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After I spoke yesterday I spent the majority of the day with Daniel Lee of Global Harvest Mission Church.  It was a great day of seeing a traditional Korean villiage.  We talked a lot while we walked.  I so desperately want to learn from these guys.  Both Daniel and Pastor Ha started their churches to reach the world.  Daniel has 300 full-time missionaries pastor Ha has 1,000.  They didn’t start with the typical American mega-church church story for starting their church.  They both believe this has uniquely positioned them.  One has around 25,000 in attendance and the other has over 50,000.  They are humble unassuming men.  They are very smart.  They are prayerful.  They started small and didn’t anticipate they would be among the top 5 largest churches in Korea let alone the top 10 to 20 in the world.

I asked Daniel what he attributed his growth to.  He said, preaching, cell groups, and an educational process that grew people.  Obviously, I asked what about prayer, that’s what I hear about Korean churches?  His response was, prayer is not unique about us - all Korean churches pray!  That’s just being a Korean church.  So yes, we pray, but not unique to us.  What an answer. 

I asked Daniel about all their missions and church planting.  “That doesn’t make us grow - it’s just what we do.” So what they value the most - spreading God’s name - isn’t what grows their church.  It’s how they disciple and train people to engage the world. 

These churches see the church from so many angles - how do we reach the lost, build community, disciple, grow the church, and engage the world.  These men have inspired me the past few days.  I simply don’t feel worthy to be here speaking they are so far ahead of us.  Why in God’s name they want to hear from us - I’ll never understand.  These men are the real hero’s of the modern church.