Unit 2 Test Flashcards
- The goals of the indigenous principle were not achieved because of
failure to see missions work as the founding of a national church.
- The Christian and Missionary Alliance (CM was a strong missionary movement led by
A. B. Simpson.
- How did missionaries receive support in the early days?
Publications served as collecting agencies through which missionary funds were forwarded overseas.
- Which statement describes Assemblies of God missionaries in the early years?
Having no formal education, early missionaries learned the language and culture of the areas where they ministered.
- Many early missionaries were motivated to endure the hardships of missionary work because of their belief that
preaching the gospel to all the world would bring Jesus back.
- Regarding the administration of Assemblies of God missions, the 1915 General Council decided that
standards for testing candidate missionaries would be examined by Council leaders.
- Identify a missionary policy that was instituted under J. Roswell Flower’s administration.
New missionaries were required to appear in person before the Foreign Missions Committee.
- Identify the principle delineated by the 1921 General Council that would be used to guide Assemblies of God Foreign Missions.
The indigenous principle
- The 1931 Missions Manual included
all General Council missions policies instituted before 1931.
- Which statement best describes the response of Assemblies of God missions to World War II?
Assemblies of God missions concentrated on noncombatant areas such as Central and South America.
- A major goal of the 1943 Missionary Conference involved
the Foreign Missions Department’s sending five hundred newly trained and experienced missionaries.
- Missions leaders (in 1953) showed a shift in thinking. Which best states this shift?
They added humanitarian goals to the list of evangelism goals.
- Ministry in local churches by missionaries on furlough results in
lasting relationships between the churches and the missionaries they support.
- A missionary faith promise is a
promise to give a specific amount to missions, trusting God for the resources.
- According to the text, a benefit of literature in evangelism is that
literature can be distributed to nearly everyone, not just to those who attend a meeting.
- Which phrase best describes the shift in the role of the missionary in response to nationalism?
from overseer to adviser
- Which area was identified by Philip Hogan as the “greatest missionary challenge of the time”?
The major population centers
- In what way did armed forces personnel play a part in church planting?
Finding locations for churches when the base facilities were full
- What did Morris Williams advocate regarding the missionary’s role in relationship to the national church?
Partnership
- The Task Force campaigns proved to be very effective. They were begun out of a need to
speed up church planting in Paraguay.
- Which would be a ministry of the AGUSM?
Ministry to those with life-controlling problems
- What is the requirement for an applicant who desires to begin the process to become a U.S. missionary?
Ministerial credentials
- Identify one of the programs of the AGWM.
Life Publishers International
- It is necessary to have Intercultural Ministries in AGUSM because
America is the most ethnically diverse nation in the world.
- The establishment of Western colonial empires affected American foreign missions by
giving missionaries access to areas that had been closed to Christianity.
