CH241 The History of Christianity in the United States (Biblia.com)

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In The History of Christianity in the United States, Chris Armstrong provides an introduction to the major movements, ideas, figures, and events in American church history, from colonization to recent decades. See how transplanted European churches took root, and American originals sprang up, over the course of five centuries of challenges and opportunities: early settlements, the expansion of...

Those two kinds of activism—missions and social reform—would be the thrust of evangelicalism coming out of the Great Awakening and onwards. As George Whitefield wrote in a 1739 letter, “We must be workers together with [God]; for a true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy, until it is doing something for Jesus Christ.”

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