Awakening

Follow up to this post

On Saturday, my husband and I brought friends along and saw that movie I recommended to you last week, "A Great Awakening." 

As expected, the acting, photography, dialog, music, all the production values were good. In fact, it was so good that I hope many of you will choose to see it. 

The story is based on true facts. Ben Franklin was savvy enough in business to take advantage of a trend he saw developing. Though apparently not a Christian, he could see the potential of publishing the schedule and sermons of popular evangelist George Whitefield.

Whitefield represents the message of the Bible very well: Jesus Christ paid the whole price to reconcile us to God. We're not required to clean ourselves up first, but just to trust Him.

Did Franklin eventually turn to God? Maybe. Late in life, at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, he made a famous appeal to the delegates that could have come from Whitefield's influence--and possibly turned around the contentious convention.