Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
99 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What kept early missions from occuring. One main issue.
|
State Churches; the territorial church
|
|
|
What was a hinderance against missions for Jim Carey during his lifetime.
|
Hyper-Calvinism and also a lack of spiritual vitality and zeal. Political Support
|
|
|
Who wrote An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to use means for the conversion of the Heathen.
|
William Carey
|
|
|
What did William Care do for a living?
|
Cobbler
|
|
|
What was the first mission society called? and where was it?
|
Baptist Missionary Society
|
|
|
Who was Andrew Fuller and Dr John Thomas?
|
The other two missionaries that went with William Carey
|
|
|
Who are the unsung heros of early missions?
|
The missionary wives
|
|
|
When was the "Great Century"?
|
1792-1910
|
|
|
The Father of the Missionary Movement
|
William Carey
|
|
|
What denomination in America did missions start in?
|
Congregationalists
|
|
|
American Missions started at improv meeting called?
|
The Haystack Prayer Meeting
|
|
|
In 1810 the first foreign missions board was started in the US. What was its name?
|
American Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions
|
|
|
The first missionaries to be sent out by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was ...
|
Adoniram Judson, his wife Ann and Luther Rice.
|
|
|
How did the Judson's and Rice get involved with the Baptists?
|
They started to read the scriptures on the way to India and realized that Baptists had it right with immersion. So they became Baptists.
|
|
|
What was the Triennial Convention for Missions?
|
A united group of all the baptist missionary societies called the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denominaty in the USA. They named it Triennial b/c it met one time every three years.
|
|
|
What was Luther Rice's initial assignment with missions?
|
To start societies to raise money for the judsons
|
|
|
Does the North or South want Societies?
|
North
|
|
|
Does the North or South want a Convention?
|
South
|
|
|
What is a society?
|
An individual-based approach, with a single-ministry focus
|
|
|
What is a convention?
|
A body composed essentially of churches, who cooperate tother to minister in a variety of areas: foreign missions, home missions, publications adn theological educaiton.
|
|
|
What is an advantage of the convention structure?
|
It avoides the duplication of effort and organization of a multiplicity of societies and provides a means of formulating a centralized budget.It affirms the belief that the church is the main way God's will will be brought about
|
|
|
What are the advantages of a society?
|
A simpler, less involved denominational structure, a clear focus, and a committed membership supporting the ministry. Support raising is more personal.
|
|
|
Who was the first home missionary appointed by the Baptist Convention?
|
John Peck to Missouri
|
|
|
Who was responsible for Columbian College and it's failure?
|
Luther Rice
|
|
|
Who was a big supporter of formal theological education for Baptists?
|
Furman
|
|
|
Who was the first president of the Triennial Convention and who were the first leaders?
|
Richard Furman, Wayland and Luther Rice
|
|
|
What was one of the initial reasons for North and South Baptists to separate?
|
Missions
|
|
|
What caused the convention to return to a society.
|
1. missions support was weakening b/c of other ministries starting; the failure of Columbian college 2. the fear of the Church not have a right in the convention
|
|
|
Why did the North like Socities?
|
The North was much more decentralized, with a tradition of distrust of centralized power and individual, direct participation, dating from the American Revolution and before. Democratic society.
|
|
|
Why did the South like the conventions?
|
The south was used to centralized structures, with the plantaion a common model--all functions operated under the same umbrella.
|
|
|
Northern Baptist greatest fear with the convention?
|
Associations infringing or limiting the autonomy and independence of the local church.
|
|
|
The favorite Confession of Faith for the Landmarkism?
|
New Hampshire, b/c it did not mention the universal church.
|
|
|
Who were two well-known leaders for the
anti-missionary stance? |
Daniel Parker and Alexander Campbell
|
|
|
Who was perhaps the biggest enemy of missions?
|
Daniel Parker
|
|
|
What were the "Two seed in the Spirit Predestination Baptists"?
