{"id":4803,"date":"2020-07-13T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:31:20","slug":"baptist-history-heritage-distinctives-americas-first-camp-meeting-started-by-the-baptists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awarningministry.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/baptist-history-heritage-distinctives-americas-first-camp-meeting-started-by-the-baptists\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – America\u2019s First Camp Meeting started by the Baptists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u200eThomas E Kresal<\/a>\u200e\u00a0to<\/em>Baptist Church History<\/a>13 mins<\/a><\/abbr> July 13, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – America\u2019s First Camp Meeting started by the Baptists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The participants turned the associational meeting into an encampment. Thus in 1758, the era of the \u2018camp-meeting\u2019 in America began at Sandy Creek under Shubal Stearns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most Baptist institutions of higher learning, credit for the origin of the camp meeting is given to the Presbyterian or the Methodist, who supposedly were the driving force of the great revival of Kentucky 1700-1805. Supposedly, the camp meeting was a by-product of the ministry of the Presbyterian James McGready. The large meetings held at Red River and Cane Ridge, Kentucky are cited as the first camp meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even Presbyterian and Methodist historians such as Charles Johnson recognize the fact that the camp meeting had its beginning 50 years earlier in the foothills of the Appalachian in the central west North Carolina at Sandy Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from: The Collegiate Baptist History Workbook by James R. Beller p. 215<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is available at\u00a0prairiefirepress.com<\/a>\u00a0I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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