Great Commission Final

Historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's phrase "Great Century" described the unprecedented nineteenth century advance of Christianity around the world.

.True

A geographic region of the world that contains the majority of unreached peoples in the world

10/40 window

Genesis 12:1-3 is the call of _______.

Abraham

In Acts 13, the first missionary team in the book of Acts was sent out from the church at ________.

Antioch

When Ananias and Sapphira lied to the Holy Spirit it resulted in their ______.

Death

Acts 8 describes the conversion of an Ethiopian sorcerer.

False

Constantine's Edict of Toleration ended persecution of Christians.

False

Establishing indigenous churches was a missionary strategy that emphasized planting culturally relevant churches that were self-deprecating, self-absorbed, and self-induced (the "three selfs").

False

Genesis 11:1-9 is Paul's message on Mars Hill.

False

God calls the first missionary team from the Jerusalem church.

False

Hudson Taylor was a faith missionary to interior Thailand and founded the China Inland Mission.

False

Jonah is a good example of missionary obedience.

False

Luke describes five missionary journeys of Paul in Acts.

False

Mark's gospel never addresses the failures of Jesus' disciples.

False

Mission Dei is a Greek term that emphasizes the fact that God is the one who initiates and sustains missions.

False

Mission has not changed much since the New Testament times.

False

Mission in the Old Testament is best understood as a divine drama in five acts.

False

Missionary work is only overseas.

False

Paul models a residential missionary model rather than an itinerant model.

False

Paul was satisfied to win converts without starting new churches.

False

Paul was the first to proclaim the gospel to the people of Judea and Samaria.

False

Paul's epistles are written to the churches he started in order to provide them a theology of mission.

False

Paul's sermon in Acts 3 resulted in a large number of new converts to Christ.

False

Protestant reformers held that the Great Commission was not yet completed.

False

Raymond Lull was a missionary to Muslims in the 13th century who did not practice confrontational evangelism.

False

The Second Great Awakening did not impact missionary efforts in the early 1800's.

False

The geographical expansion of Christianity during this period always followed a consistent, planned strategy.

False

The great Reformers of Europe ushered in the modern movement of Protestant missions through their emphasis on the Great Commission

False

The word mission refers to the specific work of the church and agencies in the task of reaching people for Christ by crossing cultural boundaries.

False

The word missions refers to everything the church is doing that points toward the kingdom of God.

False

The work of monks and nuns did not impact the spread of the gospel.

False

An early problem in the church at Jerusalem in Acts 7 arose because of a complaint by the Hellenists against the ________ people.

Hebraic Jewish

Mission that takes into account all human needs: spiritual, social, and personal

Holistic mission

On the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2 the ______ _________ filled the disciples.

Holy Spirit

When Peter and John were arrested and told not to speak or teach any more in the name of Jesus, they prayed for boldness and were filled with the ________ ________.

Holy Spirit

Missionaries who learn the language and culture of their new context in such a way that they can behave like one who was born in that context

Incarnational mission

A church that fits well into the local culture

Indigenous church

Before Jesus ascended into heaven He told His disciples to be witnesses to Him in _____________.

Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the Earth

Acts 14:21-23 describes 4 activities of Paul's pattern for establishing churches: 1) preaching the gospel, 2) strengthening the new disciples, 3) appointing _______ and 4) _______ and fasting for the new church.

Leaders, praying

In Acts 14 Paul preaches to the ________ at Lystra who think Paul and Barnabas were Greek gods.

Lyconians

A term for third world

Majority world

The conquest of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) in 1453 marked the ultimate triumph of Islam in the ______ ______, the birthplace of Christianity.

Middle East

Islam is a religion that emerged in the 7th century led by the prophet _______.

Muhammed

A missionary who is not able to live permanently among the people group who is the focus of his ministry

Nonresidential missionary

The word "nations" is best translated as ethnicities or ______ groups, since it comes from the Greek word ______.

People, ethnos

God's kingdom mission is to form one ________ from all peoples for His glory and ________.

People, worship

Acts 10 details the vision of ______ and the conversion of Cornelius.

Peter

Exodus 19:3-6 teaches that God wanted Israel to be a nation of _____________.

Priests

Acts 9 details the conversion of ______ on the Damascus Road.

Saul

The Hebrew word for peace in the Old Testament

Shalom

After the Jerusalem Council, Paul left on his second missionary journey and took with him which of the following men?

Silas

Most of chapter 7 records a speech by a man named _______ who was killed by Jewish leaders because of what he said about Jesus Christ.

