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.