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      <image:title>My Thoughts - 7 Essentials for Campus Experience during COVID19 - 6. Online offering/tithe</image:title>
      <image:caption>This goes back to the rule of trying to limit people from touching the same things (with check/cash in envelopes usually the ushers will have to open that and count it). I suggest going all digital for your offerings and tithes. Put the info on the screen and let people give back through their phones. Keep this time in your service since it is an act of worship but instead of an offering plate being passed around, you put up information on the screen for how people can give their offering digitally.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - 7 Essentials for Campus Experience during COVID19</image:title>
      <image:caption>When I first visited Saddleback Church while I was church planting my friend told me about the campus experience pastor. This position seemed unnecessary as he was explaining the ministry to me. I was so confused because I never heard of " campus experience" before. 1 year later I became the campus experience pastor. :) If you are on staff with a church then I'm sure many of your church members are asking the same questions: When are we going to have church service again in the building? Along with that question will be follow up questions about the church's prep on safety and adjustments to keep social distancing. Some churches have already started to gather together in their buildings for weekend services. Most of these churches are smaller to medium sized churches (100-300 people) which makes it easier for them to spread out chairs. Larger churches (500 or more people per service) are doing the registration model which means there are only a limited number of seats in the service and the only way you can attend is by pre registering. No matter how you are setting up your church service, the campus experience is what everyone will be curious about (donuts, coffee, lobby talk, etc). Here are 7 Essential ideas to focus on for your campus experience as people re-enter the church building.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - 7 Essentials for Campus Experience during COVID19 - 2. Should have masks available for people to wear before entering</image:title>
      <image:caption>This will be different for each church. Will your church require masks for people to attend service? Even if the answer is no then it will still be a nice touch for for you to have masks available for those who want to wear one but didn't bring one. Offering masks especially if your church will require it is that extra bit of comfort that people will feel because you are going above and beyond to keep people safe.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - 7 Essentials for Campus Experience during COVID19 - 5. Consistent restroom cleansing</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is another area where you might have to recruit and most likely will form this for the first time. With so many people going in and out of the bathroom, there should be a team of people that will wait outside who can go in every 5 minutes or maybe do a count of people like for every 4 people that walk out of the bathroom the person will go in and disinfect/sanitize. This team will wipe down counters near sinks or other areas that are commonly touched with disinfectant cleaning spray. I guarantee you that anyone who sees this happening at their church will feel so much more safe and loved that the church cares about the people to the point of disinfecting bathrooms consistently.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - 7 Essentials for Campus Experience during COVID19 - 3. Place multiple hand sanitizer stations all over your campus</image:title>
      <image:caption>I don't mean have a bunch of hand sanitizer bottles everywhere for open use. This will depend on your budget but investing into some automatic hand sanitizer dispensers will be nice. You know, the kind where you just have to put your hand near the sensor and it will pump out the hand sanitizer. And if you have the budget, I would buy multiples so that you can spread these all over the campus. You don't want lines or crowds to form because you only bought 2 of them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>7. All programs/bulletins/message/pens notes on chairs</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1. Designate 1 way entrance in and a separate 1 way exit out of your church</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>4. No more self serve coffee and donuts</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Time to play offense - I don’t think members of asian churches know how to engage in real life warfare with current events and real life mental warfare with counter philosophies and systems of thought. For example, when I used to serve in a predominantly Korean Campus ministry on college campuses, I would sometimes stir up the pot with students and ask them “what would you do if someone came up to you and said that they are pregnant or that they had an affair or just got diagnosed with a serious illness”. The most common answer I heard was “I would share with them that God is with them” and then they would share some bible verses with the person. WTH?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The answer is not a bible study. In fact, the answer is not to share a bible verse at all. The answer is to express biblically accurate truth but in counsel and strategic dialogue. Actually sometimes you don’t say anything at all, and you just shut up and listen. But it makes sense for someone who has gone through years of bible study and Wayne Grudem, that their natural response to life struggle would be Rom. 8:28.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I remember when I was in my 9th year of pastoral ministry and I knew some college seniors who wanted to be a pastor. I would always ask anyone pursuing pastoral ministry this same question: "Why do you want to be a pastor"? The 2 answers I would always hear were "because I want to preach or because I want to serve the Lord". My response was always the same. I said, "You can do that without being a pastor. Get a different job, make more money and you can still teach and serve the Lord for the rest of your life. There is only 1 answer to this question. So why do you want to be a pastor?" Calling is important and is part of the answer but no young 20's person has ever answered that question correctly for me. There are different ways to say the answer, but there is only 1 (picture Dr. Strange). By the way, "God called me" is another can of truth and crazy that needs to be explained. Don't get me started on that.