Do we need another Great Awakening?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening

http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1657&C=1653

What I find interesting is that this first great awakening (1738-1740) helped lead to America's independence. After the Revolutionary War (1783-1800), our country went into a tailspin as public sin prevailed like never before:

"According to the late church historian, J. Edwin Orr, in the post Revolutionary War years, drunkenness was of epidemic proportions — of a population of four million, three hundred thousand were considered drunkards. Bank robberies occurred daily. Street crime, rape and murder was rampant and citizens were afraid to go out of their homes at night. Profanity was the worst imaginable, shocking in its filthiness.

The spiritual climate of the nation was disparaging. The Presbyterians met in general assembly to deplore the ungodliness of the country. Both the Methodists and Baptists were losing more members than they were gaining. The Lutherans and Episcopalians were struggling, and even considered a merger for the sake of survival. Episcopal Bishop of New York, Samuel Provoost, had confirmed no one for so long that he quit the ministry. Samuel Shepherd, a pastor in Lenox, Massachusetts, said that he had not taken one young person into church membership in sixteen years.

A poll at Harvard revealed that there was not one believer in the entire student body. At Princeton, only two believers were discovered among the students. Christianity was generally ridiculed. A mock communion was conducted at Williams College; Anti-Christian plays were performed at Dartmouth; In New Jersey, a Bible was taken from a Presbyterian church and burned in a public bonfire. Christians were such a minority on campuses that they met in secret and kept minutes in code so they wouldn’t be caught or persecuted.

The Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall, wrote that the Church was “too far gone ever to be revived.”

Well, another Great Awakening happened 1800-1840 that led to great revival...sin wasn't completely eradicated but it sure did help to have another Great Awakening!

Somebody asked Evangelist Billy Sunday this question: "Why do we always have revival meetings? Revival doesn't last." Rev. Sunday answered: "Neither does a bath but it sure does help!"

May God Almighty continue to work through His people and bring blessing to America!

Just a thought................