Theology
Evangelism Training from George Whitfield
In the Spring of 1740 George Whitefield was travelling and preaching in what is now the USA. Unimaginable crowds attended his preaching and many people were converted. One of the people who came to a life-changing knowledge of Christ at this time was an Indian Trader known to us only as Mr M. His new found faith gave him a concern for the Allegany Indians among whom he had worked and he sought Whitefield’s help and advice in what he…
The Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards
In the 1740’s there was a massive expansion of Christianity throughout the English speaking world. In America this revival was called the Great Awakening. Revivals always produce controversy and the Great Awakening was no exception. There were four hundred clergymen in New England at this time and by the summer of 1743 one hundred and thirty of them had openly opposed the revival[1] Jonathan Edwards, the famous New England pastor, published three works in defence of the Great Awakening. In…