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Time to play offense - This is pretty typical in Korean or Asian churches. Most of what we teach is defense. I don’t ever remember a gathering or study that was focused on venturing out into the city and evangelizing or how to engage with your friends/work place when there is opposition to the gospel. Most of the time the answer I heard was, if someone doesn’t believe you just pray for them. Theologically, prayer is always good but the solution was quite unhelpful because it didn’t resolve the need/problem. Maybe once or twice a year there will be a free food event for the community or the yearly Christmas angel tree project. And there is nothing wrong with hospitality which I believe Koreans do very well. However with all the Francis Chan book reads and R.C. Sproul curriculum, there wasn’t much focus on tactics. Instead most of the focus was on theological training through bible studies.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>My entire childhood and life up to my mid 30’s was a game of defense. I played it safe for almost my whole life. I never tried out for school sports, never raised my hand first, never got in a school fight, always stayed clear from troublemaker students at school, and listened to everything school teachers said. I was a goof off in high school but did nothing to risk real trouble because I knew where the line was. This makes sense though because my parents were foreigners and were trying to follow the rules and the life basics that most people did. I am so thankful for the discipline they taught me. It also caused me to believe that I will always be a subordinate, a follower and to lower my voice.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>2. This is the best time to lead your whole church into serving the community/city around you. The easiest and probably the best ministry you can start is a food bank. Make a list of essential groceries and household items, get people from your church to divide it all up and purchase it. Put the essential produce and household items in bags and have people from your community/city drive up and get free groceries. Do whatever your church is capable or able to do. That was just 1 idea. But get your church out there in safe ways. Serve them and then minister to them. You can do this with minimal contact and keep those with health risks at home.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Time to play offense - We are observing a generation of leaders though that are not as silent on current events especially now. In fact, Gen Z no matter how traditionally asian or old school your church might be, is going to be heavily involved with current events and the collective thoughts of all their friends and strangers around the world. Their entire life has been centered and surrounded by social media that has no comparison to any previous generation. Video games, TV, movies or literature does not have the same reach/access like social media. So unless they don’t have a phone, don’t have a personal computer and the house computer has some sort of restriction on it against social media, your Gen Z children/teens are learning about current events and reading every single person’s subjective opinion about it. You might be silent about it and therefore they are seeking answers outside of the church.</image:title>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Time to play offense - If you’re from a Asian Church, then here are 3 points to help you build an offense.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Be intentional with your bible studies and theology courses. Build clear action points into your application that is relevant to current events, current life stages or current local problems. Do this if it’s possible. By no means would I advocate you forcing a relevant application into the passage if it doesn’t fit within the original author’s intent/purpose. What I often see is application focused more on personal sanctification only (your own spiritual growth usually in advancing your understanding of Scripture/God/Gospel). Although that is not wrong, it doesn’t build an offense either. It’s time to lead and guide your members in expressing their faith and theology to meet critical needs and real life problems.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>So many emotions, so many arguments, so many facts, so many lies, so many reactions, so many positions, so many excuses, so many violent acts and so many thoughts. This blog post wouldn’t be able to retain the attention of the reader if I wrote everything out. But I will state one emotion that consistently feel among many others and that is sadness. I’m sad. I feel sad. Racists comments, violent actions, unfortunate deaths and so many cops getting crapped on right now. I feel sad for my friends who are cops. They’re getting yelled at, rocks and bottles are being thrown at them. That makes me sad. It all makes me sad. I learned a great gold nugget of truth from Pastor Tom Holladay on Sunday during service. He said don’t compare grief to other grief. Please don’t curve this into some insensitive comment where I am diminishing/disrespecting the pain of our black community. Just read the beginning of this blog again. I’m just sad for it all</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Pastor does not mean Preacher - As I progressed in my pastoral ministry, I couldn't help but think about how preaching/teaching cannot be the main role of a pastor and it definitely couldn't be the only required skill since there are plenty of teachers in the church who aren't pastors. Part of this discovery was due to my personal journey in church strategy (at the time I didn't know what church strategy was) as I thought more about systems/structures of church.</image:title>
      <image:caption>My frustration built up as students would often say "I thought you had to be a pastor to preach/teach" or "if you're the pastor then you are the one to lead bible study" or "I can't teach because I'm not a pastor". Then it really got tough when most pastors focused mostly on preaching, and therefore there was no development in church strategy or raising other leaders. This is exactly what I did. You know what else I hated? When people thought being an elementary pastor (which I was for the first 8 years) was not a "real" pastor. That is another story.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Pastor does not mean Preacher - To those who are considering pastoral ministry because you really want to preach/teach, I beg you to please reflect on this role deeply and talk to some other pastors/church leaders outside of your circle. One book I highly recommend is Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp. And if you are a young pastor in your 20's and reading this, then I beg you to study up, learn and develop some key skills that pastors need (campus experience, assimilation systems/structure, evangelistic strategy for your city, constructing a clear vision and knowing how to be aligned with it throughout the year, etc). Another way to think about learning church strategy is by asking questions: How do you start a small group from scratch? What do you have in place for a new visitor/1st time guest? How do you follow up with visitors? How do you know if your small groups are healthy or not? What is the pipeline for church volunteer/leadership/staff development? Do you have an open hand or closed grip church style? How do you think about a student's pathway from Elementary to Jr High to High School to College?</image:title>
