Evangelical History

Free George Whitefield Curriculum at TGC

As we approach a new academic year, and as new Sunday School classes and sermon series start at many churches, I wanted to give you a heads-up about a free George Whitefield curriculum I posted at TGC a couple years ago on the occasion of Whitefield’s 300th birthday. I envision this three-week series being used in adult Sunday School classes, small groups, or perhaps Sunday or Wednesday evening talks.

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George Whitefield, Wikimedia Commons

From the introduction to the curriculum:

“George Whitefield was the pre-eminent evangelist of the Great Awakening, and arguably the best-known figure in 18th-century Britain and America. Whitefield’s fame has receded in the centuries since his death in 1770, and has certainly been surpassed by Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening’s leading pastor-theologian. A consistent advocate of Reformed theology and perhaps the most accomplished orator in evangelical history, Whitefield deserves to be known widely among Christians today.

What follows is a three-lesson curriculum for the use of pastors and other church leaders who might want to do a sermon, a lesson, or a short series on Whitefield. The first lesson is a comprehensive overview of Whitefield’s life and ministry, while lessons two and three focus on Whitefield’s Calvinism, and his views on slavery.”

Check out the whole curriculum here. Note also that my George Whitefield biography has just come out in a paperback edition from Yale University Press.

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