Test 3 Flashcards
(124 cards)
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How many people live in New Zealand?
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4 million
2
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According to Aaron, most New Zealanders see no need for God?
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True
3
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How many paid preachers are there on the South Island from the Churches of Christ?
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1, Aaron Knotts
4
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Did Aaron say that New Zealand is an easy or difficult place to work?
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Did Aaron say that New Zealand is an easy or difficult place to work?
5
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how did the Sao Paulo mission team start.
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4 people
6
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how many families signed on in the following months for Sao Paulo
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16
7
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what was the concern/criticism that was expressed before the Sao Paulo team left
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People thought they were too big of a group
8
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how did they choose Sao Paulo
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Vote
9
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what was the Sao Paulo team’s strategy
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they studied the language and gathered money
10
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what quality characterized the Sao Paulo team’s relationship with each other
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LOVE, but they would fight but for betterment of the group. They always came to a consensus.
11
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what was the impact of the Sao Paulo team’s work
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laying a solid foundation that lasted.
12
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according to Norton, what was the greatest achievement of the Sao Paulo team
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that they learned to love one another deeply
13
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what stood out to you as especially significant about the way the Sao Paulo team worked together.
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how all those people worked together so well
14
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what are some of the important contributions that the Sao Paulo team has made? what are some of the lasting influences?
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Laid the foundation for team missions
15
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where did the Brooms go?
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West Africa, Nigeria
16
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why did the Brooms go?
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a friend that was there wanted them to come
17
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what was Wendell Broom’s initial reaction to the invitation to go?
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dumbest thing he has ever heard–didn’t want to go
18
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when did the Brooms go
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1955
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had the Brooms been there before
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No, it was an unknown land to them
20
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What was the Broom’s first struggle
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trying to avoid Americanizing the African church
21
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What attitude characterized Wendall’s ministry
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that the Africans were partners, brother to brother
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what was the major emphasis of Wendall’s church planting ministry
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teaching the africans to teach the word of God
23
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What is the one underlying theme that has guided Wendell and Betty Broom
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Seek first the kingdom of God
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How many tribal churches did the Broom’s establish
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3000
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what was unique about McCaleb
He was the first COC missionary without oversight
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where did McCaleb work
Japan
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When did McCaleb begin his work
1892
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how was McCaleb supported
butter and egg money from former students
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how did mccaleb gain the confidence of the people
by respecting the culture and learning the language
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what was mccalebs great passion, why did he stick it out
that anyone outside of the church of christ was lost and that his work was the will of God
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why did mccaleb leave japan
ww2 started and the gov't kicked him out
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what was one of mccalebs legacies
gift of writing and poetry
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what did mccaleb sell so that he could travel and study other missionaries and missionary methods
His house
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what famous hymn did he write
the gospel is for all
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in what country did the coles serve as missionaries
papua new guinea
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what was reg cole's profession before becoming a fulltime missionary
engineer
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what was mrs cole trained for
nurse
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how old was reg cole when they began their mission work
50
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when did the coles leave for the field
december 1932
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how much formal training did the coles have before leaving
none
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how much financial support did the coles have when they began their work
full support for the first six months
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what was the coles approach to the work
built home, church, and airstrip
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reg cole was paricular and _____, ruth cole was more like a _______
precise, tornado
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what is the name of the valley in which the coles worked
waria
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how many years did the coles spend in new guinea
14
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what were the first names of the paden brothers
harold and cline
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where did the padens work
italy
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when was harold exposed to the need in that country
during the war
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through a gift of ______ the padens were able to reach many
humor
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who harassed and bullied the paden families
the catholic church
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who came to the aid of the paden group
the us government
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cline was a visionary what did he establish in 1962
the sunset international institute
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how much missionary training had the padens had
none
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I don't think we were anyone special, we just had a ______, a _____ to share the _____ of Christ with people that desperately needed it
determination, motivation, gospel
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why are the padens honored as heroes of missions
vision and love of God
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during Parker henderson's time stationed in the ____ theater during ww2, parder had a realization. He realized that there are lot's f people in the world that do not have a chance to _____ or to _____. His time spent in southeast asia had sparked a flame in him
China-burma, read the bible, hear about jesus
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By _____ Parker henderson and his family were headed to _____ as missionaries
1958, thailand
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the Hendersons were using ___-_ as a magnet
english
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Henderson's methods were very effective in reaching people all over the country
true
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what is the predominant religion in thailand
buddhist
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in ___ the hendersons went to trinidad. they planned to stay for __ years. How long had the Hendersons been in trinidad when the video was produced
1980, 2, 28 years
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trinidad is a very ____ place. but it is ______ because they _____ so ____
receptive, receptive, work, hard
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the hendersons established the trinidad what
