Chapter 1
The Baptist Vision
1. Baptists and Presbyterians are examples of different ____________ ____________.
2. Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians are examples of different ____________.
3. The major differences between Baptists and Roman Catholics have to do with Catholic_____________ and ______________.
4. Roman Catholics have added to the Christian faith in two primary ways: ____________ ____________ and _____________
5. Roman Catholicism has altered biblical teachings in several areas of doctrine, including ___________________, ____________________, and ____________________.
6. Early Baptists differed with the Presbyterians on two points in particular: ____________________ and ____________________
7. This doctrine should have pride of first place in any discussion of the Baptist vision: _________________________
8. This recent Baptist theologian does not discuss the doctrine of Scripture until about halfway through his textbook on systematic theology: ______________________________
9. There are two reasons why the doctrine of Scripture should be placed first in an examination of the Baptist vision. Those reasons are _________________________ and _________________________.
10. Paul’s argument in Galatians 3:16 is based on the fact that the verb in Genesis 12:7 is a _______________ verb.
11. Baptist theologian Morris Ashcraft argued that the Bible is only the _______________ of God’s revelation.
12. Contrary to Ashcraft, this Baptist theologian in 1923 contended that the Bible is God’s revelation: ____________________
13. Revelation is both _______________ and _______________.
14. Baptists have generally held that we should approach the Bible with a hermeneutic of __________.
15. This Baptist theologian argued in 1894 that the Old Testament presentation of history is often flawed: _________________________
16. Ralph Elliott wrote this book in 1961, a book in which he questioned the historicity of Genesis: ______________________________
17. The author argues that contemporary Christians are to do this with claims to new revelations: ____________________
18. For most of Baptist history Baptist pastors and theologians have gone to the Bible with this attitude and conviction: _________________________
19. By the “priesthood of all believers,” Luther meant that “we are all priests to ____________________.”
20. By AD 1527 Anabaptists, also known today as Radical Reformers, were being executed in this Reformed European city: _______________
21. This Anabaptist leader believed he was completing the Reformation begun by Luther: _________________________
22. In contrast to Martin Luther, the Anabaptist, Menno Simons, saw himself as applying the notion of voluntaryism to this doctrine: _________________________
23. This Baptist theologian identifies “voluntarism” with “soul competency,” and further contends, insisting on support from Mullins, that it is the most important axiom of religion in a Baptist understanding: ____________________
24. James Dunn argues that soul competency entails the idea that persons, made by God, can do this: ________________________
25. Timothy George has argued that, rather than soul competence, we should instead affirm soul _______________.
26. This famous Baptist stated that the effort on the part of any person or institution to come between the soul and God is “a blasphemous impertinence”: _________________________
27. The author contends that the phrase “soul competency” might be replaced with this phrase: “____________________”
28. Soul competency applies to all persons, but the priesthood concept applies only to ____________________.
29. The priesthood of all believers means that the church has an every-member ____________________.
30. Some of the same Baptist voices that have spoken loudly for the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers have also spoken loudly in favor of _______________.
31. This Baptist theologian and seminary founder argued that it should be “no hardship” for seminary professors “to sign declaration of their principles” in the form of a confession: ____________________
32. This early British Baptist wrote The Mystery of Iniquity: ____________________
33. Isaac Backus contended that when all persons in Massachusetts were taxed to support the established Congregational Church, that this requirement constituted, in effect, ____________________.
34. Backus and other early Baptists who believed in religious liberty made their case from this source: ____________________
35. Curtis Lee Laws in “The Fiery Furnace and Soul Liberty,” called upon this British churchman not to crush nonconformity in Great Britain: ____________________
36. Philip Hamburger has noted that nineteenth-century Baptists were not strict separationists, but instead held to a position which can be described as ____________________.
37. This liberal Baptist figure called upon the federal government to enforce prohibition based on the Bible’s injunctions against drunkenness: ____________________
38. The letters of this man, written around AD 107, show that in some places the role of bishop was being seen as different from the role of pastor: ____________________
39. Cyprian wrote that the church is in the bishop and the bishop is in the __________.
40. Cyprian also wrote that one cannot have God as Father if he does not also have the church as _______________.
41. The hierarchical form of church government (polity) which rules from the top down by bishops is historically known as _______________.
