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Asbury Revival vs. He Gets Us: What’s the Best Way to Reach a Post-Christian Culture?

Truth Over Tribe: Christian Takes on Culture, News & Politics

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He Gets Us vs Asbury Revival

The first great revival in American history happened back in the 1740s and included names like John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield. Charles Finney used to have something called an anxious bench where people who felt like God was saying something to them would come up front and sit there before he preached directly to them. The second great awakening happened in the early 1800s and evangelicalism was established in the United States through these revivals. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian or not, Historians root back into that awakening for things like women's suffrage,. Things like temperance, prison reform, etc.

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