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● English Version of All-In-One Bible Study Series by Seum Books
(세움북스 올인원 성경공부 시리즈의 영문판)
● Studying & Sharing With One Volume
(한 권으로 연구와 나눔이 가능)
● Four Steps: At a Glance, An Exposition, Questions for Understanding, Questions for Application
(4단계 구성: 한눈에 보기, 내용 강해, 이해를 위한 질문, 적용을 위한 질문)
● Right Theology & Interpretation According to the Tradition of the Reformation
(종교개혁 전통을 따르는 바른 신학과 바른 해설)



This book, A Brief Exposition of the Core Christian Doctrines, has brief content on the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, each in four lectures. Each lecture is bundled into four steps: “At a Glance - An Exposition - Understanding the Content - Application in Life.” Moreover, it is the actual content that the author taught seminarians in the Philippines, so this book will be a very practical help, especially for seminary students or anyone who wants to study Christian doctrines in English.

이 책 『기독교 핵심 교리 해설』은 사도신경, 주기도문, 십계명에 대한 핵심 내용이 각각 3개의 강의로 이루어져 있습니다. 각 강의는 “한눈에 보기-내용 강해-이해하기-적용하기”의 4단계로 구성되어 있습니다. 더욱이 저자가 필리핀에서 신학생들을 가르쳤던 실제 내용이기 때문에, 특히 신학생들이나 영어로 기독교 교리를 공부하고자 하는 모든 사람에게 아주 실제적인 도움이 될 것입니다.

Do you have any experience of being moved by reciting the Apostles’ Creed during public worship? Are you grateful for the fact that our confession of faith in it comes from the triune God? And have you ever been moved by the Lord’s prayer? Do you really have hope for the kingdom of God? Also, are you actually conscious of God’s presence as you read the Ten Commandments with all the church members? As covenant people, do we love God and really love our neighbors?
If you are a believer in Christ, you will often encounter and study the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments. So these three things are very familiar to Christians. But ironically, the more familiar the content, the more often we miss its meaning.
So I decided to preach the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments to the church members. I wanted to make them “listen” to those as the word of God at the pulpit. For this reason, I avoided excessive scholarly debate and preached in easy language from the viewpoint of Reformed theology. That is why I have frequently quoted several Reformation confessional documents, all of which are sourced from The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition).
The content I preached over four weeks each became a manuscript and finally came out as a book. Originally, it was published in Korean in 2018-2019, one volume each. However, during this semester, I was lecturing in English to the students of Bohol Presbyterian Theological Seminary. The content was refined, supplemented, and published in one volume, A Brief Exposition of the Core Christian Doctrines.
The primary goal of this book is to make Christians “listen” to the meaning of the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments as the word of God. Of course, the Apostles’ Creed is not God’s word, but I intend to make them realize that the content of our confession of faith in it comes from God. The Lord’s Prayer and the Ten Commandments are the perfect words of God in themselves. And since this book approaches the reader by the paper, it will function as a sermon to be read rather than a sermon to be heard.
This book has brief content, so you can quickly grasp the core of the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments. The whole process of learning is bundled into one set. All lectures consist of four steps: “At a Glance - An Exposition - Understanding the Content - Application in Life.”
Moreover, A Brief Exposition of the Core Christian Doctrines will be a very practical help for preachers. This is because it contains the language of the pulpit as it is. In particular, it will be of great help in preparing the exposition if you examine each of the original texts in Appendix 1.
And unless otherwise noted, this book uses the NKJV Bible because of the text of the Lord’s Prayer that contains the doxology (Matt. 6:13b). Of course, various translations were used throughout. The first letter of divine pronouns will be capitalized in my sentences, like in the New King James Version.
For the convenience of the reader, sample answers are also added in Appendix 2. I have compiled answers to the questions in Understanding the Content and Application in Life. The answers to Understanding the Content are the same as the book itself, but the answers to Application in Life are an application related to the author’s daily life. With this in mind, I encourage you to come up with your own application.
Finally, I would like to thank CEO In-Gu Kang of Seum Books and his staff for publishing my lecture manuscript into a book. Most of all, I give profound thanks to Pastor Sam Ha (Ph.D. candidate, Calvin Theological Seminary) for writing the foreword. I also want to thank Sur Kim for reading the manuscript carefully and giving advice. I dedicate this book to my wife Mi-Ae Son, whom I love more than anyone, and my three sons. All glory to God!

FOREWORD 5
PROLOGUE 8
ABBREVIATIONS 10

The Apostles’ Creed

LECTURE 1 13
Confessing Our Faith in God the Father

LECTURE 2 27
Confessing Our Faith in God the Son (1)

LECTURE 3 39
Confessing Our Faith in God the Son (2)

LECTURE 4 51
Confessing Our Faith in God the Holy Spirit

The Lord’s Prayer

LECTURE 5 65
Background and Overall Structure

LECTURE 6 77
God’s Immanence and Transcendence

LECTURE 7 89
Three Petitions for God

LECTURE 8 103
Three Petitions for Us & Doxology

The Ten Commandments

LECTURE 9 117
Structure, the First Scene & Preface

LECTURE 10 131
Duty of Love for God (Commandments 1-4)

LECTURE 11 157
Duty of Love for Neighbors (Commandments 5-10)

LECTURE 12 183
Conclusion and Application With the NT


EPILOGUE 202

APPENDIX 1 203
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Texts

APPENDIX 2 209
Sample Answers

BIBLIOGRAPHY 255

Who would need to read this book? I would say that everyone who believes in Jesus Christ would definitely benefit from this work. Pastors and teachers would learn a lot about how to teach other
believers. Ordinary believers can teach themselves while reading this book. Also, this book could be used as a textbook. You can read this book as a group and share your thoughts with one another.
_ Pastor Sam Ha (Ph.D. candidate, Calvin Theological Seminary)
누가 이 책을 읽어야 할까요? 예수 그리스도를 믿는 사람은 누구나 이 책을 통해 반드시 유익을 얻게 될 것입니다. 목회자와 교사는 성도들을 가르치는 방법에 대해 많이 배울 수 있습니다. 일반 성도들도 이 책을 읽으면서 스스로 공부할 수 있습니다. 또한 이 책은 그룹 스터디 교재로도 사용할 수 있습니다. 다 같이 읽고 서로의 생각을 나누게 하는 훌륭한 도구입니다.
_ 하늘샘 목사 (미국 칼빈신학교 박사 과정)