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“Through you all peoples will be blessed” (Gen. 12:3)
  • The Kingdom Strikes Back!



  • A presentation by
  • Howard Culbertson
  • Southern Nazarene University
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5 Epochs of Redemptive History
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Winning the Romans
AD 0-400
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Winning the Romans
AD 0-400
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"Emperor Constantine’s Vision"
  • Emperor Constantine’s Vision
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Winning the Barbarians
AD 400-800
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Winning the Barbarians
AD 400-800
  • Origin of Christmas tree?
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Winning the Vikings
AD 800 - 1200
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Winning the Vikings
AD 800 - 1200
  • Vikings delighted in
    • killing people in the churches
    • burning churches
    • selling monks into slavery.
  • Anskar (801-854)
    • “Apostle of the North”
    • Sadly, no visible, lasting results
  • Though England and the Continent were devastated by the Vikings, it was not a victory for paganism
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Winning the Saracens?
AD 1200-1600
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Winning the Saracens?
AD 1200-1600
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To the Ends of the Earth
AD 1600-2000
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To the Ends of the Earth
AD 1600-2000
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1792-1914: 
The Great Century
(in historian Latourette’s words)
  • Opened:
    • William Carey forms Baptist Missionary Society
  • Ended:
    • World War I

  • “Imperfect as they were, those nineteenth-century missionaries turned what some thought to be a declining Caucasian religion into the largest and most dynamic religious faith in the world”
    • Ruth Tucker
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Three eras; four men
  • To the coast lands (1792-1910)
    • William Carey
    • “Haystack” prayer meeting
    • European dominance
  • To the inland areas (1865-1980)
    • Hudson Taylor
    • “Faith” mission agencies
    • American dominance
  • Unreached groups (1934- ? )
    • William Cameron Townsend
    • Donald McGavran
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William Carey
  • Father of Modern Missions
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Hudson Taylor
  • China Inland Mission
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Unreached Peoples
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Unreached Peoples
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World Missionary Conference
Edinburgh 1910
  • Focus:  What will it take to finish the job in the unoccupied fields?
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1945-1969:
The Twenty-Five Unbelievable years
(Ralph Winter’s phrase)
  • Returning veterans bring global         consciousness
  • Nationalism explodes
  • Collapse of Western control (from 99% to less than 5%)
  • Upsurge of Christianity in non-western world
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The 21st Century?
  • Sending
  • Overseeing
  • Intermediacy
  • Support
  • Shrinking World
  • SOP, PDQ, ETC, FYEO
  • Tentmaker Witnesses
  • Multicultural Teams


  • Colonialistic vestiges
    • “Missionaries can go anywhere”
    • “Missionaries can do anything”
    • “We are here to build things for God”
    • Using stewardship as excuse for a controlling posture”
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“Through you all peoples will be blessed” (Gen. 12:3)

  • The end




  • The Kingdom Strikes Back!



  • A presentation by
  • Howard Culbertson
  • Southern Nazarene University