school of preaching
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the hendersons legacy would be that you can be a missionary for ___
life
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part of Parker henderson's philosophy in spreading the gospel is in teaching men and women to ____ others
teach
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as a result of the henderson efforts in thailand over _____ churches have been planted in that country
100
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Adoniram judson
missions in burma
1846 he married the author of he dead wife's biography
his legacy was evangelism, translation work, and endured much to reach the people
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j. hudson taylor
tried living entirely by faith, had a diet of one pound of apples and a loaf of bread each day, missions in china, he had no comforts, didn't ask for wages but chose to pray for the employer to remember, he became chinese to identify, wore black hair and a ponytail
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3 dimensions of culture
ideas, feelings, values
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how is culture passed on
learned not inheritedq
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definition of culture
the more or less integrated systems of ideas, feelings, and values and their associated patterns of behavior and products shared by a group of people who organize and regulate what hey think, feel, and do
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relationship between the gospel and culture
the gospel must be distinguished from culture. the gosple must be expressed in cultural form. the gospel calls all cultures to change
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three causes of culture shock
1. language shock
2. changes in routine
3. changes in relationships
4. loss of understanding
5. emotional and evaluative disorientation
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what is the stress score of many first time workers
over 400
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the cycle of culture shock
1. the tourist stage
2. disenchantment
3. resolution
4. adjustment
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how many ethnic groups are there in nigeria
more than 250
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what is the global south
where christ began his ministry with his disciples (africa, asia, and latin america)
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what language is the leading language of church membership
Chinese, hindi, swahili and other southern languages
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where is the center of gravity in the church world today
towards the south ie africa, asia, and latin american
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how many cultures have yet to be reached
at least 4000
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what does kwast mean by values
values are preset decisions that a culture makes between choices commonly faced. it helps those who live within the culture to know what should or ought to be done in order to fit in or conform to the pattern of life
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what are the names and order of the layers of culture
behavior, values, beliefs, worldview
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values reflect an underlying system of
beliefs
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does adney say that ethnicity should be rejected
no
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what happens when ethnicity is turned into an idol
it must be confronted and judged
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what are four applications of ethnicity for missions
affirm the local, be pilgrims, build bridges, nurture ethnic churches
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what is a culture broker
they link our congregation with specific churches of other heritage in our community, and who holds the church members accountable for maintaining faithful relationships of depth and substance
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what is the relationship of worldview and culture
worldview is within culture as the deepest level of presuppositions upon which people base their lives
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culture is likened to a
river with patterned behavior on top and worldview current below
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what does kraft call culturally appropriate churches
contextualized
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inculturate
churches forming that are both biblically and culturally appropriate
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indigenization
the process of incultuating in the lifes of people
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contextualization
expressing biblical truths so the the receptors will understand with their culture
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syncretism
the mixing of christian assumptions with worldview assumptions that are incompatible with Christianity so that the result is non biblical
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what is the risk of contextualization
syncretism
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what is a bicultural bridge
relationships between missionaries and individuals that connect more deeply than others
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culture shock
when all the cultural patterns we learned are now meaningless
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how should missionaries approach the local residents
like an elephant a water hole, use humility and as a learner
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three conditions that new missionaries should accept when bonding
1. willing to live with a local family
2. use only local public transportation
3. limit personal belonginfs ot 20 kilos
4. expect to carry out language learning in context of relationships
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when is it best to do bonding
when the participants are uniquely ready for the experience
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bonding v going native
going native is the rejection of ones first culture. bonding is a becultural individual with a healthy self image
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what is it called when a person rejcects their culture
going native
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how many people are practicing christians
1 of 8
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how many people are cut off from the godpel
2 billion
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when does the most effective type of evangelism occur
reaching out to friends, relatives, or others within their culture
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what are the four approaches to people group thinking
blocs of people, sociopeople,ethnolinguistic people, unimax people
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sociopeople
small association of peers who hace an affinity for one another based on a shared interest activity or occupation
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unimax people
maximum size group sufficiently unified to be the target of a single people movement to christ
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ethnolinguistic people
ethnic group distinguished by its self identity with traditions of descent, history, customs, and language
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culture blocs
limited number of summary categories into which we can place peoples in order to analyze them
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unreach people
a group with which there is no indigenour community of believing christians able to evangelize the group
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the essential missionary task
establish a viable indigenour church planting movement that carries the potential to renew whole extended families and transform whole societies
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what can we reasonably hope for in our lifetime
to see the body of christ established and growing in the language and social structure of every people group on earth in our lifetime
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10/40 window
the area between latitudes 10 and 40 north of the equator and between the atlantic and pacific oceans
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the number of unevangelized people in the 10/40 window
1.2 to 1.4 billion
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what percentage of the world is in the 10/40 window
65%
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what percentage of the worlds poorest is in the 10/40 windor
90%
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why did christianity succumb to isla in the upper nile
the fact that the bible was never translated into their language
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how many languages in the world
6912
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how many still need new testament translation work
2251
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what percentage of the world was urbanized by 2000
51%
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one of the challenges of recruiting missionaries to work in cities
working in cities doesn't have the romanticized hue that working in the country has
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three challenges to completing the task of covering the globe
geographic, ethnic, urban
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the major geographic challenge to covering the globe
10/40 window
