Religious Groups

Question 1

Anabaptists

Answer 1

protestant group that wanted to be re-baptized as an adult,

Question 2

Puritans

Answer 2

• protestant group that wanted to reform the Anglican church

- started their own denomination

Question 3

Pietists

Answer 3

-Christianity should be “personal, emotional, and practical”
-“The church within the church”
-Personal conversion – Holy Living – Group Fellowship – Responsibility for Witness – Bible Study
-Influence of Pietism:
Everyone come to God
Everyone share gospel

Spener→Francke→Muller→Taylor→Carmichael

Question 4

Moravians

Answer 4

-a religious group that were powerful prayer warriors, they split up the men from the women and divided people by ages

• Come out of Pietism
• Lived simply / community
• Sang hymns on board a boat during a storm

Question 5

Moravian discipline

Answer 5

• Prayer: Intercessory, lot
• Persecution
• Communal work
• Separation of sexes and children
• System of ten “choirs”

Question 6

Moravian spiritual emphasis

Answer 6

• Christ centered
• Heart not mind
• Conversion of the people
• Great commission not deamination

Question 7

Moravian lessons learned

Answer 7

1) Expect the Holy Spirit to act
2) Talk about Jesus first
3) Work with other Christian groups and churches
4) Use heart &amp?mind; head
5) Live with and beside others as neighbors
6) Look for quality not quantity

Question 8

Quakers

Answer 8

• “friends”
• believe Jesus is the Savior/ the Bible is God’s Word/ seek to live life like Jesus instructed
• direct access to the Living God (the Holy Spirit/ Scripture)
• Spiritual equality of all people (priesthood of all believers)
• “There is one, Christ Jesus, who can speak to your condition” George Fox
• Discerning the Weight of Beliefs
• Absolutes, Convictions, Opinions, Questions
• People can have different convictions and still follow Jesus
• Can live in tension
• Learn from one another
• Our lives need to be consistent with what we believe

Question 9

Quaker Testimonies (SPICES)

Answer 9

Simplicity (Spirit-led restraint)
Peace (A home and abroad)
Integrity (Consistency in word and deed)
Community (Living in Fellowship)
Equality (Seeking social justice)
Stewardship (Care for the Earth and its inhabitants)

Question 10

Methodists

Answer 10

• started as a group that wanted to reform the Anglican church
• started by the Wesley brothers at Oxford U.
• “holy club” that was mocked → Methodists
• Class system
  1) Leaders appointed
  2) Woman leaders
  3) Leadership selection
  4) Shared leadership
  5) Leadership vital
  6) Pastoral Care
  7) Met weekly

Question 11

Salvation Army

Answer 11

• Founded in East London in 1860s
• By William Booth
• “Soup, soap, and salvation”

Question 12

Independent African Churches

Answer 12

• outside of missionary control and the peculiar role that Christians educational institutions played in raising up a generation of black nationalist leaders
• separated from the mission-relationed churched as the start or as a result of schisms
• blend cultural and religious expressions into the Christian experience
• express yearning for national freedom