{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"Revival in the Age of Reason","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a0e5b145\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4157,"description":"We're back in the Third Space Studio to continue our trip through history and how evangelism has developed. This time we're concentrating on the 1600s to the 1700s, as the Western world departs from Christendom following the Reformation into the new Age of Reason.\nThe events of that time impact on how we evangelise today. Science and technology became far more influential on people's thoughts as the authority of the church and the Bible are called into question. But as Christianity is put on trial, obedience to God and His Holy Spirit, leads to a number of revivals and a return to the importance of personal faith.\n01:21 Cultural Artefact - Benjamin Franklin in Church History in Plain Language, by Bruce Shelley\n13:36 The rise of reason and de-mythologising the natural world\n21:15 Christianity on trial and from sectarianism to denominationalism\n30:09 The Great Awakening and individual conversion\n56:59 Trial brings revival\n1:00:14 Evangelism is a spiritual endeavour\nWatch this episode on YouTube\nDISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE\nChurch History in Plain Language, by Bruce Shelley\nResearch on evangelism by Barna:\nMillennials Oppose Evangelism\nSharing Faith Increasingly Optional to Christians\nIs Evangelism Going Out of Style?\nThe Stats Behind Re-thinking Evangelism\nNicolaus Copernicus\nJohannes Kepler\nGalileo Galilei\nIsaac Newton\nThe Thunderstorm that Changed Martin Luther's Life\nThe Great Awakening\nJonathan Edwards\nSinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards\nJohn Wesley\nGeorge Whitefield\nBebbington's Quadrilateral\nThe Spirit of Gen Y\nCONTACT US\nEmail: joel@shockabsorber.com.au\nDiscord: https://discord.gg/jTD5KNAYVE\nWebsite: https://www.shockabsorber.com.au","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}