into the new history

Christianity was introduced to the Americas as it was first colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Immigration further increased Christian numbers. Today most Christian churches in the United States are Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, or Roman Catholic. Christian denominations in the United States are usually divided in three large groups, Evangelical Protestantism, Mainline Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. There are also Christian denominations that do not fall within either of these groups, such as Eastern Orthodoxy, but they are much smaller. Evangelicals held the view that the modernist and liberal parties in the Protestant churches had surrendered their heritage as Evangelicals by accommodating the views and values of the world. At the same time, they criticized their fellow Fundamentalists for their separatism and their rejection of the Social Gospel as it had been developed by Protestant activists of the previous century. They charged the modernists with having lost their identity as Evangelicals and the Fundamentalists with having lost the Christ-like heart of Evangelicalism. The first generation of New England Puritans required that church members undergo a conversion experience that they could describe publicly. Their successors were not as successful in reaping harvests of redeemed souls. The movement began with Jonathan Edwards, a Massachusetts preacher who sought to return to the Pilgrims' strict Calvinist roots.
Let us be active in sharing gospels to others and we will not just a passive. By this we saw how Christianity goes through different stages, through ups and downs in our Christianity life let us not be discouraged instead let our life be an example to others.

closing of 18th century

It is marked with the Great Awakening in America, along with theirs an expansion of Spaniards for Catholicism. By this great awakening our beliefs stretches to know the truth and we our not blinded to know who Christ is. People became passionately and emotionally involved in their religion, rather than passively listening to intellectual discourse in a detached manner. Ministers who used this new style of preaching were generally called "new lights", while the preachers of old were called "old lights". People began to study the bible at home. George Whitefield came over from England and made many converts. The Great Awakening emphasized the traditional Reformed virtues of Godly preaching, rudimentary liturgy, and a deep sense of personal guilt and redemption by Christ Jesus. It resulted from powerful preaching that deeply affected listeners with a deep sense of personal guilt and salvation by Christ. Pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the Great Awakening made religion personal to the average person.
How amazing that in the 18th Century still Christianity grows though there are some denominations at that time, but they didn't give up so that evangelicals would spread and grow. It had a major impact in reshaping the Congregational, Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, and German Reformed denominations, and it strengthened the small Baptist and Methodist denominations. It brought Christianity to the slaves and was an apocalyptic event in New England that challenged established authority.
 I learned that through Great Awakening we transformed into a life of Christianity that we know God. May our life be a channel of blessings, a salt and light of this world that willing to defend Christ and what we believe.

Ongoing conflicts afflicts Christianity

The almost constant awareness today in the western media of conflict associated with religion is reflected in a rapidly growing scholarly literature on the topic. At the forefront of such studies is a natural preoccupation with its most visual, newsworthy, and disruptive aspect its expression in physical violence. Conflict occurs when something is contested. Religious conflict is a much larger phenomenon, however, than religiously-motivated violence, while even religious violence itself is not simple.When we couple religion with conflict, we might expect that what is contested is ideology or morality (i.e., belief). Since the awakening of religion, wars have been fought in the name of different gods and goddesses. Still today most violent conflicts contain religious elements linked up with ethno national, inter-state, economic, territorial, cultural and other issues. Threatening the meaning of life, conflicts based on religion tend to become dogged, tenacious and brutal types of wars. When conflicts are couched in religious terms, they become transformed in value conflicts.
Despite an increase in the attention to the religious dimension of conflicts, it remains an under-researched field. There is no useful typology of religious conflicts; no serious study of the impact of religious organizations on conflict behavior; no comparative research of peace-making and peace-building efforts of different religious organizations.They will have to end conflicts fueled by religion, stop being passive bystanders and organize themselves to provide more effective peace services