Lesson 1&2

Question 1

List seven (7) characteristics of the Apostolic church

Answer 1

a) Power of the Word
b) Worship
c) Holiness
d) Baptism
e) Power of the Spirit
f) Leadership
g) Mission

Question 2

List the three (3) chapters in the Bible that have no impact of sin

Answer 2

a) Genesis 1b) Genesis 2
c) Revelation 22

Question 3

What was the first murder triggered by?

Answer 3

Worship

Question 4

What two (2) things is God seeking to restore relationship with?

Answer 4

a) Humanity
b) Creation

Question 5

What is the guiding principle for all Scripture?

Answer 5

God created a world for relationship, but sin created breaches between God and humanity; ever since, God has been at work restoring all of creation back to Himself

Question 6

Michael Goheen views our role as a contrast people in what three (3) distinct directions?

Answer 6

a) Forward to the fulfillment of God’s kingdom
b) Backward to creation
c) Outward to the nations

Question 7

What are the three (3) aspects that we need to consider when thinking about the church?

Answer 7

a) What the church is (its nature or ontology [being])

b) What the church does (its mission or ministry)

c) What the church organises (its structure or organisation)

Question 8

When did the implements in the Tabernacle, that were made clean and dedicated to God, become holy?

Answer 8

Only once they were used

Question 9

Define the following words:
a) Ecclesiology
b) Eschatology
c) Missiology

Answer 9

a) The study of the church
b) The study of last things
c) The study of the church’s mission (especially with respect to missionary activity)

Question 10

Because the church goes into all the world, what will it often base its model of church governance on?

Answer 10

The type of leadership that is prevalent in each community

Question 11

Where does the church’s mission come from?

Answer 11

The One who creates, owns, and leads the church

Question 12

List four (4) things that God is using to bring to pass what He is doing at the end of time

Answer 12

a) Global economy
b) Technology
c) Migration patterns
d) Media

Question 13

Explain the difference between mission and missions

Answer 13

Mission is what God is doing in the world today using the church, whereas missions is often used to refer to one particular department of the church

Question 14

List the three (3) dimensions of truth and briefly define each

Answer 14

a) Orthodoxy (right doctrine)
b) Orthopraxy (right practice)
c) Orthopathy (right emotions)

Question 15

According to 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, what comes before the words of reconciliation?

Answer 15

The work of reconciliation

Question 16

Once a person’s basic life needs have been satisfied (food, shelter, fundamental relationships), what is the great need that eclipses nearly everything else?

Answer 16

To live on purpose

Question 17

What did Jesus help the disciples to realise about the storm while on the way to Gadara?

Answer 17

The storm wasn’t about them; it was about who was on the other side

Question 18

What freed Israel to do its missional work?

Answer 18

When its identity was transformed from an oppressed and enslaved people