Study Guide: Module 6 I. Christianity is a Practical Religion| Instructions to Student:Write your answers in this column. The cell will expand as you type. | Core Christianity (textbook): Chapter 10| | 1. | What is the relationship between works and salvation? | Faith is promoted by God’s love to do good works| 2.
| Why do Christians do good works? | 1) the love of God2) gratitude3) the command from the bible4) pragmatism| II. Christianity is a Movement thatTransforms Culture| | A.Core Christianity (textbook): Chapter 11| | 1. | When did Christianity become Rome’s national religion? | AD 313| 2. | What was the Ulster revival? | When many unbelivers got saved after praying meeting in Ireland| 3. | What did European missionaries do wrong in their approach? | Rather than allowing the gospel to transform the culture it touched, they often imposed a European culture on a people struggling with the implications of the gospel in their own life.
| 4. | What is “trickle down” influence? When a native chieftain of a tribe is converted and the decrees that everyone become a Christian| 5. | What is “bubble up” influence? | Begins in the heart of individuals when they are converted. Salvation transforms their values and attitiudes. | 6. | Which is more effective, the “trickle down” influence or “bubble up” influence? Why? | The bubble up influence because it doesn’t need laws passed to change people or society.
| 7. | When is a nation considered to be “Christianized”? | When society assumes Christian values and attitudes| 8. T/F Oikos conversion in the New Testament is the promise that the presence of one Christian in a family guarantees the eventual conversion of all other family members of his family. | False| 9.
| What term do foreign missionaries use to describe oikos conversion? | A people movement| 10. | What is a “people movement”? | Where many people make an individual decision to believe in Jesus Christ, but they make the same decision with others, simultaneously, and all become Christians. | 11. | How did the term “the Protestant work ethic” come about? Family values changed in many homes touched by Protestantism, and a major change was the attitude toward work and leisure. Protestant ministers taught people their primary goal to give God the Glory.
| 12. | What does “Redemption and Lift” refer to? | As a secondary impact of that work ethic. Those who work the hardest are rewarded financially. | B. Excerpt: What is Revival? | | 1. | What church’s revival does the author recount in this reading? | Liberty university| 2.
| What started the revival in that Church? | A lone student confessing his sins and weeping at the pulpit| 3. T/F According to the author revival is only a recent phenomenon, a unique cultural event erupting in the late 19th and early 20th century. | False| 4. | How does the author define revival? | An extraordinary work of God in which Christians repent of their sins as they become intensely aware of HIS presence in their midst, and they manifest a positive response to God in renewed obedience to the known will of god, resulting in both a deepening of their individual and corporate experience with God, and an increased concern to win others to Christ. C. Audio Clip: Hell’s Best Kept Secret| | 1.
| What percentage of converts did the lecturer say he found were falling away from the faith? | 80 – 90| 2. | What was the lecturer’s point with his illustration about the 2 men on a plane? | The horrific consequences of disobeying Gods law. Have the right motive| 3. | What was the lecturer’s point concerning Groaninzin’s disease? | We preach the gospel of grace without the sacrifice. They are not convinced of the disease so they can appreciate the cure. | 4.
Why does the lecturer suggest that when sharing our faith we should start with the natural and then go to the spiritual? | Because the natural man will not receive the spiritual things of God. | 5. | According to the lecture what did John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, John Wesley and Charles Spurgeon have in common in the gospel message? | They have so much conviction| 6. | What does the lecturer suggest NOT to preach in the gospel message? | Righteousness| 7.
| What were your overall thoughts on the lecture? | |
