Statistics
According to Joshua Project, roughly how many people groups are there in the world today? (This number counts the people group once for each country they are in).
16,000 or 17,000 (the number on their website is currently 16,405)
As defined in this class, a missionary is:
a cross-cultural evangelist.
19th century English shoemaker, preacher, missionary, Bible translator, preached a famous sermon on Isaiah 45:2-3 titled "expect great things from God, attempt great things for God", known as the father of modern missions.
William Carey
According to Paul Hiebert, what is the difference between culture stress and culture shock?
Culture stress is the reaction we have when we enter a new culture. Culture shock is the disorientation of realizing that this new culture is your life and home, and that you know less about living here than the local children.
According to Joshua Project, what percentage of the world's population are part of an unreached people group? Round to the nearest percent.
44% (43.8%)
As defined by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization in March 1982, an unreached people group is:
a people group with no indigenous community of believing Christians able to evangelize this people group
(typically less than 2% of the people group identify as evangelical Christian)
20th century American missionary to Latin American, said "the greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue", translated the Bible into Cakchiquel, founded the organization Wycliffe Bible Translators.
William Cameron Townsend
What are the 5 major unreached cultural blocs, represented by the acronym THUMB?
Tribal
Hindu
Unreligious
Muslim
Buddhist
According to Statista, what percentage of the world identifies as Muslim? Round to the nearest percent.
25 or 26% (25.6%)
As defined by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism in March 1982, for evangelistic purposes, what is a people group?
The largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance.
5th century Roman-British missionary who, despite being kidnapped and enslaved in Ireland at age 16, returned to Britain as a bishop to convert thousands of pagans.
St. Patrick
In Donald Larson's article "Closing the Gap", he says that their often a wide gap between a missionary's conception of his/her role and how it is viewed by his/her adopted community. He argues that the best role for a missionary to assume in closing this gap is that of a:
sincere learner.
What percentage of the world's missionaries are working to reach an unreached people group? Round to the nearest percent.
3% or 4% (3.4%)
An Iraqi Arab Muslim man coming to Grace Presbyterian church is an example of which cultural distance category? (on the E-scale/P-scale)
P3 - he is a potential believer entering a foreign community where the people are very different from himself. He will likely encounter many barriers, including the language being spoken, the casual nature of the community, the clothes and shoes being worn, the mixed-gender interactions, the music, the posture of worshipers, the lack of purification rituals, etc.
15th century priest who publicly condemned the corruption of the clergy and promoted the translation of Scripture. He was excommunicated and burned at the stake, quoted as saying "you can roast this goose, but in 100 years, God will raise up a swan you will not be able to burn or silence!"
Jan Hus
In Samuel Voorhies' article "Transformational Development", he describes four approaches to development. List three of them.
Economic Growth
Relief
Political Advocacy
Transformational Development
According to The Traveling Team, how many evangelical Christians are there in the world for each unreached people group? Round to the nearest thousand.
57,000 (57,053)
What question does a worldview seek to answer?
What are the three major worldviews?
What is real?
Honor-Shame
Guilt-Innocence
Fear-Power
20th century missionary to China, operated an Inn where she did story-telling ministry with traveling muleteers, took in hundreds of orphan children, ministered to prisoners during World War 2, was known by her Chinese name meaning "the virtuous one."
Gladys Aylward
In the "Analysis of Missionary Humility" section of the Willowbank Report, the authors consider five aspects of missionary humility. Name 2 of them.
1. Humility acknowledges that culture presents a barrier to communication.
2. Humility takes the trouble to understand, appreciate, and enter into dialogue with the cultures to which we go.
3. Humility begins with the needs and issues that the recipient people feel are important.
4. Humility recognizes the superior potential of local Christians to communicate in their culture.
5. Humility relies on the Holy Spirit, the chief Communicator, to open the eyes of the blind.