A Move Of God - A New Awakening (notes)

A Move Of God - A New Awakening

God Is Doing Something in the earth today that is bigger than any one ministry, one personality, one religious organization or Christian denomination.

God Promised To empower His church for the purpose of winning the world for Jesus Christ.

Acts 1:8

Lets Look At The First Great Awakening.

It led to changes in American colonial society.

1st Great Awakening

In New England, it was influential among many Congregationalists.

In the Middle and Southern colonies, especially in the “Backcountry” regions, the Awakening was influential among the Presbyterians.

In The Southern Tidewater

And Low Country, northern Baptist and Methodist preachers converted both whites and blacks, enslaved the free. The Baptists especially welcomed blacks into important roles such as preachers.

Before The American Revolution the first black Baptist churches were founded in the South in Virginia, two black Baptist churches were founded before any white one.

The Main Thrust of the First Great Awakening was in New England. George Whitefield traveled through the colonies in 1739 and 1740. Everywhere he attracted large and emotional crowds with man conversions to Jesus Christ.

An Other Great Spokesman of that move of God was Jonathan Edwards whose famous servant “Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God” sparked others to imitate his style spreading revival fires from New England to Georgia, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, and in the back country as well as in seaboard towns and cities.

Benjamin Franklin Became an enthusiastic supporter of George Whitefield, the most popular roving preacher of the movement.

Ben printed Whitefield’s sermons and journals. Half of Franklin’s publications in 1739-41 were of Whitefield.

God Sent A mighty demonstration of His Glory right before America was founded as a free country.

What can we learn about this?

1. Revival impacted a young nation.
2. Revival impacted some of the influential people at the time.
3. Revival happened when American was being formed as a nation.

Acts 2

Gives us the model for revival.

1. The Holy Spirit is poured out.
2. The church gets fired up--tongues and fire.
3. The believers devoted themselves to the word of the apostles, to fellowship, sharing meals (including the Lord’s Supper) and to prayer.
4. People were amazed with the miracles.
5. The Christians shared everything with each other.
6. Daily they were in the House of God.
7. Daily they fellowshipped.
8. Daily God added to their number.

What Can We Expect?

1. God to move here
2. God to move in America again
3. God to shake the world.