Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A few thousand worshippers at last week's Sunday service at Sagero Church and the city of Busan, South Korea,

sang loudly, All my life you have been faithful, my life, you have been so, so good.

I will sing of the goodness of God."

It's an appropriate song for a congregation that's grown so dramatically, from about 20 members a few decades ago to a 23-acre campus now buzzing with life and activity.

After the service, dozens of church members prepared free lunches for everyone who

wished to stay as they do each and every week. It's a practice, an elder told me, that makes it

possible for the church to also offer meals for wedding celebrations that take place at Cigaro

Church nearly every weekend at no charge to the marrying couples. It's an essential way that the church

is addressing the crisis of the nation's declining marriage and fertility rates, which are among

the lowest in the world, though you'd not know that from the hundreds of young people who

gathered at the stage to sing at the beginning of each service. And last year, the church also started a Christian

school. And yet, since August, the lead pastor of Segaro Church, Pastor Somme, has been in prison,

accused by the government of election interference. I visited Pastor Sond this past week,

hoping to encourage him. Instead, he encouraged me. And I mean that in the most literal sense

of the word. He gave me courage, like he has for his own three children, who advocate on his behalf,

as he has for the elders and pastors of the church, some of whom are also being targeted by the

state, and also his wife, who spends most nights sleeping and praying at the church.

Meanwhile, during the time he's

been in prison, Pastor Sond has written a book and is also sharing the gospel tirelessly with fellow

inmates. Now, it may be that Pastor Sond and his zeal to speak out against the current administration's

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