Mission Of The Church

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Alopen was the first known Christian missionary to enter

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China

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According to the second century Church father ___ the love of the Christians for one another and their concern for the poor was a great witness to unbelievers

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Tertullian

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At the first Christian Council in ___ the Church leaders affirmed that salvation is provided only through the incarnation, death, burial and resurrection of Christ, therefore Gentiles did not need to become Jews to be saved. This freed the Church from the Jewish culture and opened the door for the peoples of all cultures to be saved.

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Jerusalem

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Emperor ___ ended the persecution against Christians in Rome after seeing a vision of a cross of light in the sky before a great battle. He went on to support the Church and eventually the Council of Nicea to settle the doctrinal issue of Arianism which denied that Christ was eternal and equal with God.

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Constantine

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Emperor ___ made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire and ended the toleration of non-Christian religions and pagan sacrifices in the Roman Empire.

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Theodosius

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Pope Gregory the Great became the first bishop of Rome to initiate a mission to non-Christians when he sent the monk ___ to reach the Anglo-Saxon invaders from Britain.

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Augustine

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A British youth named ___ was captured by Irish priests and held as a slave for 6 years. Later after returning home he saw a vision of the people of Ireland saying with one voice, "We ask you, boy, come and walk once more among us." As a result he returned to Ireland as a missionary.

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Patrick

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As a result of Gregory the Illuminator, King Trdat was converted and ___ became the first nation to declare itself Christian

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Armenia

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___ was a Franciscan monk who was called minister to Muslims. He encouraged Christians to learn Arabic and study Islam in order to effectively minister to Muslims. He was eventually stoned to death by a Muslin mob in Northern Africa for declaring Muhammad had broken all 10 Commandments.

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Raymond Lull

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The "heresy of the three languages" referred to teh requirement of Church officials that ___ be used for all worship and Bible reading. This greatly hindered the effectiveness of the local Churches to be able to teach and produce true disciples.

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Latin

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The Spanish and Portuguese looked at their global conquests from Mexico to India as ___. This terminology is still used refer to missionary endeavors to the present day

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crusades

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Medieval Christians felt like the ___ had enough knowledge of Christian truth to be guilty for rejecting it; hence they were justifiably doomed to hell.

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Muslims

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In the Indian state of Goa, ___ required that Brahmins adopt European names and customs like infrequently bathing, eating meals, drinking liquor and associating with people of lower castes. Because these customs were offensive tot hem many Brahmins refused to become Christian.

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conversion

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The most famous missionary of the sixteenth century was ___. He arrived in Goa in 1542 and used methods of evangelizing like singing the lessons. As a result he baptized as many as ten thousand people in India in a single month. He went to Japan in 1549 where he wore fine clothes and gave lavish gifts to be better accepted into Japanese culture so he could preach the Gospel.

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Francis Xavier

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The Chinese "___" refers to the Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of Chinese Christians performing traditional rites that honored their ancestors.

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Rites Controversy

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Jonathan Edwards publisher An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. ___ who served as a missionary among Native Americans for a short term before dying of tuberculosis

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David Brainerd

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The ___ made covenant to pray and for one hundred years they held an around the clock prayer meeting to pray for the missionaries they sent out.

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Moravians

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___ was a shoe maker and lay preacher who felt the call of God to go as a missionary to India

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William Carey

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The nineteenth century was called the "___" Christian mission.

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Great Century

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___ went to China in 1872 supported by Southern Baptist Churches. She had a tremendous impact on Baptist Missions and to this day millions of dollars every year are raised in her name for Baptist Missions.

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Lottie Moon

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Reflecting on the legacy of ___ in Western Churches, North China Missionary Roland Allen lamented in 1912 that Western Churches merely transplanted themselves abroad rather than starting indigenous churches with well trained local leaders.

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paternalism

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In Africa, personality cults developed around Charismatic leaders. These groups blended traditional religious beliefs with Chrstian doctrines. This is called ___

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syncretism

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___ was an indigenous African leader who claimed to have experienced the same spiritual empowerment that the disciples received on the day of Pentecost.

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William Wade Harris

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___ served as a missionary in Bahrain. He spent a lifetime energetically promoting the evangelization of Muslims.

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Samuel Zwemer

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Missionary to India ___ urged that "Christianity must be defined as Christ, not the Old Testament, not Western civilization, not even the civilization built around him in the West, but Christ himself... It must be the Christ of the Indian road."

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E. Stanley Jones

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As a result of ___, mainline churches began to focus on humanitarian efforts and moved away from doing evangelism.

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liberal theology

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The Evangelical belief in ___, an eschatological scenario that ticked with an intense expectancy of Christ's return, created a strong concern for evangelism and church plating in their missionary work.

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premillennialsim

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Recognizing the need for more translations of the Bible, William Cameron Townsend started the Summer Institute of Linguistics in 1936 and then ___ 6 years later

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Wycliffe Bible Institute

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The Albanian Missionary ___ was called to work amongst the "poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.

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Mother Theresa

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At the ___ in 1974 Ralph Winter challenged delegates that traditional Missionaries were still needed because 4 out of 5 of the non Christians in the world were beyond the reach of Christian evangelism.

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Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization