World evangelism word search puzzle: Contrasting philosophies and approaches

Word puzzle containing keywords from chapter 11 of Discovering Missions by Charles Gailey and Howard Culbertson

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  1. Karl Gutzlaff was a tentmaker missionary to China whose lack of an _________________________ system for local evangelists allowed widespread fraud to take place.
  2. People who have access to the gospel but have not accepted it are sometimes classified as belonging to _________________ B.
  3. In the 1600s, a Spanish missionary named Pedro Claver visited the ______________ of slave ships arriving in Cartagena, in present-day Colombia, to minister to enslaved Africans.
  4. George Patterson served as a Baptist missionary to Latin America and emphasized developing reproducing chains of churches with not only daughter churches but also ____________________________ congregations.
  5. In the early 1900s, Walter Rauschenbusch emphasized ___________________ ministry as a central responsibility of the church.
  6. In the early 1900s, Samuel Zwemer became known as "the apostle to the _______________________."
  7. Henry Venn and Rufus Anderson came up with the "three ______________________" principles.
  8. People who have never heard the _______________ are sometimes classified as belonging to World A.
  9. Missionary David Livingstone was found dead, kneeling beside his bed, during his final journey in ___________.
  10. Donald McGavran was a missionary to India who encouraged church leaders to embrace church planting as a primary missionary _____________________.
  11. Luis Bush popularized the term "10/40 _________________."
  12. Some observers have described Christianity in Africa as a _________________ wide but only an _____________ deep.
  13. The cutting down of a sacred oak tree by Boniface is a good example of a "_________________ encounter" proclamation of the gospel as contrasted with a "__________________ encounter" presentation.
  14. In terms of contrasting philosophies of mission, ________________ lies at the opposite end of the continuum from "narrow focus."

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— Howard Culbertson, hculbert@snu.edu

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