Evangelism

 1940 part 1, 

1970 part 2, full gospel, charismatic

 

Jonathan Edwards, (1703-1758)

George Whitefield, (1714-1770)

 

Charles Spurgeon,(1834-1892)

 

Dwight Moody (1837-1899) (revivalism, working in civil War with Union troops through YMCA, In Chicago built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation. Worked with singer “Ira Sankey” Started in 1858, Sunday School. Church Illinois Street Church in 1864, 

Billy Sunday (1862-1935)

Billy Graham, (1918-2018)

RC Sproul, (1939-2017)

 

4:08, Pentecostal (speaking in Tongues) vs Charismatic (signs and wonders)

70’s and 80’s

Chuck Smith, Jesus Revolution 

Pat Boone

Begins of what with evolve into modern Christian music

Baptizing in a swimming pool

 

Primitivism, desire to get back to it’s pure state, ACTS 2

Denominations have added to much to the core

Anybody can administrate communion and baptism

Hale Linsey, The great planet early

Billy Graham gave a blessing to them so church wouldn’t right them off

 

Jack Hyles, “Jesus had short hair”

 

Sexual revolution

Tight rigid lifestyle, rebell against fundamentalism 

 

Political wing

Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority

America as a Christian Nation

 

Abortion

Gay rights, 70’s

Pornography

Banning of prayer in public school

Teaching of evolution in school but not creation

 

Pat Robinson 

James Dobson

 

Militant Fundamentalists 

 

Carl Henry’s lead to get back in the cultural

 

RC Sproul (4:20)

1968-1974, founded Ligonier Valley Study Center

A place to get help with the tough answers

Not to run from the hard questions

“The shallow religious views of our time”

Every American was a Christian

Who is God?

James Montgomery Boyce

Same thing as Princetonions did

 

Council of 

Chicago Statement of Biblical inerrancy 

Agreed, signed name on 400 leaders 12 page statement, 

David Wells, No place for truth, whatever happen to evangelicals theology

1980, marketers, seeker theology