missiology final

Question 1

Who coined the word the “Great Commission?”

Answer 1

not certain

Question 2

The great commission represents the shift “from a centripetal mission—up to Jerusalem—to a centrifugal mission—go therefore___________ from this place.

Answer 2

out

Question 3

Who in the church has the responsibility of participating in the Great Commission?

Answer 3

Every Christian

Question 4

Various religions think of God differently, but each has a large enough portion of the truth, so followers of different religions should be tolerant and excepting of all beliefs.

Answer 4

false

Question 5

What does the Great Commission imply regarding other religions?

Answer 5

Other religions do not provide infallible books to know the one true God.

Question 6

The comprehensive nature of Jesus’s authority is indicated by the word “____________________.”

Answer 6

all

Question 7

Which verb(s) or activities should be associated with the Great Commission? Select all that apply.

Answer 7

Going

Teaching

Making Disciples

baptizing

Question 8

Going and evangelizing are important, but they are not the goal.

Answer 8

true

Question 9

Most modern New Testament scholars and missiologists agree that the term ________________does not refer to modern nation-states in the way the term “nation” connotes today.

Answer 9

ethnē

Question 10

According to the authors, there is a commission to go, and a commission to make converts.

Answer 10

false

Question 11

D. A. Carson rightly notes, “The New Testament can scarcely conceive of a disciple who is not baptized or is not instructed.”

Answer 11

true

Question 12

According to Akin, which is not one of the “Basic commands of Jesus?”

Answer 12

go to church

Question 13

In what way will Jesus continue to be present with his future disciples?

Answer 13

through the Holy Spirit

Question 14

What is the antithesis of gospel fruit, and thus should be avoided at all cost?

Answer 14

legalism

Question 15

Paul spoke of the pastoral nurture of congregations as a form of what?

Answer 15

gardening

Question 16

What is a faithful restatement of the gospel with rich implications for life, ministry and mission in a type of culture at a moment in history?

Answer 16

theological vision

Question 17

It is ok to use a specific ministry method without asking how your doctrinal beliefs relate to the modern world.

Answer 17

false

Question 18

Which are the reasons Keller chose the term “Center Church?”

Answer 18

the theological vision is a the center of ministry

the gospel is at its center

the center is the place of balance

the geological vision is shaped by th and for urban and cultural centers

Question 19

The Center Church theological vision can be expressed most simply in all of the following except which term?

Answer 19

system

Question 20

Everything taught in the Bible can be considered “the gospel.”

Answer 20

false

Question 21

Which are considered to be the equal and opposite enemies to the gospel?

Answer 21

antinomianism

irreligion

moralism

religion

legalism

relativism

Question 22

What is the reason things went so wrong in the world?

Answer 22

sin

Question 23

According to Keller, how are things put right in the world?

Answer 23

faith

Question 24

The Bible’s story line tells us the following?

Answer 24

creation, fall, redemption, restoration

Question 25

What is not a historical curiosity; it is a constant pattern of how the Holy Spirit works in a community to counteract the default mode of the human heart?

Answer 25

revival

Question 26

Revival consists not only of the renewal of true believers but also the _______________ of those within the covenant community who are only nominal believers.

Answer 26

conversion

Question 27

Which is not one of the three ways to respond to God according to Keller?

Answer 27

reason

Question 28

How we can bring the gospel home to the people so they can see its power and implications?

Answer 28

a church recovers the gospel through preaching inject an experiential element into is small group ministry using the gospel in pastoral counseling training lay leaders who minister the gospel to others conversation

Question 29

What are the characteristics that define preaching for gospel renewal?

Answer 29

Preach both the holiness and the love of God to convey the richness of grace Preach Christ from every text Preach not only to make the truth clear but also to make it real Preach to distinguish between religion and the gospel Preach to both Christians and non-Christians at once

Question 30

What shows people how the plot lines of the stores of their lives can only find a happy ending in Christ?

Answer 30

sound contextualization

Question 31

According to Keller, contexualizing makes many people in conservative theological circles nervous and it should.

Answer 31

true

Question 32

The subject of contextualization is particularly hard to grasp for members of which groups?

