Reform of Church

The Second Great Awakening was based, like the first, on religious review of the systems of worship that were set in place. People of the Protestant community now branching out and kind of starting their own way. One example is the coming of the new Methodist church. This church broke new innovations with examples being, circuit riders, women speaking in church, multiple preachers, and new innovations to ideas of worshipping. Circuit riders was a new idea that I group of untrained preachers would ride around, pushing west, to reach settlers and tell them about the gospel. It would take about two weeks for the group to complete the circuit and come home. The new preachers did not have any degree or training they were people who had been saved and had the, "calling to preach." This being a new idea as most preachers had training. They were also much used as circuit riders because they were cheap labor. A new idea also was the idea of women speaking in church. This being that women traditionally were allowed to sit and be quiet so to say in the Calvinistic churches. The new idea that women would finally stand up, speech, praise, and even spew in tongues according to their feelings of the sermon. New ideas of worship included how the new sermons were relatable to yourself and not just a broad message. Revivals were held often to spread the word more to non believers and even one town had all people convert. These were the new ideas and worship processes the Second Great Awakening brought to the Americas.