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Baptist History Lesson 24

Baptist History Lesson 24. Revival, Reunion, Expansion.

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Baptist History Lesson 24

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  1. Baptist HistoryLesson 24 Revival, Reunion, Expansion

  2. “The Baptists asked it through Washington; the request commended itself to Madison; and to the Baptists, beyond a doubt, belongs the glory of engrafting its best articles on the noblest Constitution ever framed for the government of mankind” Cathcart, Centennial Offering

  3. Four Periods of ‘Awakening’ Activity I. The Great Awakening (1730’s-1750’s) II. The 2nd Great Awakening (1790’s-1830”’s) III. Prayer Meetings through New Pentecostalism (1857-1910’s) IV. 1940’s – 1950’s Billy Graham

  4. 2nd trip: Oct 31, 1739 1300 miles N/S 50 miles width 1,000,000 population 150,000 negro slaves What did Whitefield preach? “Thus he had come to a position in which not denominational adherence but evangelical soundness was the criterion, and his work had become non-denominational in character” AD, Vol 1, pg 438

  5. The 1st Great Awakening 1720’s - The Middle Colonies 1730’s – The New England Colonies 1740 – 1750’s – The Southern Colonies “God graciously intervened in the affairs of man” • EVANGELICAL: • Authority of scripture • Necessity of new birth • Intent to spread the gospel • True conversion worked out in the believer’s life

  6. Results of the Great Awakening POSITIVE: 1. Conversions 2. Increase in churches and church membership 3. Increase awareness of the necessity of the new birth 4. No tolerance for an unconverted minister • Building of new evangelical schools: • Princeton • Dartmouth • Rutgers • Brown 6. Calvinism strengthened and preserved in American churches for another hundred years

  7. Why did religious fervor fade after the 1st Great Awakening? The Disruption of the American Revolution The Rise of English Deism & French Skepticism Western Migration Mass Migration to the Continent

  8. The 2nd Great Awakening Western Frontier New England East Coast

  9. The East Coast Colleges Hampton- Sidney College – 1787, students pry for revival Yale – 1802, Timothy Dwight Princeton – 1813 Daniel Baker, Pry Mtg 1813 – 1815 40 converted Harvard, Bowdin, Brown, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Williams, and Andover Methodism Frances Asbury

  10. The Frontier Camp Meeting Logan, KY - 1797 Cane Ridge, KY - 1801

  11. The Frontier Camp Meeting Logan, KY - 1797 Cane Ridge - 1801 Presbyterian Split The Cumberland Presbyterian ChurchThe Christian Church The Church of Disciples Methodist Circuit Riders The Circuit Riders went after the frontier people. Francis Asbury/Peter Cartwright - Baptist Farmer/Sunday Preacher

  12. The Results of the 2nd Great Awakening The American Revolution established a new context for the churches, in whichvoluntary patterns for survival and growth had to be established. The Rise of revivalism – the idea that revivals could be planned. The Democratization of Christianity – Christian organizations based upon theindividual. Away from creeds, confessions. We will see divisions and the riseof denominations and para-church organizations. The Decline of Calvinism – it will be replaced by Arminian Evangelization The 2nd Great Awakening will delay the dissent into paganism

  13. Union of Separate and Regular Baptists Virginia 1776: United Baptists Churches of Virginia North Carolina Separates Sandy Creek Association 1758 Regulars Kehukee Association 1765

  14. 1775-1800 Period of Unusual Growth 1800: 48 Associations 1775 1 in 264 a Baptist 1800 1 in 53 a Baptist Why such growth? 1. The granting of religious liberty 2. Missionary activity of pioneer preachers 3. Harmony between democratic spirit among the people and congregational polity of the Baptists

  15. Tennessee 1765 first church in Nashville area 1790 18 churches; 900 members Kentucky 1790 42 churches; 3100 members 1801 Union of Elkhorn and Separates of South Kentucky “And that the preaching Christ tasted death for every man shall be no bar to communion” 9th Article

  16. What did Baptists in the South look like? 1. Associational 2. Confessional Abstracts rather than full confessions 3. Calvinistic Soteriology 4. Committed Congregationalists 5. Evangelistic

  17. John A. Broadus “The American Baptist Minister of 100 years ago” 1. Felt inward call to the ministry 2. Endured hardships 3. Erred about ministerial support 4. Generally favored ministerial education 5. The character of their preaching was eminently Biblical “it suffices to add that the preachers of that day depended much on the aid of the Holy Spirit to give them liberty in speaking and the hearts of their hearers…And it is a great fundamental truth, to which we must cling, that God will help us in preaching, and himself ‘giveth the increase.’”

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