What Happened Before The Great Awakening

I am writing to tell the readers of The New York Times about what has happened in Boston because of the Great Awakening. Before the Great Awakening, the churches in my community were not preaching the truth of Christ. This led to many other issues, like the people having a harsh and uncaring form of Christianity. They also were missing the spiritual enthusiasm that they needed. Colleges for ministers also failed to do their part and helped strengthen the spiritual issues that we were struggling with. The churches started to join in with the Halfway Covenant, during the mid-1600’s, so the people that were not saved could become members of the church. Benjamin Trumbull even said, “The forms of religion were kept up, but there appeared but little of the power of it.” We even let the sinners have major parts and places in our church. Instead of the church changing the sinners, the sinners were changing the church.
George Whitefield came to America in 1738 and preached, which also had a big impact. Two of his friends, John and Charles Wesley, even helped to start the Methodist Revival in Mother England. The people in my community started coming back to God and seeing the wrong in their ways. Thousands of sinners came to know Christ, and many believers were revived. The people in my community prepared their hearts for religious and political freedom. We also started to have more worship in our churches, and we freely sang during the service. We also started new orphanages and colleges to spread God's love around to others. There was even a new missionary spirit that sparked, and it led many of our people to share their faith with those who did not believe. The Great Awakening gave us the much needed revival in our