Chapter 3 Test Flashcards
Worship is a product of the … , …, and the … of the different historical periods.
-philosophies, changes, emphasis
- When the church was young and struggling for survival, leaders were required to:
a. exhort
b. edify
c. and encourage the …
-believers
- When the church no longer struggled for existence, leaders spent more energy:
a. defending the …
b. attacking error in doctrine
c. interpreting scripture
d. and shaping …
- faith
- theology
There were many heated discussions about the …, and about divine versus the human nature of Christ.
-Trinity
At Nicea in 325, Constantine gathered leaders from many different religious families together for the first time in history, to discuss and make decisions. This gathering became known as the … of ,,,
-Council of Nicea
No denomination, movement or action was completely … of others. The choices of generations before as well as the current church culture have shaped and influenced the … through the centuries.
- independent
- Church
IMPORTANT:
Some of the major factors in church history include the liturgical developments of the fourth and fifth centuries, the Eastern and Western division, the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the evangelical 1800’s, the … movement and the plethora of modern period churches and movements including the UPCI.
- Pentecostal
Throughout the past two thousand years. Christian worship has seen a continuous process of development and change in response to … and … factors. But, with this evolution, each period of worship renewal aspired to reach back to the Apostolic principles and practices of the … … church .
- theological
- cultural
- New Testament
The biblical account given to us during the first century of this infant church, after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, should always be the standard of liturgy and … practices of the Christian Church.
- worship
The churches of the apostles, when the canonical books of the New Testament were being written, have an … that no other period in history can match.
-authority
Jesus and His early followers came from a … heritage. The cultural implication of Judaism influenced early Christian worship and underlies Christian worship to this day.
- Jewish
… concludes his gospel by mentioning that after the resurrection, the followers of Christ “stayed continually at the temple, praising God” (Luke 24:53, NIV).
- Luke
White emphasizes that the worship of the early church are influenced by their Jewish heritage by stating that , “Christians may have turned the world upside down but in the form and content of their worship it was still recognizably a … world.
- Jewish
The various Jewish rites of ritual purification and in John’s baptism of repentance were the origins of the Christian baptism. Christian baptism differs from its antecedents in some important respects.
- It is baptism in the name of ... signifying a belonging to Him. - It is associated with the gifting of the ... Spirit. - Baptism symbolizes a participation in Christ's ... and resurrection and a new ... as the people of God.
- Jesus
- Holy
- death
- covenant
Baptism seemed to be the primary means of identifying new Christian …
- converts
Baptism becomes the response expected from the … preaching. Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost may be the best example.
- apostolic
The earliest baptism formula was baptism “in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 19:5, NKJV) This is corroborated in Acts 2:38, Acts 8:16, and Acts 22:16. Sometime after the first century church the formula began to be replaced by the … formula, “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”.
- Trinitarian
Bernard’s book Oneness and Trinity show that the doctrine of the Trinity developed over a lengthy period of time, from the early second to the late … century.
- fourth
There is no direct evidence for the baptism of … in the New Testament churches, but there is also no clear … requirement given. Those who are disinclined to baptize infants cite scripture passages such as “Anyone who … and is baptized will be saved” (Mark 16:16, NLT).
- infants
- age
- believes
In the third century, Tertullian in North Africa writes On Baptism (about 200), the first treatise on the sacrament. “Tertullian taught that at water baptism the believer has his sins … away, is born in water, and is prepared for the Holy Spirit.
- washed
Tertullian taught baptism by … and disapproved of infant baptism. “ For the early Fathers being, ‘born again’ and regenerated’ are through baptism”. They strongly believed that, in the words of Tertullian, ‘no one can attain … without baptism.
- immersion
- salvation
By the fourth century, baptisms coincided with the time and day of the resurrection. A long period of preparation and training preceded the baptism called …(kat-i-kyoo-muh-neyt) that could last up to three years.
- catechumenate
Those chosen to receive baptism each year (the elect) underwent intensive preparation including further examination of lifestyle and daily exorcisms. Baptism including the laying of hands and always culminated with the …
- Eucharist
In the fourth century, initiation was firmly into the paschal celebration with the baptism coinciding with the time and day of the … It came after a long period of preparation and training, both ethical and creedal, and always culminated in the Eucharist.
- Resurrection
-
The five hundred years after the New Testament period saw enormous … in every aspect of Christian worship.
- changes
The washing away of sin at baptism was considered a gift of … removing the penalties of sin.
- grace
During the Middle Ages, baptism of … is the primary form of baptism to cancel the guilt of original sin. The decline in baptism by immersion is reflected in the gradual shrinking in the size of the baptismal …
- infants
- fonts
The Anabaptists believed that the clearest sign of a pure church is when its members join by deliberate …, not because they were baptized as an infant.
-choice
Menno Simmons ( 1496-1561):
He concluded “ we have not a single command in Scriptures that infants are to be baptized, or that the apostles practiced it, therefore we confess with good sense that infant baptism is nothing but human … and notion. Adherents to Simmons and this movement in the Netherlands became known as …
- invention
- Mennonites
Baptism wasn’t abolished, it was just no longer required. It was a … act, but not required for the remission of sin.
- spiritual
The UPC insists on the earlier baptismal formula, “in the name of the Lord Jesus” ( Acts 19:5 NKJV), preached and practiced by the … in the original church found in the Book of Acts.
- Apostles
After baptism, the Lord’s Supper became one of the most important aspects of New Testament … During the New Testament period, the Lord’s Supper appears to have been not a liturgy in the modern sense, but an actual …, or a portion of one shared by members of the Christian community.
- worship
- meal
When Jesus instituted the “new covenant” He declared that the bread and the cup were the representations of His … and …
- body
- blood
Holy Communion speaks to our … with God.
- relationship
In the New Testament itself, we already see … …. within the substantial unity which becomes an important characteristic of Christian Worship.
- regional variances
About 155 A.D, Justin Martyr, in Rome, describes the Eucharist as occurring “on the day called Sunday”. … is the Greek word for “giving thanks”. The early church was soon using the term Eucharist to indicate …
- Eucharist
- communion
The water signifies inner baptism, the milk and honey signifies the promised land, and the wine the blood of Christ. The cup of milk and honey seems to have disappeared pretty soon afterward, but the water and wine has endured, signifying the … of people with Christ.
- union
Middle Ages:
- For various reasons, most people began to receive communion … frequently.
- less
In the twelfth century, …, the term to describe what Christians believe they experience in the Eucharist ( the bread and wine become the actual body of Christ) began to be used. During the middle ages, “popular piety” according to White, “always seemed to prefer … to philosophical explanations”.
- transubstantiation
- miraculous
The medieval period saw significant changes in the pastoral rites. The … became more and more essential and priests came to acquire power and control over both penance and healing.
- clergy