In this video, I survey the life and significance of George Whitefield. Whitefield, with Jonathan Edwards, was one of the most …
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More numbers for your Notebook: ~3,000,000 colonists in mid-1700’s, 2/3+ we’re in one manner or another Calvinists. 900,000 Presbyterian and 600,000 Congregational… and additional German Reformed, Low Countries Reformed, French Huguenots, Particular Baptist and Calvinistic Anglicans, like Whitefield. Reference: Bruce Gore’s Presbyterians and the American Revolution YouTube Series.
Talking about acoustics, sound travels more efficiently in cold weather also. We live about 5 miles from a train crossing and in the summer, you can barely hear the train. In Winter, it sounds like its in our backyard.
Johnathan Edwards and George Whitfield made a tragic mistake in steering the American church towards “Revivalism”. Thanks to them we have an army of eloquent Elmer Gantrys, that own the airwaves and parade around on stage pretending to be something they aren’t , authentic minsters of the gospel. They preach the false Arminian gospel of freewill, prevenient grace, and Gods universal love for all men and deny Gods electing love. They dont love Jesus as you erroneously say of these people, if they did they would preach John chapters 6, 10 and 17 correctly, they dont, if they were his sheep, they would hear his voice. In addition revivalism led people to believe their were two gospels, one you get from your local pastor and one that Is super charged and will “revive” you, this created chaos in the colonies and still does. It also led to higher life errors creating different classes of christians, the really spiritual “ revived “ people and the old dead ones, a precursor to the pentecostal movement. George Whitfield interestingly was just like the others who have followed him, he got rich just like the TV preachers today, he was pietistic and oblivious to how the Gospel should impact people to confront the evils around them, in his case slavery. Also Whitfield erroneously praised the Wesleys even though they taught the false gospel of Arminianism. Now Arminianism is taught from 90 percent of the pulpits and the weak Calvinists like you claim they “love Jesus”, at the same time these people are bringing “open Theism” into the church, This also happened under Whitfield and Edwards, within 5 years of the great Awakening , Harvard fell to the Unitarians and Johnathan Edwards got kicked out of his church. Prima facia evidence it was mostly just howling at the moon and mass hysteria. Real revivals looks like the reformation, it turns people into Bible students, changes society, creates peace among the brethren not division and proclaims the saving sovereign Grace of Christ not the freewill of men, which since you haven’t figured it out yet are two very different things. If people want to see actors on stage. They can go the theatre. Revivalism has been a disaster for the American church and America, as a result America is the new burned over district, full of cynics, new agers, cultists and the self help gospel of the Evanjellycal church.
Pastor, thank you for this video – very interesting. Can you recommend some books on heresies (historical and present), or do a video on heresies? Blessings.
Oh, you people (Americans, Protestants, amateur historians, apologists): Neither of these men carries one tithe of the long-lasting effect of Wesley. Find me a Congregationalist Church, or a Calvinist Anglican today. That stuff died on the vine, while it WAS an important precursor to the American Revolution. By the 1770s Church attendance was at an all time low. Freemasonry and Unitarianism held sway in all circles of power. Anglicans had become happy slave owners. Puritanism devolved, as it HAD TO, into OCD cleanliness. Whitfield was unable to convince his friend Ben Franklin of the Christian Faith. Edwards has a spotty reputation at best, and I'm waiting on the definitive biography.
Whitefield and Edwards owning slaves is neither sinful nor despicable. That is merely offensive to modern sensibilities. The bible is far more concerned with how one treats their labor than whether that labor is "free."
More numbers for your Notebook: ~3,000,000 colonists in mid-1700’s, 2/3+ we’re in one manner or another Calvinists. 900,000 Presbyterian and 600,000 Congregational… and additional German Reformed, Low Countries Reformed, French Huguenots, Particular Baptist and Calvinistic Anglicans, like Whitefield. Reference: Bruce Gore’s Presbyterians and the American Revolution YouTube Series.
Talking about acoustics, sound travels more efficiently in cold weather also. We live about 5 miles from a train crossing and in the summer, you can barely hear the train. In Winter, it sounds like its in our backyard.
Thank you for this informative overview Pastor, much appreciated
thanks pastor matt. for sharing. it was good. God bless
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Johnathan Edwards and George Whitfield made a tragic mistake in steering the American church towards “Revivalism”. Thanks to them we have an army of eloquent Elmer Gantrys, that own the airwaves and parade around on stage pretending to be something they aren’t , authentic minsters of the gospel. They preach the false Arminian gospel of freewill, prevenient grace, and Gods universal love for all men and deny Gods electing love. They dont love Jesus as you erroneously say of these people, if they did they would preach John chapters 6, 10 and 17 correctly, they dont, if they were his sheep, they would hear his voice. In addition revivalism led people to believe their were two gospels, one you get from your local pastor and one that Is super charged and will “revive” you, this created chaos in the colonies and still does. It also led to higher life errors creating different classes of christians, the really spiritual “ revived “ people and the old dead ones, a precursor to the pentecostal movement. George Whitfield interestingly was just like the others who have followed him, he got rich just like the TV preachers today, he was pietistic and oblivious to how the Gospel should impact people to confront the evils around them, in his case slavery. Also Whitfield erroneously praised the Wesleys even though they taught the false gospel of Arminianism. Now Arminianism is taught from 90 percent of the pulpits and the weak Calvinists like you claim they “love Jesus”, at the same time these people are bringing “open Theism” into the church, This also happened under Whitfield and Edwards, within 5 years of the great Awakening , Harvard fell to the Unitarians and Johnathan Edwards got kicked out of his church. Prima facia evidence it was mostly just howling at the moon and mass hysteria. Real revivals looks like the reformation, it turns people into Bible students, changes society, creates peace among the brethren not division and proclaims the saving sovereign Grace of Christ not the freewill of men, which since you haven’t figured it out yet are two very different things. If people want to see actors on stage. They can go the theatre. Revivalism has been a disaster for the American church and America, as a result America is the new burned over district, full of cynics, new agers, cultists and the self help gospel of the Evanjellycal church.
Would be good to see more pastors doing dedicated gospel sermons as they did in years gone by. It's almost non existent in churches today.
Pastor, thank you for this video – very interesting. Can you recommend some books on heresies (historical and present), or do a video on heresies? Blessings.
Oh, you people (Americans, Protestants, amateur historians, apologists): Neither of these men carries one tithe of the long-lasting effect of Wesley. Find me a Congregationalist Church, or a Calvinist Anglican today. That stuff died on the vine, while it WAS an important precursor to the American Revolution. By the 1770s Church attendance was at an all time low. Freemasonry and Unitarianism held sway in all circles of power. Anglicans had become happy slave owners. Puritanism devolved, as it HAD TO, into OCD cleanliness.
Whitfield was unable to convince his friend Ben Franklin of the Christian Faith.
Edwards has a spotty reputation at best, and I'm waiting on the definitive biography.
Peace and grace. God bless darling. May you continue steadfast in the ways of our Sovereign Savior. Congratulations here in Brazil.
Whitefield and Edwards owning slaves is neither sinful nor despicable. That is merely offensive to modern sensibilities. The bible is far more concerned with how one treats their labor than whether that labor is "free."