Stephen

Paul, during his missionary journeys, always went first to the Jews and God-fearers in the ___________ to teach about Jesus.

Synagogues

The replacement of core truths of the gospel with non-Christian elements

Syncretism

The practice of using paid employment to gain and maintain entry into a cross cultural setting

Tentmaking

Acts 8 records the persecution of the church at Jerusalem.

True

Bible translation preserved valuable facets of cultures and enabled indigenous Christians to better understand Biblical truth within their own culture's worldview.

True

By the end of the twentieth century the center of Christianity had shifted to the southern hemisphere signaling the end of Euramerican domination.

True

By the seventeenth century the economic and military decline of Spain and Portugal allowed for the emergence of three other countries, England, Netherlands, and France, to take the lead in Western colonization of the world.

True

Conservative evangelicals were often criticized by mainline Protestant mission leaders for de-emphasizing conversionary evangelism.

True

Disciples of Jesus Christ are people who have a deep commitment to Christ.

True

Early methods of evangelism include not only the witness of church members and itinerant evangelists but also visiting the sick and caring for the needy.

True

Ethnic and linguistic issues connected with food distribution contributed to the first major problem of the church in Jerusalem.

True

Evangelicals tend to emphasize evangelism and church planting as the organizing themes for their mission theology.

True

Genesis 3:15 teaches us that Satan is judges and redemption is provided through Jesus Christ's death on the cross and resurrection.

True

Jesus' statement in Matthew 24:14 links the 2nd coming of Christ with all nations hearing the gospel.

True

Missio Dei is a comprehensive term encompassing everything God does in relation the the Kingdom and everything the church is sent to do on earth.

True

Missiology is an applied discipline, not an armchair one.

True

Missiology is the academic study of missions, mission, and missio Dei.

True

Mission is more than evangelism.

True

Mission societies developed in the late eighteenth century and provided an infrastructure for sending missionaries throughout the world.

True

Monasteries were often training centers for missionaries.

True

One outcome of the impact of the growth of indigenous Christianity throughout the world was that the equation of Christianity with Western culture was challenged.

True

Parachurch organizations such as Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship and World Vision were important to ministry structure for the growth of evangelical missions.

True

Paul's missionary approach was a team rather than an individual.

True

Paul's preaching was essentially the story of Jesus.

True

Protestant reformers such as Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli said very little about foreign mission.

True

Regarding the name of Jesus, Acts tells us that there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

True

Spain and Portugal dominated early Christian missions efforts by virtue of their dominance in global exploration and discovery by the late 1400s.

True

The Edinburgh Conference of 1910 focused missionaries from around the world on the task of world evangelization in unprecedented ways.

True

The Greek words "all nations" (ta ethne) are typically translated as people groups

True

The Reformation principle of Scripture alone inspired later Protestant missionaries to use Bible translation as a mission strategy.

True

The ability to communicate the biblical message clearly in a new culture depends on how well key terms that express the divine drama are interpreted.

True

The cultural mandate is given before the fall and refers to God's command for humans to exercise dominion over all creation.

True

The early chapters of Acts 3-7 show that the apostles focused their evangelism upon the Jews of Jerusalem.

True

The foundation for missions is implicit in the creation story.

True

The gospels do not contain a systematic theology of mission.

True

The maximum duration Paul remained at a single location on his missionary journeys was less than 3 years.

True

The phrase "White Man's Burden" refers to the responsibility that North Atlantic countries claimed to possess for bringing Western civilization to heathen regions of the world.

True

The pre modern era of missions begins in the year 30 and ends in 1500.

True

The roots of Protestant mission in the "Great Century" (19th century) resulted from the spiritual revivals in the 18th century.

True

The traditional definition of missionary is one who crossed cultural boundaries to establish new outreach on behalf of Jesus and plant new bodies of local believers.

True

Today Western missionaries have become the minority of world missions.

True

William Carey was a missionary to India who initiated the modern missionary movement through his "An Inquiry Into The Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens."

True

Women accounted for 60% of Protestant missionaries in the 1800s and their work was crucial in education, evangelism, medical missions and benevolent ministries.

True

People groups that currently have no access to the gospel

Unreached peoples

The term Christendom refers to _______________.

the part of the world where Christianity prevails

The Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 addressed the relationship of the Old Testament Law to new Gentile converts to christ. The apostles decided that Old Testament circumcision ______

was not necessary for salvation.

Paul's sermon at Antioch in Pisidia retold the history of God's dealings with the Jews in the _______ _______ and then declared that Jesus was the way of salvation.

wilderness