Test Yourself Ch 9

Question 1

Which of the following best described Noel Perkin’s qualifications for the position of missions secretary?

Answer 1

b) Financial and business experience coupled with pastoral and missionary experience.

Question 2

Identify the focus of Article 6 of the Constitution that was adopted in 1927.

Answer 2

a) One committee, referred to as the Foreign Missions Committee, was given responsibility for both home and foreign missions.

Question 3

Identify a policy that was specifically spelled out in the 1931 Missionary Manual.

Answer 3

c) Regulations regarding distribution of funds to other missionaries and nationals

Question 4

Identify a major problem that missionaries encountered in organizing indigenous churches.

Answer 4

a) Translation of the Bible into local languages

Question 5

Which statement best describes church government in the early (1930) indigenous churches?

Answer 5

b) Democratic church government generally patterned after the AG in America

Question 6

Which statement best describes the response of AG missions to WWII?

Answer 6

c) AG missions concentrated on non-combatant areas such as Latin and South America.

Question 7

Identify the shift in missions emphasis that occurred as a result of the broader interpretation of Matthew 24:14.

Answer 7

a) Missions leaders added humanitarian goals to the list of evangelism goals.

Question 8

Identify an opportunity that was available for missionaries in 1957 (which was not available in 1943).

Answer 8

b) School of missionary orientation

Question 9

Which of the following was NOT used by the Foreign Missions Department to promote missions?

Answer 9

d) Ecumenical Missions Partnerships program

Question 10

Which of the following was required of missionary appointees in 1959?

Answer 10

a) Psychological, general knowledge, and language aptitude testing