42. This Reformer in Geneva developed the rudimentary form of a style of church government known now as Presbyterianism: _________________________
43. Baptists hold that local churches are _______________ led, autonomous bodies, under the direct headship and _______________ of Jesus Christ.
44. Baptists argue that efficiency is no substitute for faithfulness to the _______________.
45. Baptists hold that church membership is open only to those who have placed faith in Jesus Christ and who have followed him in _______________.
46. Evangelistic and evangelical Baptists both past and present have affirmed that Christian evangelism entails the articulation of specific doctrinal verities, or what they have at times called the “____________________.”
47. This Baptist individual was a hyper-Calvinist pastor in London who was unhappy with Charles Spurgeon’s evangelistic Calvinism: _________________________
48. This man wrote the important book, The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation: _________________________
49. British Baptist pastor Benjamin Keach wrote that faithful ministers are always willing to spend this to win souls to Christ: ____________________
50. President James P. Boyce of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1880s invited this evangelist to erect his tabernacle on seminary property and to preach a crusade in Louisville: _________________________
Chapter 2
The New Testament Church
1. Jesus, by his own teachings, clearly intended his followers to do ministry in this manner: ____________________
2. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit was not given to the saints as a _________________________.
3. Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit by the Father at this event: ____________________
4. Pentecost is the New Testament name for this Old Testament feast, discussed in Leviticus 23:15–17: _______________
5. By the time of Jesus the rabbis had decided that the Feast of Weeks fell on the day that Israel arrived at this location to receive the law of God: _______________
6. While the original Feast of Firstfruits consisted of Israel giving gifts to God, the new covenant celebration consists of God giving this gift to all flesh: ____________________
7. As Moses ascended the mountain and received the law from God, so Christ ascended on high and poured out his Spirit on the church, so that the ascent was followed by the __________.
8. The presence of the Spirit with the church is, in effect, the presence of __________.
9. Jesus’ claim that he would pour out the Spirit is one of the most important evidences that he is the ____________________.
10. This man was principal of a small holiness Bible college in Topeka, Kansas, which would witness the beginnings of the Pentecostal movement: _________________________
11. This man led the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles into an experience of speaking in tongues: _________________________
12. The early Pentecostals believed that the experience of speaking in tongues was the _______________ of Spirit baptism.
13. This prophet in the Bible predicted that Jesus, the Messiah, would baptize his followers in the Spirit: _______________
14. God gave this remarkable spiritual gift to the disciples on the day of Pentecost in order for them to do effective evangelism among the masses of visitors in Jerusalem who had come from other lands for the festival: _________________________
15. Peter cited this Old Testament prophet in his Pentecost sermon, indicating that all flesh will now have the possibility of receiving the Holy Spirit: ______________
16. This many people were saved on the day of Pentecost, the same number that were judged by God at the foot of Mt. Sinai when Moses received the Law: _______________
17. Pentecost is as defining a moment as the inauguration of this under Moses: ______________________________
18. The Gentile Spirit baptism in Acts 10 makes it clear that the Gentiles had received ____________________.
19. Rather than speaking of baptism by the Spirit, we should, instead, speak of baptism __________ the Spirit.
20. Spirit baptism now takes place at this point in the believer’s salvation experience: ____________________
21. According to one scholar, it is by receiving this that one becomes a Christian: _______________
22. Believers have been immersed in the Spirit and the Spirit has been __________ into them.
23. Pentecostals have traditionally argued that Spirit baptism is __________ to conversion/initiation.
24. According to the author, the Holy Spirit’s primary work is to engender this in those whom God will save: ____________________
25. The work of the Spirit mentioned in the previous question is accomplished through this process: _________________________
26. Jonathan Edwards said that the words of a prepared and Spirit-filled preacher are like _______________ in the hand of the Spirit.
27. The Reformation tradition, both Protestant and Free Church, has often emphasized a real link between _______________ and the _______________.
