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CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 24 “Let The Winds Blow & Thunders Roar”: The Great Awakening in America

CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 24 “Let The Winds Blow & Thunders Roar”: The Great Awakening in America. “There is nothing more important for preaching than the reading of church history and biographies” Dr M L-J. Religious Condition in the Colonies. Spiritual Deadness.

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CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 24 “Let The Winds Blow & Thunders Roar”: The Great Awakening in America

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  1. CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 24“Let The Winds Blow & Thunders Roar”:The Great Awakening in America “There is nothing more important for preaching than the reading of church history and biographies” Dr M L-J

  2. Religious Condition in the Colonies Spiritual Deadness “Dullness, dullness, deep seated boredom with the gospel” on the part of many people, and “in the stony ground of that dullness many new sins sprang up” Jonathan Edwards “The body of the rising generation is a poor, perishing, unconverted (except the Lord pour down his Spirit) an undone generation” Increase Mather, 1678

  3. Symbols of deadness and decline: Half-way Covenant TheologicalLiberalism Beginnings of revival Theodore Frelinghuysen 1691-1747

  4. Gilbert Tennant 1703-1764 New Brunswick, NJ Log College, Nashaminy, PA Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758

  5. George Whitefield 1714-1770 Gloucester Bell Inn “But I consider it was the Divine will that placed me here, and therefore I rejoice. He is unworthy the name of a Christian, who is not as willing to hide himself when God commands, as to act in a public capacity” GW Journal, p. 104 Oxford Servitor The Life of God in the Soul of Man Henry Scougal What was Whitefield’s message and method? Awakening vs. Conversion January 1738 1st trip to Georgia BETHESDA

  6. 2nd trip: Oct 31, 1739 1300 miles N/S 50 miles width 1,000,000 150,000 negro slaves • EVANGELICAL: • Authority of scripture • Necessity of new birth • True conversion worked out in the believer’s life “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

  7. “Mr. Whitefield used to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard” Papers, vol. 18, p 53 Benjamin Franklin

  8. NEW ENGLAND FALL 1740 Gov Jonathan Belcher “Mr. Edward’s is a solid, excellent Christian, but at present weak in body. I think I have not seen his fellow in all New England”

  9. Sarah Pierpoint Edwards to her brother, James Pierpoint • He spoke across class distinctions • He engaged his body while preaching • He preached from his heart • He was a devout and godly man

  10. 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

  11. NEGATIVE: 1. The answer to the churches problems lay in revival alone, thus, men began to use ‘mean’ to promote it. 2. Focus on conversion experience rather than the present and abiding fruit of the Spirit in a person’s life “I had rather wear out than rust out”

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