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This revival movement occurred on both sides of the Atlantic.
As the decades passed in the original Puritan communities of New England, a certain blas* attitude developed among the children and grandchildren of the non-conformists who had fled Britain rather than pretend to believe something they really didn't.
They would get up in the morning, buckle their Pilgrim buckles and wear their faith as a fashion.
The Holy Spirit began to move pastors to preach out against this dissipation, to boldly preach Christ crucified, to encourage their listeners to profess trust in God's promises.
Itinerant preachers spread out all through the 13 colonies working mighty works of faith: hundreds of thousands of people came forward and were saved. Whole towns were transformed into "1st Century Christian" communities; God's praises and spiritual hymns were to be heard in the streets all day long.
The changes God worked then in people's hearts and minds ensured that the U.S. would be a Christian country and the democratic spirit of the 1st century church congregations was thereby transmitted to 18th century America, paving the way for the American Revolution.
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