One observer called the Great Awakening the greatest working of the Spirit of God since Pentecost. Today, W. Robert Godfrey takes us back to this period of widespread repentance and renewal. With your donation of any amount, request A Survey of Church History, Part 4 A.D. 1600–1800. You’ll receive W. Robert Godfrey’s teaching series on DVD, plus lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3811/survey-of-church-history Meet Today’s Teacher: W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California. He is the featured teacher for many Ligonier teaching series, including the six-part series A Survey of Church History. He is author of many books, including God’s Pattern for Creation, Reformation Sketches, and An Unexpected Journey. Meet the Host: Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children. Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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They used the word awakening as a very technical term. And what they meant was that sometimes you saw in a congregation or in several congregations or even more broadly sometimes, a responsiveness, an unusual responsiveness to the preaching of the gospel. But they all remembered the parable of the wheat and the tares.
They knew that it was possible for the sound doctrine of the word to fall on ground where it appeared there was response. But in fact, weeds soon choked it out.
Have you heard of the Great Awakening? It was a time of great religious interest that began in New England and spread throughout the American colonies. That will be our focus on this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. On Saturdays, you're hearing highlights from W. Robert Godfrey's six-part monumental study series on church history.
He's taken us to the early church, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation. And today we're visiting the 18th century, and he'll introduce us to the Great Awakening. If you'd like to continue studying this time in church history, really our family history, you can add part four of this overview of church history to your library when you make a year-end donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org.
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