movement that began with revivalists like Whitefield, Charles Wesley, his brother John, Gilbert Tennent and many others, and that would spread over the course of the centuries to touch every continent of the globe, the foundation was unswerving belief in the need for conversion (the New Birth) and the necessity of a life of active holiness (the power of godliness). As the discussion in Boston on 19 September 1740 went on, Whitefield made a further statement to his sceptical interrogators that was