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