Intro to Missions
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- Church (in relation to Mission)
- The distinctive people of God called by Him through His mission and set aside for mission
- Ethnocentrism
- an attitude of cultural superiority which implies that one's own culture is better than some other culture
- Acculturation
- The process by which adults acuire the knowledge, skills, and values that enable them to become functioning participants of a new host culture
- Terminal Churches
- churches which may have spiritual vitality but can reproduce only arithmetically. Missionaries are teaching others but not training their converts to become reproductive
- Culture
- the integrated system of learning patterns of ideas and institutions characteristic of a society
- socially Defined Sins
- violations of culturally defined morals and laws that destroy social harmony
- Identification
- An empathy between communicants involving a compassionate, reciprical sharing of feelings and concepts
- Indigenous Church
- A native church which shares the life of the country in which it is planted and finds itself ready to govern itself, support, and reproduce itself
- Kingdom Theology
- The Biblical perception that God rules or reigns over the world He created
- Cross-Culturalism
- The learned skill of relating to people of other cultures within the contexts of their cultures
- 10/40 Window
- From ten to forty degrees north of the equator where the largest number of unreached people live.
- Paternalism
- The dominance of the sending culture over the mission process
- Church Planting
- Initiating reproductive fellowships that reflect the kingdom of God in the world
- Missions
- The plans of commited believers to accomplish the mission of God
- Etic
- an outsider's understanding of another culture
- World Christian
- a day-to-day disciple for whom Christ's global cause has become the integrating, overriding priority for all that He is for him
- Revitalization Movements
- Deliberate, conscious, organized efforts by members of a society to create a more satisfying culture
- Strategy
- The practical working out of the will of God within a cultural context
- Church Maturation
- Building up the body of Christ so that each part of the body supplies its gift or gifts to the whole
- Pluralism
- The coexistence within the one political community of groups who hold divergent and incompatible views with regard to religious questions
- Ethnodoxology
- The study of how and why people of diverse cultures glorify the true and living God
- Strategy Coordinator (as defined by the southern baptist convention)
- a missionary who takes responsibility for developing a comprehensive plan aimed at initiating and nurturing a Church planting movement
- E-1 Evangelism
- evangelism among people who speak the same general language as the missionary and have a similar cultural heritage
- Theologically defined sins
- Offenses that disrupt human relationships with God, gods, and spirits
- Church Nurturing
- the preparation to withstand the fire of Satan's persecution
- E-2 Evangelism
- evangelism describing Christian outreach to cultures that have some type of general similarity as that of the evangelist
- Cultural Relativity
- the anthropological perspective that cultures must be evaluated according to their own standards and those alone
- Enculturation
- the process by which children become functioning members of their own society
- Standard-Solution Strategies
- strategies which assume that methods that effectivelywork in one particular context will effectively work in other world contexts
- Syncretism
- The reshaping of Christian beleifs and practices through cultural accomidation so that they consciously or unconsciously blend with those of the dominant culture
- Missiology
- The study of salvation activities of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit throughout the world geared toward bringing the Kingdom of God into existence
- Monoculturalism
- The assumption that all other people are like us, resulting in the tendency in the tendency to judge other people 's actions and attitudes on the basis of our own.
- Contextualization
- The efforts of formulating, presenting, and practicing the Christian faith in such a way that is relevant to the cultural context of the target group
- Unreached People
- A people group among which there is no indigenous community of beleiving Christians and are not within reach of Christians of their own people
- Worldviews
- models of reality that shape cultural allegiances and provide interpretations of the world
- Receptivity
- The readiness of people to hear God's Word and accept His sovereignty
- Worldview Dissonance
- a major factor affecting peoples' receptivity to the Gospel occurring when people no longer accept as plausible the traditional beliefs and assumptions of their culture
- Evangelism
- The proclamation of salvation in Christ to those who do not believe in Him, calling them to repentance and conversion
- Emic
- an insider's understanding of his own culture. Missionaries must learn how insiders understand their own culture
- Church Planting Movement
- A rapid and exponential increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given people group
- E-3 Evangelism
- evangelism which takes place when missionaries teach those of a significantly different language and culture
- E-0 Evangelism
- evangelism among people who are currently church attendees, even members, but are not born again
- Nationalism
- a perspective that "my country is superior to yours"
- Cultural Validity
- The anthropological perspective that cultures are essentially equal to one another but are ultimately judged by God
- Incarnational Identification
- A model of ministry imitating that of Christ who became flesh and made his dwelling among us
- Unique-Solution Strategies
- strategies based on the assumption that cultures and situations are different and each one requires its own special strategy
- Worship
- An event and a lifestyle in which believers, by grace, center their mind's attention and their hearts's affection on the Lord, humbly glorifying God in response to His greatness
- Motives of Missions
- heart impulses and allegiances that lead missionaries and ministers into action and sometimes result in inaction
- Three-self Formula
- the theory of church maturation promoted by Rufus Anderson and Henery Venn during the last half of the nineteenth century advocating that "young churches on the mission field would gain their independence on the basis of self-support, self-propogation, and self-government
- Reentry Shock
- Cultural disorientation experienced when people return to their own country. This happens when both they and their home culture have changed significantly when they are on the mission field.
- Mission
- The work of God in reconciling sinful humankind to himself
- Theology of Mission
- a multidisciplinary field that reads the Bible with missiological eyes and, based on that reading, contiually reexamines, reevaluates, and redirects the Church's participation in God's mission in God's world