Graves BMIS 3000 Final

Harding University

Universalism

all ultimately will be saved because God is good

Wider Hope

not all will be saved but many who have not heard of Christ will be saved because God will not condemn a sincere seeker of the truth

The Great Century of Protestant Missions

1800s

He was sold as a slave when he was a small boy

St. Patrick

Synagogue

the natural place for religious discourse and discussion for Jews

Diaspora

the contemporary scattering of people across the globe whether from economic migration, refugee flight, displacement, or other circumstances. this reality has opened new doors for missional action and missiological reflection

The “Father of Modern Missions”

William Carey

His missionary recruits had no set salary

Hudson Taylor

He suffered torture and imprisonment

Adoniram Judson

He studied medicine but evangelism was his goal

Hudson Taylor

His wife was “wholly deranged”

William Carey

He initiated missionary outreach in Burma

Adoniram Judson

He worked as a missionary to India

William Carey

He was America’s first venture into overseas missions

Adoniram Judson

He wrote a very unusual proposal letter

Adoniram Judson

He wore Chinese clothing and even a pigtail

Hudson Taylor

The traditional view and the path of wisdom

The three wills of God

The “Watch Maker” analogy 

a watch has too many complexities to have happened at random, so we assume it has a creator

Theodicy

an attempt to answer the problem of evil. specifically a branch of theology and philosophy which attempts to reconcile belief in God with the perceived existence of evil as such, theodicy can be said to attempt to justify the behavior of God (at least in so far as God allows evil)

The cosmological argument

every finite and contingent being has a cause, nothing finite can cause itself, a causal chain cannot be of infinite length, a first cause (or something that is not in effect) must exist

The anthropological argument

because of mans morality and search for a higher being, there must be a God

The teleological argument

“telos” means end or purpose, irriducible complexity points to an intelligent being, natural law and creation point to a creator

The design argument

There exists so much intricate detail, design, and purpose in the world that we must suppose a creator. All of the sophistication and incredible detail we observe in nature could not have occurred by chance, i.e., complexity implies a designer. The universe is highly complex; therefore, the universe has a designer

Missio Dei

mission of God

Ethnocentrism

judging another culture solely by the values and standards of ones own culture

Syncretism

Fill-in-the-blank: The Three-Self Formula

Steven Moore’s Good Samaritan formula

proximity+urgency+capacity=responsibility

The question at the heart of culture

The three most influential world views in America

monotheism, polytheism, atheism

How would people live if they didn’t believe in heaven?

a self-centered society, a fear of death, a focus on the here and now

Incarnation

embodied in human form

The kenotic nature of Jesus’ ministry

Jesus emptied himself for his ministry

Is culture inherited?

Culture shock

Reverse culture shock

Going native

The number of ethnic groups in Nigeria

E-Scale

P-Scale

Definition of paternalism

The types of paternalism that were discussed in class

The most important task related to the sending function of the Church

The role of churches in missions

One of the most significant challenges that any church faces in global missions

The heart of the missionary enterprise

Why the challenge to missionary wholeness is so challenging

Missionary burnout

What lies behind every act of communication?

The most important ability in communication for the missionary

Understand high-context and low-context cultures

Understand mono-chronic and poly-chronic cultures

Individualism and collectivism – the most significant dimension of culture

The consensus view of raising support

When STM projects peaked

The tentmaking skill that has grown the most

Holistic missions

Recent trends in contemporary missions

Advantages of multicultural teams

The primary reality that missionaries must face

Why STMs are so popular?

The projected popularity of STMs

The percentage of evangelicals from the majority world

The role that missionaries played in previous generations

Be familiar with the spectrum of Muslim contextualization

The biggest challenge the church will face in the future

Syncretism