WorksheetsChallenges to the Church in the 21st Century
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 12mins
True or False:
Malcolm X was a Baptist Church minister.
True
False
What percentage of the Black population claims church membership?
20%
52%
85%
78%
Select what is NOT a challenge the black church community has faced?
Population, Overgrowth
None of the above
The rise of different black church denominations
Ecumenism
As mentioned in this weeks readings
Define: Ecumenism
Movement or tendency of toward worldwide Christian Unity.
Movement towards downsizing the black religious population.
Movement towards worldwide Islamic Unity.
Which state has more A.M.E. churches than anywhere in the world?
Georgia
Virginia
South Carolina
Mississippi
Master Farad Muhammad founded _______.
The Black Baptist Church
The Nation of Islam
The A.M.E. Church
Church of God in Christ
What does the Black Church Need?
Educational Requirements
Health and Pension Benefits
Acceptance of Women in Clergy
A bigger prescience in the Black youth communities.
What is a major challenge the Neo-Pentecostal movement pushes onto the A.M.E Church?
Less church attendees
Pushes away from traditional services
Enormous Church Growth
As mentioned in the readings what phrase or lesson did Minister Malcolm X teach to the Black community?
Negro to Black
Black Success
Black Power
Unity
What is difference between Neo-Pentecostalism and and traditional Pentecostalism?
Neo-Pentecostal pastors and ministers have no college education.
Neo-Pentecostalism focuses on the delivery of the word
Neo-Pentecpstalism combines the "letter and the spirit"
True or False:
Nation of Islam has been a great threat to the Black church.
True
False
True or False:
The ministry of the black church is the only profession where only one out of every four or five practitioners has graduated from professional school.
False
True
As mentioned in the readings who does the clergy of black churches need to accept?
Men
Women
Children
Teenagers
What do Black Churches lack?
Sense of Security to congregation
Fundraisers
A presence in community.
Communal activities
What has been your favorite thing about this class?
DR. LOWE
The Conversations &
Discussions
The Readings
Classmates
What is the state of Black Churches today?
Community is dying, less active.
Community is live, growing, healthy, and vibrant.
Community is at a standstill.
