Revivals, Universities, & the preaching of Jonathan Edwards

American Minute ^ | October 5, 2019 | Bill Federer

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Religious revivals have a long history of preaching out of doors.

The great London preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote:

"It would be very easy to prove that revivals of religion have usually been accompanied, if not caused, by a considerable amount of preaching out of doors, or in unusual places."

For two thousand years, out of doors preaching by gifted evangelists resulted in the founding of religious orders, movements, denomination, charity organizations, colleges and universities.

Examples include:

Apostle Paul preaching to the Gentiles, St. Patrick and the Irish missionaries, Peter Waldo and the Waldensians, St. Francis and the Franciscans, St. Dominic and the the Dominicans, John Wycliffe and the Lollards, Savanarola, Dominican Friar, John Knox and the Presbyterians, George Fox and the Quakers, John and Charles Wesley and the Methodists, George Whitefield and innumerable revival preachers, William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army, and many others.

Charles Spurgeon added:

"Open-air preaching ... is the very backbone of the movement to win the non-churched ...

Glorious were those great gatherings in the fields and commons which lasted throughout the long period in which Wesley and Whitefield blessed our nation.

... Field preaching was the wild note of the birds singing in the trees, in testimony that the true spring-time of religion had come ...

It was a blessed day when Methodists and others began to proclaim Jesus in open air; then were the gates of hell shaken, and the captives of the devil were set free by hundreds and thousands."

Open air preaching meetings in Scotland were called "holy fairs," which stirred revivals which immigrants brought to America.

Scottish minister William Tennent migrated to Pennsylvania in 1718 and together with his son Gilbert Tennent began the

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Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.

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How about that John Edward from ‘rat VP/PREZ timber? Banging his campaign”film maker” Rielle Hunter (speaking of Hunter...oh wait) while his poor wife Elizabeth was dying of cancer.

SUBHUMAN SCUM ALERT! You’re NOTHING girls/ladies/women. SORRY. RIGHT Bill, Hillary, Harvey. Jeffrey, et.al?

Where’s Ghislaine?

(sorry to sully your post)

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