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Flashcards by Julie Gholston, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Julie Gholston
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 1. Why did missionaries go to the field unprepared? | They believed that Jesus would return soon and there was no time for lengthy preparations. |
| 2. What type of missionary training was available at Central Bible Institute during this period of time? | Good biblical and spiritual preparation was available. CBI had little academic preparation in mission subjects. One course, called "Missions and Missionaries," was mainly a history of Christian missions. |
| 3. How were missionaries supported? | Individuals and churches sent their money to the General Council to forward to the designated missionary. Periodicals also sent money received from their readers to missionaries. |
| 4. What concession did the Executive Presbytery make for women missionaries? | They allowed women missionaries to fulfill the functions of the ministry if a man was not available - baptising, performing marriages, serving the Lord's Supper, and preaching funerals. |
| 5. How did World War I affect missionary activity? | Missionaries had difficulty with travel to the field. There was a lot of red tape. Passports were hard to obtain. Travel was risky. |
| 6. What was the effect on missionary activity immediately after the war? | Housing was difficult to find and very expensive. Rising costs put a strain on missionary funding. |
| 7. Why did missionaries feel they were helping God's eschatological plan? | They felt the responsibility to bring back Jesus by preaching to the ends of the earth. When they had accomplished this task, Jesus would come back. |
| 8. How did the 1921 General Council affect Assemblies of God missions? | It produced a six-point policy to guide the Foreign Missions Department. It defined support (cooperative faith), methods (seeking neglected areas), goals (develop indigenous churches), funding (through missionary hands), and standards for selection of new candidates. |
| 9. How did the mission-station approach create problems for the indigenous principle? | It hindered the development of a national church because everybody focused on the missionary and his or her lifestyle. |
| 10. How did people in the local churches respond to the need for mission funds? | They gave sacrificially. Sometimes they gave material things that were later converted into cash. |
| 11. How did the General Council prove its financial integrity with missions funds? | They printed a report in the Evangel. |
| 12. What policies came from the 1915 General Council? | Three policies for achieving the New Testament principle: 1. Examination of candidates by AG leaders. 2. Missionaries would be responsible to their local churches for support. 3. Support for missionaries should continue while they were on furlough. The same Council suggested travel overseas by the executives. |
| 13. How did policies change under J. Roswell Flower? | Flower actually implemented most of the 1915 policies that had never been put into effect. A representative was sent on a fact-finding tour of several mission fields. |
| 14. How did the new policies affect the missions program? | They produced better-trained, more responsible and cooperative missionaries. |
| 15. How did the idea of missionary itineration develop? | Faux saw the promotional value of missionary conventions. He invited George Kelly to conduct a series of conventions in the South. The idea was so successful that the Missions Department asked other furloughed missionaries to do the same thing. |
| 16. Describe the effect of the Second Missionary Conference on Pentecostal Sunday schools. | It promoted missions giving in the Sunday school. Children collected money for missions in little wooden barrels. |
| 17. What type of relationship did the General Council have with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada? | Many Canadians joined the AG in 1914. The AG missionary roster contained the names of both Canadian and US missionaries. For legal requirements, they separated into two missions agencies. Later in 1922, the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada was established. World missions work was divided among the two groups. |
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