The Great awakening

The Great Awakening

The Great Awakening was a watershed event in the life of the American people. Before it was over, it had swept the colonies of the eastern seaboard, transforming the social and religious life of the land. Up and down the Eastern Seaboard, the land was littered with those unchurched. All that was required was a spark of revival to set the land afire with religious excitement. When this spark ignited, those who lead the revival were so surprised by what was happening, that they “attributed it entirely to God’s inscrutable grace.”
The primary spiritual leaders responsible for this religious revival are George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Timothy Dwight, John and Charles Wesley.
Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703 in East Windsor Connecticut. In 1720, Edwards graduated from Yale. By twenty-two years of age, he became the assistant pastor and later the pastor of a church in Northampton, Massachusetts. Early on into his pastoral career, he strug...