It may have been Stephen who before the Sanhedrin gave one of the best surveys of the Old Testament in proclaiming Christ as the Promised Messiah. There is also Alexander Maclaren, John Mac Arthur, Billy Graham, or Billy Sunday. Maybe the greatest of the post-biblical era preachers is reading this today or hasn’t even been born.
Identify 3 of America's famous evangelists during the 1800s and early 1900s. Charles Finney, Dwight L Moody, Billy Sunday. The man who controlled much of America's steel business in the late 19th century.
Paul was so bold that he once walked right into the Areopagus, and preached to thousands of Greeks who knew nothing of the One, True God. He told them in contrast to the altar that was dedicated to the “unknown god” he was about to proclaim to them the “God who made the world and everything in it” (Acts 17:23-24).
Martin-Lloyd Jones, himself one of the greatest preachers of all time, says that George Whitfield was the greatest preachers that England ever produced. Of course, this was prior to Charles Haden Spurgeon.
People & Ideas: Charles Finney. Lawyer, theologian and college president, Charles Grandison Finney was also the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening. He did not merely lead revivals; he actively marketed, promoted and packaged them.
Generals Charles FinneyGod's Generals Charles Finney: The Father of Modern Revivalism.
Evangelist Charles Grandison Finney held a massive religious revival in Rochester, New York, lasting several months, from September 1830 to March 1831. People used the Canal to travel from as far away as 100 miles to hear him speak.
He was an outspoken abolitionist and championed other social reforms in the nineteenth century. In contrast to most churches, who encouraged women to not actively participate in services, Finney asked women to pray aloud at his revivals.
The Puritan fervour waned toward the end of the 17th century, but the Great Awakening (c. 1720–50), America's first great revival, under the leadership of Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and others, revitalized religion in the North American colonies.
Which revivalist said, "The great business of the church is to reform the world"? Ralph Waldo Emerson.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second-fastest growing church in the United States, according to the 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, published by the National Council of Churches.
Most historians consider Jonathan Edwards, a Northampton Anglican minister, one of the chief fathers of the Great Awakening. Edwards' message centered on the idea that humans were sinners, God was an angry judge and individuals needed to ask for forgiveness. He also preached justification by faith alone.
Great Awakening refers to a number of periods of religious revival in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century.
Warren, CTCharles Grandison Finney / Place of birthWarren is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,351 at the 2020 census. The town was named for Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren. On July 1, 2006, businessman Joseph Cicio placed most of Warren's commercial district on eBay for $5,000,000. Wikipedia
He enjoyed great success, particularly in Upstate New York, a region that Finney called “the burned over district.” Finney's revivals emphasized human action, and he encouraged his converts to join various reform organizations, including avoiding alcohol and eventually opposing slavery.
Charles Grandison Finney rejected Puritan, or Calivinist, theology, a dogma where only a few were chosen by God for salvation. Finney offered new hope to the masses by declaring that one could become saved through acceptance of God's grace.
T. L. Osborn. T. L. Osborn was the first missionary evangelist to hold meetings in open fields and parks in non-Christian nations, to proclaim Christ and pray for miracles as proof that Jesus is alive. Today open air meetings have become standard procedure.
Oral Roberts was a forerunner of unity and reconciliation in the body of Christ during a time when society was calling for segregation . His sermon "The Fourth Man" is a classic for every serious student of Pentecostal history.
In 1947 Oral Roberts resigned his pastorate to enter an evangelistic ministry to pray for the "healing of the whole man." Since then he has conducted more than 300 evangelistic and healing crusades on six continents and has appeared as a guest speaker for hundreds of national and international meetings and conventions. A pioneer in tent evangelism, Dr. Oral Roberts was a forerunner of unity and reconciliation in the body of Christ during a time when society was calling for segregation. His sermon "The Fourth Man" is a classic for every serious student of Pentecostal history. Oral Roberts is one of the greatest Gospel evangelists of all times!
The ministry's tent would seat over 22,000 people.
Aimee Semple McPherson was the glamorous and flamboyant founder of the Foursquare Church and the nation's first Christian radio station. Listen to her minister to people that don't think they need to be ready to enter into heaven. Her sermons were some of the greatest among the tent preachers first to incorporate the contemporary communications ...
In this tent meeting, Coe challenges people to believe God to heal every disease, even the "hard ones.". During his preaching, Coe would stir people up with his pointed and very direct way of addressing everyday problems.
Martin-Lloyd Jones, himself one of the greatest preachers of all time, says that George Whitfield was the greatest preachers that England ever produced. Of course, this was prior to Charles Haden Spurgeon.
Jack Wellman is a father and grandfather and a Christian author and pastor of Heritage Evangelical Free Church in Udall, KS & also a Prison Minister. He did his graduate work at Moody Theological Seminary.
Who can argue that the Apostle Paul was not the most effective preacher of the Word. We cannot overlook Paul just because He was the most prolific of writers in the New Testament or that he planted churches throughout the Roman Empire because much of his of preaching was done in his letters to the churches.
He was one of the first preachers to preach progressively through each book of the Bible. He never preached topologically but his was expository; that is he exposited or preached from line to line giving a personal commentary for each verse. His writings made the Bible easy to understand, even to the uneducated.