Migration

Question 1

What is an independent church

Answer 1

Does not belong to a denomination

Question 2

What does leviticus 19 say

Answer 2

You shall love the alien as yourself

Question 3

What issues are there with an influx of migrants on the church

Answer 3

Pastoral care challenges with language barriers
Differences in worship styles
Loss of community cohesion

Question 4

What denomination has the largest influx of foreign worshippers

Answer 4

Pentecostalism

Question 5

What is the RCCG

Answer 5

Redeemed Christian Church of God
foudned in 1952, 800 congregations in the Uk with a vision for global expansion

Question 6

Where do 75% of all migrants to the uk go

Answer 6

London

Question 7

What is reverse mission

Answer 7

Countries that once sent out missionaries themselves now get sent missionaries from the countries they once evangelised

Question 8

What motivates reverse mission

Answer 8

The UK is increasingly seen as hostile to christianity, and there is a desire to see it thrive here again
Centre of Christianity has shifted to the southern hemisphere
Fight against atheism

Question 9

What ways can reverse mission take place

Answer 9

Short term visits of Non-british christians-maybe sponsored by a host church
Church Workers come to the UK with the intention to evangelise and convert white british
Churches appointing a minority background leader to rejuvenate congregation

Question 10

Has reverse mission been successful

Answer 10

Broadly no, but church rates among gen z are higher, albeit mostly among catholicism

Question 11

What is the secularisation thesis

Answer 11

That as country’s modernise, they become more secular

Question 12

In what ways is britain becoming more secular

Answer 12

A decline in attendance
A decreasing role for the church in public life
A loss of personal faith in god and other christian beliefs

Question 13

How many churches opened in the north east between 1980 and 2015

Answer 13

125-18 being historical denominations