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      <image:caption>I remember when I was in my 9th year of pastoral ministry and I knew some college seniors who wanted to be a pastor. I would always ask anyone pursuing pastoral ministry this same question: "Why do you want to be a pastor"? The 2 answers I would always hear were "because I want to preach or because I want to serve the Lord". My response was always the same. I said, "You can do that without being a pastor. Get a different job, make more money and you can still teach and serve the Lord for the rest of your life. There is only 1 answer to this question. So why do you want to be a pastor?" Calling is important and is part of the answer but no young 20's person has ever answered that question correctly for me. There are different ways to say the answer, but there is only 1 (picture Dr. Strange). By the way, "God called me" is another can of truth and crazy that needs to be explained. Don't get me started on that.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Every young pastor desires the day when he/she gets to preach. Preaching is fun and I love it but it is a bit too glamorized. It probably is the main reason why most people want to become a pastor. That is what everyone sees every weekend-the pastor preaching at the pulpit, being the face of the church and usually the person everyone wants to meet with. Like it or not, most people can't resist being the center of attention. Those who grew up in the church have this image imbedded into their brains. The pastor means the preacher on Sundays.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Pastor does not mean Preacher - Many pastors don't know how to create church strategy or develop their staff because they were never trained to do so. If you were/are a teaching pastor then focusing only on sermon prep and developing curriculum fits the role. But most of us are not. I dare any of you greek gods to do a word study on "pastor" in the NT and you will find that it doesn't mean teacher/preacher. Here is some greek trivia for you. How many times does the word pastor appear in the NT?</image:title>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Pastor does not mean Preacher - In Korean churches, the pastor was the main head guy. When you were the pastor, you were the top dog. And if you were the head/senior pastor, then wow, you were really the main figure. I believe this what draws a lot of young asians into pastoral ministry. This was the example that was always set before us.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Some pastors know that there is much more to preaching for a pastor...some. When I first became a "Jundo-Sah" (literally means evangelist in korean. There was another title they used for you if you got ordained), I followed the model and did what my predecessors showed me. Prepare my sermon, take care of curriculum, assist the Sunday school teachers with supplies and oversee/run large events like retreats, VBS, Halloween, etc. It consists mostly of operations or sermon prep.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>If you're on staff from an Asian Church, then please focus more on developing well rounded pastors/leaders. I do believe culturally, preaching is more valued in Asian churches which is not wrong and key to understanding the difference in asian churches. That's our culture. However, be careful of glamorizing it for your younger staff. The temptation with ego is all too easy. If you preached for 1000 people I think that was a great opportunity and good experience. But that in no way shoots you to the top of any resume pile. I hate to tell you this, and maybe this is for you who loves to preach, but you might not be a great preacher. You might be good or ok, but you may not be great. So what does that mean? Are you going to fail as a pastor? Please yell NO for me here. And to those who are leading churches and staff, please mine out other gifts in your pastors that are always looked over or even invisible because you don't pay attention to it. Stop trying to make every pastor into an asian Haddon Robinson.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Breaking out of my Korean Box - Some may criticize me with only 100 or so followers on IG and subs on my YT channel. However most of them have no idea that the skill of silencing haters is the win here. Being able to topple fear and go for it "wisely" is what I want others to learn, especially other Asians who don't have the opportunity very much to practice this. There's no paid class or free first session and then pay for the 2nd. This is just me reaching out to anyone who wants to learn, begin a journey of liberation and perhaps follow through with some of your passions and dreams. Let's connect and I am here to serve you. Connect with me through any of my social media channels.</image:title>
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      <image:title>My Thoughts - Breaking out of my Korean Box - Being able to silence the noise of haters or pessimists takes time to build up. I mean, it took me 6 years to defend myself against my own fear. It was one of the strongest opponents that led the charge for my insecurity. I am still mastering the skill and it's a long road. But once you start, it is liberating. For a Korean guy like me, being able to edit, post and just enjoy the process brought me into a world of freedom that has helped me to be more bold and creative. In my Korean culture, taking risks is often not encouraged. I remember when I got into USC and told my parents that I wanted to study music recording (sadly that program no longer exists there). My mom didn't even have a clue of what that meant. She was so confused about why I would want to go to such an expensive college and study that. Now, imagine what it was like when I told my parents that I wanted to be a pastor after I graduated college. Oh my goodness, that story must be shared later.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>I didn't take risks growing up. I stayed in my lane, avoided conflict, never went to a high school dance (yes even missed my senior prom), attended youth group every Friday and Sunday at church, listened to mostly everything my parents said, never EVER went out on a school night and did my homework as soon as I got home from school. I tell everyone I was a goodie-goodie. It's true. I value and am thankful for my culture and the many lessons I have learned. But I also missed out on a lot of other lessons. So sadly I learned this very late in the game.</image:caption>
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