This document contains 20 statements related to missions, religions, and cultures. Respondents are asked to identify whether each statement is true or false. The statements cover topics such as the definitions of syncretism and culture, beliefs about Jesus, importance of indigenization and language learning for missionaries, largest religious populations and missionary sending bodies, and core beliefs of religions like Islam.

1. PLEASE ANSWER
TRUE
OR
FALSE
FOR EACH QUESTION:
Syncretism is defined as the combination of different forms of
religion or practice. ______
Culture is defined as the entire human made environment in
which human beings live. _______
The incarnation of Jesus means that Jesus was God in Human
flesh dwelling among us. _______
Indigenization insists that we must change our own ways of
thinking and behaving as cross-cultural missionaries to relate to
other cultures. _______
No call of any kind is required to be a missionary of Christ.
_______
A Christian missionary must have a general call of God to
salvation and discipleship before he or she has a special call to
vocational ministry. _______
In the missionary appointment process the only way to do
missionary work is to commit to long term missions. _______
The 10/40 Window contains the core of unreached people of our
world. _______
A majority of the world’s Muslim, Hindus, and Buddhists live
in North America. _______

2. The second largest world religions population is Muslim, while
Christianity is the first in numbers of followers. _______
Ethno-linguistic Peoples Group groups the people of the world
by the common factor of their ethnicity and language rather
than grouping them by only geographic or political boundaries.
_______
Unreached people group is people with no Christian church
movement having sufficient strength, resources, and
commitment to sustain and ensure the continuous multiplication
of churches. _______
Allah is similar to Jesus Christ in offering grace to his
followers instead of works as the primary means of salvation.
_______
The three largest populated countries in the world are: China,
India, and USA. _______
The Southern Baptist Convention sends the largest number of
missionaries of all Protestant denominations. _______
It is not important for a foreign missionary to have a connection
with a home church(es). _______
The gift of apostleship is very important for an effective
missionary. _______
The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention emphasizes long-range commitment and service,
regarding as basic the concept of the career missionary.
_______
Learning the native language of the country in which a

3. missionary serves is not important in proclaiming the gospel.
_______
There are no educational requirements for being appointed as a
full time missionary with a North American Mission Board or
the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention. _______
A Christian missionary should accept that all world religions
are but different ways to salvation, that there is no real
difference in the truths they proclaim. _______
A core belief of any Muslim must be the Five Pillars of Islam.
_______
It is not important for a full-time missionary to identify and
equip new leaders. _______
A full-time cross-cultural missionary should have a goal to train
indigenous leaders to take over the work of the new church or
ministry. _______
The founder of Islam world religion is Muhammad. _______