28. This associate of Luther proposed the notion that the Spirit was free to violate Bible teaching: _________________________
29. The Reformers generally focused on the literal or natural meaning of the text of Scripture as a check against this in religious matters: ___________________
30. The Reformers taught that the Spirit cannot be separated from the Word, since it was the Spirit himself who __________ the Word.
31. Ours must be a theology of both __________ and __________.
32. Receiving the gift of the Spirit enables the people of God to carry out the __________ to which he has called them.
33. The gift of the Spirit means that Christian people have hope for the transformation of _______________ that comes about through the new birth.
34. Christians are not what they once were before conversion, and this is because of the gift _____, birth ______, and baptism _____ the Holy Spirit.
35. To a large degree the widespread use of spiritual gifts for service faded from the scene by the period of __________.
36. The placement of ministry and the use of spiritual gifts by only a few is known as _______________.
37. This revival in America opened the door for the laity to teach and even to serve as “lay-preachers” in open air services, as well as to serve in capacities once reserved only for the clergy: _________________________
38. This group of Baptists helped spread revival across the American frontier: _______________
39. This famous preacher referred to early Pentecostalism as “the last vomit of Satan”: _________________________
40. This Baptist became the first general chairman of the Assemblies of God: _________________________
41. In the twentieth century, Pentecostal churches have probably received more new members from this denomination than any other: ____________________
42. According to historian Claude Howe, Pentecostals and charismatics stress the experience of the second blessing, while Baptists prize the __________.
43. Charles Spurgeon invited this evangelist to preach at the Metropolitan Tabernacle: ____________________
44. The author argues that our responses to the work of the Holy Spirit are __________ responses.
45. Spiritual gifts operating in the churches enable us to be engaged in __________ ministry.
46. The term “church” (Greek ekklesia) in the New Testament refers primarily to _________ __________ of __________.
47. Presbyterians often appeal, wrongly, to this passage of Scripture as an example of the first presbyterial meeting in the New Testament: _______________
48. For Acts 15 to be a “presbytery” (in the sense that Presbyterians mean when they use that term), there would have had to be representatives from _____ of the churches.
49. The local church has the right to call and __________ its own elders or pastors and deacons.
50. In Congregational polity there is nothing __________ than the local church, except Christ himself.
51. Congregations generally adopt one of these as a touchstone by which to evaluate the beliefs and teachings of church leaders to ensure that false doctrine is not allowed to penetrate the congregation’s teaching ministry: _________________________
52. Congregational polity consists of the _______________ of local congregations under the _______________ of Jesus Christ.
53. Congregational polity does not necessarily mean, though, that relationship with ____________________ is not important.
54. Associational directors of missions are not _________ who have the authority to tell local pastors and churches what they can or cannot do.
55. A denominational or associational body may __________, but it may not __________ a local church.
56. Baptists are duty-bound to follow Scripture in every way, and one of those ways is in the manner in which they determine to _______________ and _______________ their churches.
57. Baptists have generally believed both that all believers are spiritually gifted and at the same time that local churches are to be led by _____________.
58. Hebrews 13:17 states that church members are to __________ their leaders and to _______________________.
59. First Peter 5:1–5 indicates that elders (pastors) are to lead, but they are to lead with a ____________________.
60. The primary leadership position in the church in the Congregational system is the __________.
61. The word that is translated “bishop” in older translations should be better translated _______________.
62. First Timothy 3:1–7 indicates that the two primary duties of overseers are ____________________ and ____________________.
63. The two offices of the early church identified in the New Testament are __________ and __________.
64. Besides the words “pastor” and “overseer,” there is one other word used in the New Testament to designate the same office. That word is __________.
65. The three terms, “elder,” “overseer,” and “pastor,” when combined together, point to the fact that such persons need to be able to lead a congregation _____________, _____________, and _____________.
66. The New Testament certainly does describe churches which have more than one person holding the office of __________.
67. This theologian noted that there is no evidence that the number of elders in New Testament churches was uniform or that every church had a plurality of elders: ____________________
68. This theologian in the Reformation drew a distinction between teaching elders and ruling elders: ____________________
69. The Bible teaches that mission must proceed from Jerusalem to the __________ __________ of the earth.
Chapter 3
Toward a Theology of Cooperation