{"id":66,"date":"2013-07-12T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macyplace.com\/tom\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2013-07-12T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:40:18","slug":"impact-of-the-first-great-awakening-on-baptists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/12\/impact-of-the-first-great-awakening-on-baptists\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of the First Great Awakening on Baptists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Evangelists\u201d is the sixth segment in The Courage of Your Faith series. At the start of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century, Baptists were a minority in the New World. By 1750, they had grown to become a spiritual force of great influence. Why? Here is perhaps one reason. \u201cThe pioneer spirit combined with the movement of God\u2019s Spirit in the first Great Awakening to produce massive growth of Baptists in New England, the Middle Colonies, and particularly the South.\u201d [Nettles, Tom, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Baptists<\/span>, Volume 2, p.49] Our Lord was doing something remarkable in the New World, and Baptists had become an integral part of it.<\/p>\n<p>See more at \u201c<a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.coyfaith.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coyfaith.com\/\">The Courage of Your Faith<\/a>,\u201d this month featuring \u201c<a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.macyplace.com\/coyf\/Featuring.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macyplace.com\/coyf\/Featuring.aspx\">The Evangelists<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The short stories have been compiled into one eBook which is downloadable from both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-courage-of-your-faith-thomas-macy\/1113898692?ean=2940015801767\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Courage-Your-Faith-ebook\/dp\/B00ANY241G\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1361396530&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+courage+of+your+faith\">Amazon<\/a> for a small fee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Evangelists\u201d is the sixth segment in The Courage of Your Faith series. At the start of the 18th century, Baptists were a minority in the New World. By 1750, they had grown to become a spiritual force of great influence. Why? Here is perhaps one reason. \u201cThe pioneer spirit combined with the movement of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/12\/impact-of-the-first-great-awakening-on-baptists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Impact of the First Great Awakening on Baptists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,57],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1745theevangelists","tag-baptist","tag-great-awakening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}