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.
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