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This article claims a revised practice of youth ministry with the 1.5 generation Korean Americans based on their conversion experiences of divine love and acceptance. The conversion experiences were gathered from the 20 intensive interviews upon which the researcher's doctoral research was based. The research results indicate that the 1.5 generation Korean Americans experienced their conversions predominantly through the assurance of divine love and acceptance rather than the awareness of sin. On the one hand, it is because their psychological needs for security, sense of belonging, and self-esteem were satisfied in their conversion by the experiences of divine love and acceptance. On the other hand, it is because their ethnic churches have overemphasized the concept of sin as pride. In this sense, practices of youth ministry with the 1.5 generation Korean Americans need to focus more on the theme of divine love and acceptance, while wisely applying reframed notions of sin.
