George Whitefield George Whitefield was a Methodist preacher during the First Great Awakening. He was born in Gloucester‚ England on December 16‚ 1714 and was buried in Newburyport‚ Massachusetts on September 30‚ 1770. Whitefield took voyages to the New World seven times‚ voyages whose one-way trips took two months. He called both sides of the Atlantic “home”. He was the most traveled preacher of the gospel up to his time and many feel he was the greatest evangelist of all time. His diligence
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George Whitefield‚ also spelled George Whitfield‚ was an English Anglican cleric who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Born in Gloucester‚ he matriculated at Pembroke College at the University of Oxford in 1732. He was born December 16‚ 1714. He died on September 30 1770. He joined the "Holy Club" and was introduced to the Wesley brothers‚ John and Charles‚ who he would work closely with in his later ministry. Whitefield was ordained after receiving his Bachelor of
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George Whitefield: Evangelist for God In the study of evangelism‚ there can be no greater blessing than to study the lives of those who have been used of God in the area of sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. George Whitefield is definitely one of those mighty blessed of God individuals who dedicated their lives to itinerant evangelism. His childhood was normal‚ his youth somewhat dangerous. He lived on the edge of God’s calling on his life inching closer to the purpose of God in his
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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 land. Although the name is slightly misleading--the Great Awakening was not one continuous revival‚ rather it was several revivals in a variety of locations--it says a great deal about the state of religion in the colonies. For the simple reality is that one cannot be awakened unless
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Wesley brothers gone‚ and their mission foundation in shambles. Without thinking twice‚ Whitefield bean to piece it back together. It didn’t take him long to realize the city of Savannah was in need of an orphanage. Although the Charles Wesley had previously considered the idea of an orphanage‚ it had never come into fruition. Whitefield decided to make the orphanage a central part of his ministry. Soon Whitefield met Johann Martin Bolzius‚ a Salzburg Lutheran disciple who had founded and orphanage
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“Methodist” was given by other fellow students because of their methodical way of being religious. 3. John Wesley‚ Charles Wesley and George Whitefield are the three important figures in founding Methodism. 4. For John Wesley and Charles Wesley‚ they were the first ones to create Methodism when they first founded the devotional groups in collage. For George Whitefield‚ he was the most Methodist preacher giving lots of influence to the Churches. 5. 5 Core beliefs of Methodism * We are all
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and bore the people. He noticed that people didn`t really know much about Christ‚ so he decided to pass it on. Another minister named Jonathan Edwards‚ gave such passionate sermons that it brought many peoples attention (Great Awakening).George Whitefield‚ a histronic man with a very loud voice. His sermons were heard by Benjamin Franklin‚ who was a worldy man‚ but his opinion was changed from this preacher. Another principle leader in the south
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Awakening. Two of the religious men were George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards. Whitefield was a young Anglican preacher‚ everywhere he went he brought an ample amount of people and converted them. Whitefield claimed that God was lenient and forgiving‚ rather than telling people they were all going to hell because they were sinners. Edwards was the beginning of the revival‚ he emphasized the power of an extant and intimate religious experience. Like Whitefield‚ Edwards attracted large crowds with his
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missionaries to the South. By the eve of the American Revolution‚ the evangelical converts accounted for about ten percent of all southern churchgoers. The First Great Awakening also gained strength from the travels of an English preacher‚ George Whitefield. Whitefield and his crew of Anglican clergyman led a movement to reform the Church of England which resulted in the founding of the Methodist Church late in the eighteenth century. During his several trips across the Atlantic
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The First Great Awakening in America - George Whitefield As Whitefield arrived in America‚ a number of regional revivals were under way. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania William Tennant and his four sons preached the new birth to Presbyterians. Tennant was fed up with the resistance of Yale and Harvard Administrators to the new evangelical fervor‚ and he founded his own school to train preachers. Derisively his school was called‚ "log college‚" but it would lead to the formation of Princeton University
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