This is the Baymaw Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we leave the French Revolution behind and move into the modern era.

How did we handle our newfound land of freedom and independence? How did it impact our theology and our ecclesiology?

We have a typical presentation. We're going to finish up the timeline that we have had for the last two episodes. We're going to head into the next timeline that we have for the next little part of your presentation. That's how we're moving here.

As the age of the Revolution changed the cultural setting for Christendom, there was a new push to get our bearings as a faith movement. For almost 1400 years the world of Christendom had enjoyed being the privileged default of culture.

If you unplugged the Western world and plugged it back in, the default setting would have blinked Christian.

But now with the rise of the age of enlightenment, Christendom's white knuckle grip on theology, creeds, doctrinal truths did not age well.

As the world became more and more knowledgeable, more and more educated, more and more literate, simply affirming creedal beliefs wasn't holding a candle to the scientific method.

But before we talk about science, we should talk about this new culture of independence, Brent Millions. The impact it had on our own shores here in Hashtag, America.

We made a declaration about it. We made a declaration. This movement of culture away from Christianity had a positive effect for Christendom has a whole.

In an effort to regain what was being lost, Protestant believers fell into what is often referred to as the second great awakening.

The first great awakening, you might remember, is usually attributed to the rise of Methodism. We can talk about John Wesley, I believe that was the last episode.

Mid 1700s, this great time of revival was ushered in throughout the North America, throughout Europe, and through what we commonly know, this great awakening took place in what we commonly know as camp meetings.

I have been to a camp meeting. You have been to a camp meeting.

Pretty recently. Some new about you, every day Brent Millions. My good friend Abby, her dad's Baptist church. They had me come and take some pictures.

That's cool. Love it.

These camp meeting revivals, back in the day, I don't know what it was like when you went there, but these revivals became a time for denominations to come together, enjoy fellowship, worship, and preaching.

Such a focus and desire to experience true confession and true repentance would lead to great times of spiritual revival and movement. That's pretty much what it was.

Yeah, you felt that? That's kind of cool. Love that.

Many attribute the rise of Pentecostalism, what we know as Pentecostalism. We got Pentecostalistiners. So definitely not using that term in a negative, positive way, just what it is. The rise of Pentecostalism.

Many attribute that rise to these experiences where the Holy Spirit seemed to be poured out in abundance. What is widely accepted. And you can kind of feel that, Brent.

Like up to this point, we've been talking a lot about science and mathematics and academics and systems and Protestant reformations. And it's like, okay, but where's the art?

What's the beauty? Where's the, quite literally, where's the Holy Spirit in all of this? And so these camp meetings and this independence that was starting to thrive, the personal individual wanting to follow God with all their heart and all their soul and all their might. It was leading to the movement of the Holy Spirit.

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