Let us believe in Jesus." He exclaimed thus to all who were nearby, and by coincidence he met fellow laborers of faith. When they replied, "I am a minister!", or "I am an evangelist!", scarcely did their words fall to the ground when Rev. Choi thundered in sharp rebuke: "Stiff-tongues! It is as if corpses are walking around wearing shrouds for burial! Hurry and evangelize also!"
There is an interesting anecdote of the time when Rev. Choi was evangelizing a certain mountain village in North PyongAn. Along the mountainside in a certain place large columns of smoke clouded the skies, as if villagers were preparing slash-and-burn fields. The houses of such villagers are not collected in one place; though two or three houses may perhaps be in one place, one was usually obliged to travel five li's in certain directions to find further houses. Fields were open and wide, planted with sweet potatoes. In front of houses were children carrying their younger siblings on their backs, gazing upon this unfamiliar newcomer with curiosity. Somewhere in the village the sound of small rushing stream could be heard.
Then, suddenly Rev. Choi barked out, "Dying! We're dying!"
Men from houses rushed toward him in alarm.
"What's going on!?"
"Believe in Jesus and go to Heaven. If you do not believe, we will all perish!"
"What? Who do you think you're mocking!?"
"Everyone, if you don't believe in Jesus, you will all die! You hear me?"
The young men, outraged, attempted to strike Rev. Choi.
Rev. Choi attempted to flee, but an old man in his sixties could not run very far. Then, at that moment he recalled something in his mind.
"I am an ambassador from God!"
His voice was like thunderbolt. He displayed a medallion similar in appearance to a horse-warrant (Ma P'ae). Due to his imposing presence, all men fell before him.
That medallion was a silver medal he received from the Presbyterian General Assembly in commendation for his works when he was being sent as an evangelist-minister to South Manchuria. Upon displaying that medallion, with the evening glow of the sun reflecting upon it, the farmers of the mountain mistakened it for the horse-warrant of Amhaeng-eosa.
"What do us moles who dig dirt know? Please forgive us," they all begged.
"I am an ambassador of God who came to teach you all the way of worshipping God, out of my pity of you people of this deep mountain who live in ignorance of Who God is. What I have said just before is not falsehood. If he does not worship God, man dies!"
"If we worship God, will all our sins be forgiven?"
The problem became simple.
He called up all who were in the vicinity. And he raised up yet another church.
GokSan of HwangHae Province was a place where mysticism reigned strong; in consequence, evangelism was difficult in that area. Rev. Choi traveled there on his own accord. He first went to the shrine and set it on fire. All the townsfolk rushed forth; some wailed in great lamentation, crying out that their village was ruined. The young men rushed toward Rev. Choi with deadly killing intent.
They pushed Rev. Choi into the pit next to the shrine, to bury him alive. And from young children to old men they all grabbed stones to stone him. It was as if the matyrdom of Deacon Stephen was about to occur again. Then Rev. Choi recalled again the silver medallion he used while evangelizing the slash-and-burn villagers, and took it out once more. And he roared:
"This medallion enscribed with a cross is the silver award given unto me by the Presbyterian General Assembly of All Korea; if you are prepared to kill someone who holds this medal, proceed!"
In hearing of such imposing words, the men of HwangHae Province apparently perceived that medallion to be a horse-warrant also; they began to drop their rocks, and began to kneel and beg.
"We were ignorant; please spare us."
Rev. Choi replied, "If you wish to live, believe in Jesus! The only way to live is to believe in Him!"
Rev. Choi dwelled there for three months, and raised another church there.
There was not a place touched by the Hand of God through the bursts of wisdom from Rev. Choi.