Well on this episode of five minutes in church history we are returning to a good old friend of ours

Jonathan Edwards let's look specifically at a moment in 1721 in his life and that is his conversion.

Well we can use the journalist's questions, who, what, where, when, how to get at this.

The who is

is God and the who is God and the conversion that God brought about in the life of

Edwards.

The what? Well, that's in the title isn't it we're talking about the conversion of Jonathan Edwards that's the what the where well that's in beautiful, bucolic, colonial New England, right along the riverbed of the

Connecticut River and in that beautiful Connecticut River Valley.

The Wen, 1721. Now let's get into the how of

Jonathan Edwards conversion. Now to do this we have some help from Edwards himself. Now, to do this, we have some help from Edwards himself.

In 1734, a good dozen or so years past his conversion.

Aaron Burr, Sr, it wasn't senior at the time, but just Aaron Burr was a student at Yale.

And he wrote to Jonathan Edwards a Yale alum to help him,

that is Aaron Burr, and his fellow students

by writing down his own conversion.

And Jonathan Edwards agreed to that and wrote out what was called the personal

narrative.

Just as an aside, this was reprinted many times.

In fact, I'm holding a copy from the early This was reprinted

a copy from the early 1800s that was reprinted by the American Tract Society

and it says at the bottom,

first edition, 6,000 copies and it's a little bit of a

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