|
A group lead by Daniel Parker that were Hyper-Calvinism in beliefe, alot like the Baptists in England the century before.
|
|
|
What were the "two fuels" to the Anti-missions sentiments.
|
The first fuel was Strict "biblicism" meaning if it is not specifically taught in the Bible it isn't right and the second fuel was jealousy.
|
|
|
What areas did the Anti-missions sentiment thrive?
|
Frontier Areas
|
|
|
Thy did frontier areas seem to grow anti-mission sentiments.
|
Most mission societies were in big cities in the east where there was money, yet they asked the poor churches in the frontier for funds; the lack of educated pasters in the west.
|
|
|
What was the final factor that split the Baptist North and South?
|
Slavery
|
|
|
When was the SBC started.
|
May 1845 in Augusta, GA.
|
|
|
W.B. Johnson was known for what in the SBC.
|
Coming up with the convention structure.
|
|
|
What two ways did the SBC keep the society structure?
|
1. The basis of representation
2. Lack of a means of central collection and distribution of funds. |
|
|
How were the problems of collectin, distribution and representation taken care of in the SBC?
|
The Cooperative Program
|
|
|
What must a church do to be a part of the SBC?
|
Give to the cooperative program
|
|
|
In the first 50 years of the SBC four benevolent objects were addressed, what were they?
|
Foreign Missions; Home Missions; Publication of Literature and Theological Education.
|
|
|
Charlotte Diggs Moon
|
Lotty Moon
|
|
|
What is the WMU?
|
Women's Missionary Union that is an auxilary of the SBC that helps fund missionaries and other things.
|
|
|
What was the SBC's Missionary Orginization called?
|
The Foreign Mission Board
|
|
|
What offering helped the FMB get through the civil war, lack of funds and anti-missionism?
|
The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
|
|
|
Who was I.T. Tichenor?
|
He was the president of the Home Mission Board in the late 19th century that challenged the Northern Baptist's work in the South.
|
|
|
Of the four SBC developments in the first 50 years which one came last? Foreign Missions, Home Missions,Publications or Theological Education?
|
Publications or the Sunday School Board - Now Lifeway
|
|
|
What kept the Baptist Sunday School Board from forming earlier other than the Civil War?
|
The division between landmarkists and anti-landmarkists.
|
|
|
Who was J.M. Frost?
|
He had a dream "vision" to try to start a Board of Publications again. And did.
|
|
|
What two things did the SS Board do for the SBC?
|
It brought a denomination identity and unity.
|
|
|
Where was the first Baptist Seminary located?
|
At Furman University in South Carolina.
|
|
|
Who was the first president of the seminary at Furman?
|
J.P.Boyce
|
|
|
What is the name of the oldest SBC confessional statement signed by the faculty at SEBTS.
|
The Abstract of Principals
|
|
|
What were J.P Boyce's principles about seminary?
|
1. Broadly Accessable
2. Academically challenging track that was needed to fight off the liberalism coming from Europe 3.The need to provide a doctrinal standard that would anchor the seminary from drifing doctrinally |
|
|
The seminary at Furman moved in 1877 to where because of financial reasons?
|
Louisville, KY
|
|
|
Who was engaged to Lottie Moon twice and was eventually kicked out of Southern Seminary for his doctrine
|
C.H. Toy
|
|
|
What two things must be learned from the C.H. Toy Contriversy?
|
The attitude we need to tak in protecting doctrinal fidelity and the action we need to take.
|
|
|
What three things are most important to know about Landmarkism?
|
1.Only Baptist Churches are true churches
2.The true church is a local visible institution - not the universal church 3. Only a true church can do churchly acts: baptism, communion, preaching (missions) (no IMB). |
|
|
What was one of the main strives behind the Landmarkism movement?
|
To set themselves apart from the Campbellites
|
|
|
What person was at the center of the Landmark controversy?
|
J.R. Graves
|
|
|
What was the Landmarkists biggest problems with the SBC?
|
Ecclesiological, even though they didn't truly understand the SBC's theological foundations.
