missions midterm
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- Church, Secularized
- a church which concerns itself only with this-worldly activities and interests.
- 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 Christians.
- E-2 Evangelism
- An intermediate category between E-1 and E-3 evangelism describing Christian outreach to cultures that have some type of general similarity as that of the evangelist.
- Evangelism
- The proclamation of salvation in Christ to those who do not believe in Him, calling them to repentance and conversion, announcing forgiveness of sin, and inviting them to become living members of Christ's earthly community and to begin a life of service to other in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Identification
- An empathy between communicants involving a compassionate, interpersonal, reciprocal sharing of feelings and concepts.
- 10/40 Window
- the slice of the world extending from ten to forty degrees north of the equator and stretching from North Africa through the Middle East to China and Japan where the largest number of unreached people live
- Church Maturation
- Building up the body of Christ so that each part of the body supplies its gift or gifts to the whole. It is the process of bringing individual Christians and the Christian community as a whole to maturity. It implies that new believers must be taught how a Christian worldview shapes and influences all facets of life. the gifts of the body are to be joined together so that each part does its function.
- Culture
- The integrated system of learned patterns of ideas, values, behavior, products and institutions characteristic of a society.
- Ethnocentrism
- An attitude of cultural superiority which implies that one's own culture is better than some other culture. It is the basis of racism, nationalism, and tribalism.
- Church Planting
- Initiating reproductive fellowships that reflect the kingdom of God in the world
- Etic
- The term developed by Kenneth Pike for an outsider's understanding of another culture. In religious anthropoogy, these perspectives provide broad classifications to categorize spiritual phenomena.
- Church (in relation to missions)
- the distinctive people of God called by Him through His mission and set aside for mission
- Imitative Magic
- The animistic belief that imitating a desired outcome causes it to happen.
- Development, Transformational
- Seeking positive change in the whole of human life materially, socially, and spiritually.
- Cross-Culturalism
- The learned skill of relating to people of other cutures within the contexts of their cultures.
- Enculturation
- The process by which children become functioning members of their own society.
- Church Planting Movement
- A rapid and exponential increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given people group or population segment.
- Cultural Validity
- The anthropological perspective that cultures are essentially equal to one another but are ultimately judged by God.
- Culture Relativity
- The anthropological perspective that cultures must be evaluated according to their own standards and those alone.
- Acculturation
- The process by which adults acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and behaviors that enable them to become functioning participants of a new host culture.
- E-1 Evangelism
- Evangelism among people who speak the same general language as the missionary and have a similar cultural heritage.
- Contextualization
- The efforts of formulating, presenting and practicing the Christian faith in such a way that it is relevant to the cultural context of the target group in terms of conceptualization, expression and application; yet maintaining theological coherance, biblical integrity and theoretical consistency.
- Church Nurturing
- Building up the body of Christ so that each part supplies its gift or gifts to the whole; the process of bringing individual Christians and the Christian community as a whole to maturity; the preparation to withstand the fire of satan's persecution...relationally mentoring new believers to live out Christian principles in their lives
- Ethnodoxology
- The study of how and why people of diverse cultures glorify the tru and living God.
- Emic
- the term develope by Kenneth Pike for an insider's understanding of his own culture. Missionaries must learn how insiders understand their own culture.