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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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
“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”
1st Great Awakening ~1726-1760
• Jonathan Edwardso sensationalismo “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
• George Whitefieldo itinerant, spontaneous, open-air preaching
2nd Great Awakening ~1800-1830
• Timothy Dwight at Yale College
• “Great Revival”o Western camp meetings
• Charles Grandison Finneyo Burnt Over Districto “new measures”
Urban Revivals, 1870s
• Dwight Moodyo business judgmento advertisement of revivals
• Ira Sankeyo gospel singer
20th-Century Revivalism
• Billy Sunday
• Billy Grahamo radio, film, television
• Pentecostal revivalso Azusa Streeto “Toronto Blessing”
Institutionalizing the Mission Mind
• voluntary societieso missionso Bible societies
• Methodist methodso circuit riderso general conferences
Mission Mind & Restorationism
• Disciples of Christ
• Baptist “Landmark” movement
• antimission movement
Roots of Fundamentalism
• premillennial dispensationalismo John Nelson Darby’s version
• Princeton Theologyo Christian rationalismo literal approach to the Bible
Fundamentalism
• militant antimodernism
• The Fundamentalso biblical inerrancy & literalismo divinity of Jesus o virgin birth of Jesuso atonement through crucifixion o Resurrection & 2nd coming of Jesus
Holiness-Pentecostal Movement
• sanctification as 2nd blessing
• gifts of Holy Spirito speaking in tongueso prayero prophecyo healing
Pentecostal Developments
• Parham’s Bethel Bible College
• Azusa Street Revival (1906-1909)
• Pentecostal denominationso COGICo Pentecostal Holiness Churcho Assemblies of Godo Foursquare Gospel
Interactions with Native Americans
• New England “praying towns”o John Elioto translation of Bible
• Indian Removal policy
• postmillennial beliefso native conversions to bring on the
millennium
Missions to African American Slaves
• early debate:o fear that conversion = freedomo focus on conversion = obedience
• Baptists & Methodists
Mission to the World
1) ABCFM (1810)o Burma, India, Ceylon
2) denominational mission boardso “civilizing” debate
3) faith missions o China Inland Mission (1865)
Foreign Missions, Post-1865
• Student Volunteer Movement
• Laymen’s Missionary Movement o support from the business community
• Hocking Report (1932)
• conservative evangelical missions
OVERVIEW
• revivals & awakenings
• Methodists & Baptists
• Pentecostals & Fundamentalists
• restorationism & millennialism
• home & foreign missions