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CHAPTER 5: Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind

CHAPTER 5: Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind. American Experience of Time. Past = restorationism Present =perfectionism Future = millennialism, discovery & progress. Mission Mind. America as God’s new chosen people Great Commission: Matthew 28:19 conversions & revivals.

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CHAPTER 5: Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind

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  1. CHAPTER 5: Protestant Churches and the Mission Mind

  2. American Experience of Time • Past = restorationism • Present =perfectionism • Future = millennialism, discovery & progress

  3. Mission Mind • America as God’s new chosen people • Great Commission: Matthew 28:19 • conversions & revivals • “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”

  4. 1st Great Awakening ~1726-1760 • Jonathan Edwards • sensationalism • “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” • George Whitefield • itinerant, spontaneous, open-air preaching

  5. 2nd Great Awakening ~1800-1830 • Timothy Dwight at Yale College • “Great Revival” • Western camp meetings • Charles Grandison Finney • Burnt Over District • “new measures”

  6. Urban Revivals, 1870s • Dwight Moody • business judgment • advertisement of revivals • Ira Sankey • gospel singer

  7. 20th-Century Revivalism • Billy Sunday • Billy Graham • radio, film, television • Pentecostal revivals • Azusa Street • “Toronto Blessing”

  8. Institutionalizing the Mission Mind • voluntary societies • missions • Bible societies • Methodist methods • circuit riders • general conferences

  9. Mission Mind & Restorationism • Disciples of Christ • Baptist “Landmark” movement • antimission movement

  10. Roots of Fundamentalism • premillennial dispensationalism • John Nelson Darby’s version • Princeton Theology • Christian rationalism • literal approach to the Bible

  11. Fundamentalism • militant antimodernism • The Fundamentals • biblical inerrancy & literalism • divinity of Jesus • virgin birth of Jesus • atonement through crucifixion • Resurrection & 2nd coming of Jesus

  12. Holiness-Pentecostal Movement • sanctification as 2nd blessing • gifts of Holy Spirit • speaking in tongues • prayer • prophecy • healing

  13. Pentecostal Developments • Parham’s Bethel Bible College • Azusa Street Revival (1906-1909) • Pentecostal denominations • COGIC • Pentecostal Holiness Church • Assemblies of God • Foursquare Gospel

  14. Interactions with Native Americans • New England “praying towns” • John Eliot • translation of Bible • Indian Removal policy • postmillennial beliefs • native conversions to bring on the millennium

  15. Missions to African American Slaves • early debate: • fear that conversion = freedom • focus on conversion = obedience • Baptists & Methodists

  16. Mission to the World • ABCFM (1810) • Burma, India, Ceylon • denominational mission boards • “civilizing” debate • faith missions • China Inland Mission (1865)

  17. Foreign Missions, Post-1865 • Student Volunteer Movement • Laymen’s Missionary Movement • support from the business community • Hocking Report (1932) • conservative evangelical missions

  18. OVERVIEW • revivals & awakenings • Methodists & Baptists • Pentecostals & Fundamentalists • restorationism & millennialism • home & foreign missions

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