Christian History Magazine—Issue 23: Spiritual Awakenings in North America (Biblia.com)

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Three Great Awakenings on the eastern seaboard mark the spiritual highs of 18th and 19th century American Christianity. Congregations lulled to sleep by dreary, hypocritical leaders were roused by the raw intensity of the Holy Spirit’s presence in the words spoken and lives lived by Stoddard, Edwards, Wesley, Asbury, Finney, Whitefield, Frelinghuysen and others. Open this issue of Christian...

Revival and mass evangelism are NOT the same thing. Certainly in all genuine movements of God’s Spirit, people are converted. But if a society has been bathed in the teachings of the gospel for a long period, evangelism may not be the central thrust. This was the case in the Welsh revival of 1905. In examining the example of Pentecost in Acts 2, we see that the awakening of Christ’s redeemed people and the bestowal of the Holy Spirit at the “birthday” of the Church (2:1–4) was followed by evangelism

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