It is truly amazing what a church can do. Despite it's many flaws/mistakes/imperfections, the Church has the capability of bringing healing and fellowship to the most broken situations. I had the opportunity to experience a glimpse of that on Sunday.
As I wrote about earlier, I had established a goal for myself: to find some local church here in Daejeon where I could plug into a community. Peter, a man I met at a Korean church during my first weekend here, helped me find an English speaking church in town. This Sunday, I retraced the steps that Peter had shown me on the subway and bus system, and arrived at Saeronam Church in Daejeon.
The service was exactly what my mind, soul and body needed that day. When you can look around a room, seeing people from literally all over the world, gathered for one common purpose, something special happens. You feel a trickle of hope start to flow, from out of nowhere. The air becomes lighter, and your heart starts to glow with a new energy. This is it. This is a snapshot of what this thing called the Christian Church might be capable of. People, united, under a banner of love and service for one another. There is perhaps no place as beautiful on planet Earth as a small room such as this on a Sunday morning.
True joy and peace, for the heart and mind.
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