Bøger af Seong Soo Kim

We make many quick choices on the spot with little time for reflection. It becomes more confusing as traditional common values are being canceled without any replacement, and rapidly advancing technology disrupts personal life and work culture, and deception is found everywhere causing people to lose trust in people, systems, and the church. This situation confuses our decisions and practices, because our actions follow our decisions. The only way for us to make on-the-spot decisions with more confidence and godliness is to anchor ourselves to more solid Scriptural beliefs with more intense self-discipline to practice these beliefs. This book may serve as a textbook for people who want to strengthen their Christian beliefs, but may be more useful to those desiring to strengthen their Christian practices as it not only presents a list of Christian beliefs but puts equal weight on both biblical beliefs and Christian practices. His great grandmother was one of the earliest Korean Protestant Christians. Since her conversion her line has produced six pastors including Dr. Kim. He holds BS (Seoul National Univ) and MS (Univ of Tennessee), both in engineering. He worked full time as a senior engineer while pursuing PhD in engineering when he sensed the call from the Lord. He earned MDiv (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) and D.Min (Fuller Theological Seminary). Ordained in 1984 he served as pastor in North Carolina, California and Virginia. Now retired, he teaches, preaches and writes as the Spirit leads.

Actions follow attitude, and attitude comes from philosophy. A well established philosophy of ministry leads to a proper approach to ministry, and reduces the possibility of being unduly influenced by the surrounding culture. The ministry then bears much fruit. Conversely, an inadequate philosophy of ministry can distort the quality of one's ministry. Over time, I began to internalize and organize my ministry experiences in light of what the Bible teaches, resulting in a concept and draft of my own philosophy of ministry. I continued refining my philosophy over the next two decades. Many aspiring ministers continue to graduate from seminary without having fully developed their own concepts of ministry. Seminaries place greater priority on other subjects, leaving little room for the development of a student's own philosophy of ministry. Once one is engaged in full time ministry, the daily busyness leaves little time to develop or upgrade a minister's philosophy of ministry. The Lord has placed a burden in me to share what I have learned with pastors, ministers, seminary students, elders, deacons, and other church leaders. Your philosophy of ministry is very important - particularly in this rapidly changing world, because it determines your approach to ministry and thus impacts the fruit of your ministry. The less you are equipped with an adequate philosophy of ministry, the more painful mistakes and failures you will experience, which will rob you and your congregants of time, resources and opportunities. This book will help you build and optimize your ministry.