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Jaerock Lee News
Sunday, 30 September 2007
SOUTH KOREAN PASTOR WOULD LIKE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO NORTH KOREAN LEADER, KIM JONG-IL

SOUTH KOREAN PASTOR WOULD LIKE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO NORTH KOREAN LEADER, KIM JONG-IL

By Dan and Peter Wooding

SEOUL, KOREA  (ANS) -- Dr. Jae-Rock Lee, the senior pastor of the 80,000-member Manmin Joong-Ang Church in Seoul, Korea, has revealed what he would like to say to North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il if they ever met. (Pictured: Kim Jong-il and father Kim Il Sung).

“If it happened and he would invite me, and knowing about me, I would preach to him about heaven and hell so that he could accept Jesus Christ as his Savior,” said Dr. Lee in an interview in his office in Seoul. “If that kind of thing happened, he must have some disease and some problem, and then it would be very easy to preach to him. If I prayed for him by the faith in Jesus Christ, then it would work and he would be healed by the power of God.” (Pictured: Dr. Lee in his office).

The contrast between North and South Korea is extraordinary. The North has only three legal churches in the country and has been designated by Open Doors as the “World’s Worst Persecutor of Christians,” while South Korea has one of the largest per capita number of Christians in the world.

Early last week, Dr. Lee said that that the recent train blast in Ryongchon, North Korea, that killed at least 161 people and injured at least 1,300 on Thursday, April 27, could “open up North Korea to the Gospel.”

He asked for prayer for the situation. “Both believers and non believers are doing their best to help the North Korean people and especially the believers of Jesus Christ pray that the door maybe opened through this accident so that people in North Korea may hear the good news of Jesus Christ.

“If the door is opened, we have been preparing a special team to go there to share the Gospel message and even some of them, even though they realize that they may have to lay down their lives and become martyrs, are willing to still go.

“We are very concerned for our own people in North Korea who are suffering so much.”

Then, in a rare interview, Dr. Lee then spoke about the first week of two weeks of revival meetings at his church.

“God has said that He would show the works that were written in the Bible during this first week of the revival meetings and He did just that,” he said. “God has said that during the next week, he will do even great things and we believe it will happen.”

My son, Peter and I, were amongst many overseas visitors to the church last week and so we asked him about what it had been like to meet with so many people from different countries.

“I felt that they really loved God and I was so glad to meet them and they were so pleased to witness the works of God during these revival meetings and they confessed that they will preach the Gospel through this experience so they can preach the Gospel to all of the world more greatly,” said Dr. Lee. “Also, they would like to cooperate together and that I was so excited to see and we can work together to preach the Gospel and accomplish His will on earth together that has what I felt through meeting with these leaders from different parts of the world.”

He was then asked about the way that the Koreans pray so fervently.

“From the establishment of our church, all the members have run so eagerly for the Kingdom of God and the members of our church have eager hearts because they have experienced the works of God in their reality and so they can pray because they love God and they are very happy stay long and even pray all night,” he said. “Lots of our members have experienced their own healing by the power of God and so they have a grateful heart for God. In the time of the first churches of the New Testament, the members got to together very gladly and likewise our members are very pleased to be together to pray and worship God.

“We see that the first churches grew so greatly, and so our members do like the members of the first churches and pray continually to God with all their hearts and have strong faith through witnessing and experiencing the power of God. The people who are saved are increasing with the signs and wonders that are written in the Bible and are being revealed in this in this church so they can preach the Gospel boldly to their friends and neighbors because they have experienced healing of God for themselves.”

When asked how people can pray for his ministry, Dr. Lee replied, “We ask people to pray for our World Mission programs and also so we can the Grand Sanctuary [a 200,000-seater church] and I also want people to pray for the Christian broadcasters are getting united to preach the gospel so we can preach the Gospel and the works of God to the whole world because the power of the media is very great so we can accomplish God’s Will.”

Finally, we asked who, besides Jesus Christ, he would like to meet when he gets to heaven.

He smiled and then said, “Abraham, Moses and in the New Testament, Paul. I want to especially meet the Apostle Paul because, even though he was persecuted so much, he ministered so much greatly. He couldn’t see anything, but he did his duty only by faith and I came to love and respect and I got this heart to follow him from the beginning of my religious life. In the darkness, Abraham, Moses and the Apostle Paul, couldn’t see anything, but if it was the will of God, they just followed and obeyed and that’s why I love them all so much.”


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