Answer 32

socially dominant

Question 33

When we approach the biblical text, we come with a "pre-understanding," a set of already established beliefs about the subjects addressed in the Bible.

Answer 33

true

Question 34

If the Bible is seen as a ___________________product of human culture, then we are locked in an endless interpretive circle that goes back and forth between our culture and the Bible.

Answer 34

fallible

Question 35

The Bible gives us a basic formula for contextualization and shows us how to keep a balance between which two approaches to culture?

Answer 35

affirming, confronting

Question 36

Paul speaks of a stumbling block called what in the Corinthian church?

Answer 36

skandalone

Question 37

What are the motivations when appealing to non-Christians to believe the gospel?

Answer 37

simply out of a desire to be loved for help with a problem out of a desire for release from burdens of guilt and shame out of fear of judgment and death out of appreciation for the"attractiveness of truth" to satisfy unfulfilled existential longings

Question 38

When it comes to contextualization, Keller says most Christian leaders are what?

Answer 38

ignorant of the very idea of contextualization naively against it for it but don't know how to do it

Question 39

Which people make decisions and arrive at convictions through insight and experience?

Answer 39

Intuitional

Question 40

What derives from a seventeenth-century movement within the church in German-speaking Central Europe, in which the emphasis moved from doctrinal precision to spiritual experience, from clergy-led efforts to lay ministry, and from efforts to reform the intellectual and social order to emphasis on evangelistic mission and personal discipleship?

Answer 40

pietism

Question 41

Which movement called Christians to engage and change culture by carrying out their vocations from a distinctively Christian worldview?

Answer 41

Kuyperian

Question 42

Which model engages culture largely through an emphasis on Christians pursuing their vocations from a Christian worldview and thereby changing culture?

Answer 42

transformationist

Question 43

The animating idea behind the which model is that God's Spirit is at work in the culture to further his kingdom?

Answer 43

relevence

Question 44

Which Model teaches that God rules all of creation, but he does so in two distinct ways?

Answer 44

two kindgoms

Question 45

According to Keller, each model contains limited truth about the relationship of the gospel to culture. However, each alone can give us the full picture of the gospel.

Answer 45

false

Question 46

The biblical material calls for a balance not of compromises but of "being controlled simultaneously and all the time" by all of the teaching in Scripture

Answer 46

true

Question 47

Which approach seeks to blend the cultural and biblical insights of all the models into our actual practice and ministry?

Answer 47

center church

Question 48

Which of the four seasons does Ralph Niebuhr say the church is in today? Not that is becoming increasingly marginalized in a post-Christian culture?

Answer 48

autmn

Question 49

According to Keller, we are not chasing our Christ and culture model in the right way. What are the suggestions he gives to choose the right one?

Answer 49

Avoid arrogance Avoid frustration Avoid blame Avoid naïveté

Question 50

What are the traits of a missional church?

Answer 50

being reciprocal being incarnational being contextual being evangelistic

Question 51

What word has significantly different meanings and is used in different ways by different authors, organizations and churches--leading to much confusion about what it actually means?

Answer 51

missional

Question 52

What is the idea that "to be missional is to be _____________" is too narrow?"

Answer 52

evangelistic

Question 53

A church can robustly preach and teach the classical evangelical doctrines and still be missional.

Answer 53

true

Question 54

Which are the marks of a Missional Church?

Answer 54

The church must confront societies idols The church must be counterculturefor the common good The church must itself be contextualized and should expect nonbelievers inquirers, and seekers to be involved in most aspects of the church's life and ministry The church must contextualize skillfully and a communicate in the vernacular The church must practice unity The church must equip people in mission and in every area of their lives

Question 55

According to Keller which organizations that have no movement dynamics are like a person on a life support machine?

Answer 55

churches, church

Question 56

In what book(s) is/are planting churches not a traumatic or unnatural event?

Answer 56

acts

Question 57

The way to renew the existing churches of a city is by planting new ones.

Answer 57

true

Question 58

Which are the parts of the gospel ecosystem according to Keller?

Answer 58

Contextualized theological vision Specialized ministries Church planting and church renewal movements