About this episode

Pastor Sam Rainer discusses the church's influence during America's expansion in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

In this special summer series, Pastor Sam Rainer walks through six eras of American history and explains the church’s impact in each era. As America expanded in the late 1700s and into the 1800s, Christians moved with the people. Methodist circuit riders preached the gospel, and Baptists planted churches. The church’s mission traveled west.

People in this episode

Host: Pastor Sam Rainer

Topics covered

• American history
• Christianity
• church impact
• Methodist circuit riders
• Baptist churches
• westward expansion

Keywords

• Christian nation
• Second Great Awakening
• Methodist
• Baptist
• church planting
• westward movement
• American expansion

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Places: America

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