1. Jonathan Edwards

2. “[I wish] to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be all, that I might become as a little child.”
What childlike quality is he referring to in the context of this quote?

3. - Child prodigy; Yale at age 12
Became a minister like his father and grandfather
Very successful
he delivered a series of sermons that resulted in a great number of conversions.
His sermons helped trigger the Great Awakening

4. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is the most famous of 1200 sermons
In 1750, his church dismissed him because he wanted to limit membership to those who had undergone conversion.
Became President of Princeton University
By his death in 1758, the extremism of the Great Awakening had been rejected.

5. Sermon
A form of religious persuasion in which a speaker strongly urges listeners to behave in a more spiritual and moral fashion.

6. 3 components Purpose Audience Context Why the sermon is delivered
To whom the sermon is addressed
Context
When and where sermon is delivered

7. Three types of appeals Appeal to fear Appeal to pity Appeal to vanity
scare you into doing something
Appeal to pity
makes you feel sorry for something
Appeal to vanity
makes you feel good about yourself

8. Practice:
You who gossip about your neighbors- your tongues will shrivel even as you speak. End your gossiping ways!
Purpose? Audience? Context? Type of Appeal?

9. Purpose: warn against gossip
Audience: townspeople
Context: church/ town meeting
Appeal: fear