American Revivals: Key to Shaping US History

cbn ^ | 11-27-2015 | Paul Strand

[djone]

'Some argue America was not built on Christian principles and that even the founders had a weak faith.

What many don't realize is that a massive revival broke out in the 1700s that left a radical mark on almost every founder. The Quakers proceeded to avidly live out this belief that men should be ruled from within by God, not from without by government.

"An official from England came trying to find the government for Philadelphia, and he had trouble finding it," Hyatt said. "And when he did find it, there was nobody there because the governing council only met once or twice a year as they felt there was a need."

[djone]

'(George) Whitefield stayed at Benjamin Franklin's home while preaching in Philadelphia. Franklin wrote of the revival's impact.

"From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk through the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street," Franklin wrote.'.....

Personally I think a revival is happening today in the U.S. Revivals however are not recognized by most people until years after. At fist they are thought to be religious nuts...

[nathanbedford]

Here is part of a reply of mine written in 2008 which anticipates this article:

The Great Awakening that occurred in those Meadows where the great revivalist of the first half of the 18th-century, George Whitfield, preached along with many others.

He was far, far more than the Billy Graham of his day. One can hardly overestimate the historical importance of The Great Awakening in colonial America. This was essentially a rural phenomenon, really the origins of the Chautauqua tradition which began because dissenting preachers were driven from towns with established churches, especially in New England. So they camped out.

Although profoundly Protestant, the phenomenon was essentially experiential, even ecstatic, as opposed to doctrinaire. This Awakening utterly changed the character of America, it set us on an entirely different religious course with an entirely different destiny from Europe. It probably made the revolution of 1776 possible. It explains American Protestantism, especially rural Protestantism.

[djone]

'Although profoundly Protestant, the phenomenon was essentially experiential, even ecstatic, as opposed to doctrinaire. This Awakening utterly changed the character of America,'

Thanks, Excellent.

Revivals, although begun in one certain group, has an effect that spreads through out Christianity. to move others away from dead doctrines to serve the living GOD.