• The First Great Awakening. (SOURCED FROM BRITIANICA AND WICKAPEDIA).
  • The Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion. The Great Awakening marked the emergence of Anglo-American evangelicalism as a AS  A LEADER FOR THIS EFFORT.
    Trans-denominational movement within the Protestant churches. In the United States, the term Great Awakening is most often used, while in the United Kingdom, the movement is referred to While the Evangelical Revival united evangelicals across various denominations around shared beliefs, it also led to division in existing churches between those who supported the revivals and those who did not. Opponents accused the revivals of fostering disorder and fanaticism within the churches by enabling uneducated, itinerant preachers and encouraging religious enthusiasm. In England, evangelical Anglicans would grow into a significant constituency within the Church of England, and Methodism would develop out of the ministries of Whitefield and Wesley. In the American colonies, the Awakening caused the Congregational and Presbyterian churches to split, strengthening the Methodist and Baptist denominations. It had little immediate impact on most LutheransQuakers, and non-Protestants [2] but later led to a schism among Quakers that persists today. While the Evangelical Revival united evangelicals across various denominations around shared beliefs, it also led to division in existing churches between those who supported the revivals and those who did not. Opponents accused the revivals of fostering disorder and fanaticism within the churches by enabling uneducated, itinerant preachers and encouraging religious enthusiasm. In England, evangelical Anglicans would grow into a significant constituency within the Church of England, and Methodism would develop out of the ministries of Whitefield and Wesley. In the American colonies, the Awakening caused the Congregational and Presbyterian churches to split, strengthening the Methodist and Baptist denominations. It had little immediate impact on most LutheransQuakers, and non-Protestants [2] but later led to a schism among Quakers that persists today. Evangelical preachers “sought to include every person in conversion, regardless of gender, race, and status.”[3] Throughout the North American colonies, especially in the South, the revival movement increased the number of enslaved Africans and free blacks who were exposed to (and subsequently converted to) Christianity.[4] It also inspired the founding of new missionary societies, such as the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792.[5] Evangelical preachers “sought to include every person in conversion, regardless of gender, race, and status.”[3] Throughout the North American colonies, especially in the South, the revival movement increased the number of enslaved Africans and free blacks who were exposed to (and subsequently converted to) Christianity.[4] It also inspired the founding of new missionary societies, such as the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792.[5]
  • THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING.
  • George Whitefield

    Great Awakening, religious revival in the British American colonies mainly between about 1720 and the 1740s. It was a part of the religious ferment that swept Western Europe in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century, referred to as Pietism and Quietism in continental Europe among Protestants and Roman Catholics and as Evangelicalism in England under the leadership of John Wesley (1703–91). The Puritan enthusiasm of the American colonies waned toward the end of the

  • THE THIRD GREAT AWAKENING IS NOW/
  • E REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED THIS TIME. IT WILL ALSO BE FEATURED ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.