started, he was kicked out of the churches because they were like no, no, no nower goes to us. he was saying to the people, no, power comes from god. you don t really need anybody in between you and god. listen to god. god will tell you what to do. have a personal relationship with god. well, that changed things here in america because he came over on the boat and he decided wow! america is going into spiritual darkness. it s what is called the first great awakening and it spread to all of the preachers. those preachers preached that from 1740 until 1780. that period inspired our founders. a lot of the words that came from the pulpit are in the founding documents. we talked a little bit about this on this program. and then last friday, 8-27, the night before, my wife and i rented the kennedy center. and we invited a few people
george whitefield. george whitefield is a guy from england who just started, he was kicked out of the churches because they were like no, no, no nower goes to us. he was saying to the people, no, power comes from god. you don t really need anybody in between you and god. listen to god. god will tell you what to do. have a personal relationship with god. well, that changed things here in america because he came over on the boat and he decided wow! america is going into spiritual darkness. it s what is called the first great awakening and it spread to all of the preachers. those preachers preached that from 1740 until 1780. that period inspired our founders. a lot of the words that came from the pulpit are in the founding documents. we talked a little bit about this on this program. and then last friday, 8-27, the night before, my wife and i rented the kennedy center.