|
|
|
Who was R.B.C. Howell?
|
The pastor of First Baptist Nashville where Graves was a member. Graves was ousted from the church for spreading slander and started the "True" Baptist Church of Nashville.
|
|
|
Landmarkism can be stated today as the ________ or sleeping giant.
|
Lingering Ghost
|
|
|
Three key orginizational developements in the SBC of the 20th Century.
|
1. The executive board
2. The Cooperative Program 3. Basis of reprisentation(who can join the SBC) |
|
|
The key word in this era of the SBC has been?
|
Efficiency
|
|
|
What is the average state percentage sent to the cooperative program?
|
64%
|
|
|
How is the Cooperative Programs money divided at the national level?
|
50% IMB
22.79% NAMB 21.64% The six seminaries Christian Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Guidestone and SBC Operations. |
|
|
What was the name of the program in the 1930's that got the SBC out of debt?
|
The 100,000 Club.
|
|
|
Most churches that are joining the SBC are not white churches but . . .
|
Language churches and ethnic churches
|
|
|
Who was Arthur Rutledge
|
He made major progress in turning NAMB into a cooperative mission program rather than a direct mission program.
|
|
|
Sunday school should be used to reach, as well as teach. What did this idea produce.
|
The F.A.I.T.H program
|
|
|
What is one of the major challenges facing Lifeway in the near future?
|
Small Groups
|
|
|
What are the names of the 6 seminaries?
|
SWBTS; NOBTS; SBTS; GGBTS; SWBTS; MWBTS
|
|
|
Many Baptist colleges have left the cooperative program and have...
|
Started their own seminaries
|
|
|
What is the Annuity Board Called now?
|
Guidestone Financial Rescources
|
|
|
What tradition supports Theological education?
|
The Charleston
|
|
|
Name other orginizations affiliated with the SBC.
|
Annuity Board or Guidestone;
Christian Life Commission, or now called Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; WMU |
|
|
Why are there SBC churches all over the USA and CANADA?
|
Immigration
|
|
|
What is the percentage of members that are still in the "old south"?
|
75%
|
|
|
What is "Doctrinal Development or Creeping Creedalism referring to?
|
The contriversy started by J. Frank Norris (fundamentalist)that questioned the teaching of evolution in the seminaries that brought about the adoption of the NH Confession in 1925.
|
|
|
What matters are most important with keeping the SBC unified and doctrinal?
|
Charity and Humility
|
|
|
Who was more responsible for the fundamental movement in Baptists; North or South?
|
North
|
|
|
Northern Baptist Convention or the American Baptist divided into afew groups...
|
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches;
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society; Conservative Baptist Association of America |
|
|
What man's controversy over fundamentalism and modernism caused teh writing of the Baptist Faith and Message in 1925?
|
J. Frank Norris
|
|
|
Fundamentalist characteristics
|
1.Legalism, harshness and unwillingness to accept any diverity in theology
2.Very indipendent form other churches 3.Scripture or more popularly premillennialism |
|
|
Who is the National Baptist Convention?
|
The oldest Black Baptist orginization.
|
|
|
What are Baptists like around the world?
|
Like the Baptists here used to be.
|
|
|
What was John Clark known for?
|
Was a stable leader after Roger Williams
|
|
|
Who started the first Baptist Church in the South?
|
William Screven
|
|
|
Who was converted by his own preaching?
|
Elias Keach
|
|
|
Where was the first Baptist association in America?
|
Philadelphia
|
|
|
Who was responsible for the 2nd London Confession to be adopted in the US?
|
Benjamin and Elias Keach
|
|
|
Who were four major people involved in the Great Awakening?
|
Voltaire, Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf; John Wesley; Jonathan Edwards
|
|
|
What was a hinderance to evangelism in the 17th Century?
|
Hyper-calvinism
|
|
|
Deism, skepticism and the Enlightenment were countered by?
|
Pietism, methodism and the great awakening
|
