[This is a sample questionaire for missionaries. Feel free to adapt it for your own church's needs.]
Our church desires to spread the gospel to the world. We desire to use our mission offerings to accomplish this in a Scriptural way. We want to support men whose doctrinal position is in line with ours. We want to help establish churches of like faith and practice. To insure that, we are asking each prospective missionary to fill out this questionnaire. If we decide to support you, we would also like a picture of your family for our missionary display. Feel free to use a blank sheet of paper for any expanded answers and please number them.
Name:____________________________________________________
Church Name:_____________________________________________
Church Address:__________________________________________
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Church Phone:__________________Email:____________________
PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Do you know for sure you are saved? ______
- When were you saved? ______ your wife?______
- Do you follow a daily family Bible reading and prayer program? ______
- Were you baptized in a scriptural Baptist church that did not accept alien immersion? _______
- Name of the church which baptized you: ___________________________
- Location of the church which baptized you:___________________________
- Was your wife baptized in the same kind of church? ______
- Are you sure God has called you to preach? ______
- What is your present home status: Single? ______ You and wife at home? ______ How many children at home? _____
- Have you or your wife ever been married before?______ If yes, explain__________________________
- Are your wife and children in subjection to you? _______________________
- Do you, your wife, or your children go mixed swimming? _______
- Does anyone in your family wear shorts in public?_____Do females wear slacks? _______Or dresses that are low cut or above knee? ______
- Do you or your family attend movies? ______
- Does anyone in your family use tobacco? ______
- Does anyone in your family drink alcoholic beverages?_________
- Are you regular and faithful in visitation and witnessing to the lost? ______
- Where did you receive your Bible training? __________________________________________ How long?______ Did you graduate?________
CHURCH RELATIONSHIP
- Has your sending church voted to send you as a missionary under their authority? ______
- Have you ever applied to a mission board or mission committee? ______ If yes, explain _______________________________________________________
- How long have you been a member of your sending church?________
- What positions of service have you been active in your home church?_______________________
- How much money does your sending church give to you each month?____________
- What is your average support monthly?________
- What is your monthly support goal?___________
- Did you tithe and give regular mission offerings before you surrendered to be a missionary?_____
- Do you plan to tithe on your personal support or the total amount given to you by churches? Personal_____________ Total______________
- Will your tithe go to your sending church or to the mission work on the field?__________________
- Do you plan to pastor the church you start?______
- Do you actively seek support from the churches affiliated with a convention, association, or fellowship?________
- Is your sending church listed in the directory of a convention, fellowship, or association?______ If yes, which?__________________
- Does your sending church support missionaries that are under any mission board?______
- Under what circumstances would you change your sending church?_______________
- Will your sending church discipline you if you fall into immorality or change your doctrinal position?______
- Will all of your financial support be handled by your sending church? _______
- Are you in agreement with your sponsoring church's doctrines and practices?_______
- Will you send regular prayer letters to us? ______
- Will you send financial reports to us monthly______ or when?____________
DOCTRINAL
- Do you believe in the Divine Trinity?________
- Do you believe in the eternal pre-existence of Christ?_______
- Do you believe in the Virgin birth of the Christ?_____
- Do you believe in the substitutionary death of Christ?______
- Do you believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ?______
- Can a saved person lose his or her salvation?______
- Do you believe in the theory of evolution?______
- Do you believe in theistic evolution?______
- Do you believe that the church was started on the day of Pentecost?______
- What do you believe missions to be? _________________________________________
- Would you speak in or accept support from a non-Baptist church?______
- Do you believe the Holy Spirit baptizes the believer into a universal body?______
- Do you believe that the New Testament Church is: local______ universal_______ or both local and universal_______
- Do you believe that baptism today is by: water_______ Holy Spirit______ or both_______
- Do you believe that only local New Testament Baptist churches have scriptural authority to baptize?______
- Do you believe the drink for the Lord's Supper is: Fermented Wine______ Grape juice_______
- Do you believe that the Lord's Supper should be: Open Communion with all professing Christians?_______ Those in doctrinal agreement?______ Local church members only?______
- Do you believe that a divorced and remarried man is qualified for the ministry?______
- Do you believe the AV 1611 KJV is God's preserved word in the English language?______
- What is the name and date of the translation of the Bible you will be using on the mission field? _________________________________________________________________________
- Is that translation Textus Receptus based?____________
- Is the gift of tongues for today?______
- Do you believe that money from supporting churches should be used to build buildings for national churches on the mission field?______
- Do you believe money from supporting churches should be used to pay salaries of national pastors on the mission field?______
- Would you send your young preachers back to the States to be trained for the ministry?______
- Do you support, participate in, or approve of Promise Keepers?________
- Are you: Premillennium______ Postmillennium______ Amillennium______
- Do you believe the rapture occurs: Pretribulation_____ Midtribulation_____ Postribulation______
Use the space below for additional comments:
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Signed:________________________________________
Address:_______________________________________
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Phone:_______________Cell Phone:________________
Email:__________________________________________
Date:___________________________________________