America’s Foundational Religion

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© 2026 Don Pinson (To download, right-click on the gray play bar and select “Save Audio As”)

“Education without the Bible is useless.” 

Those words were not spoken by a right-wing fundamentalist, or what the media might call “an ignorant backwoodsman.”  They were spoken by the man who was the Father of America’s original education system.  That educational system brought the greatest amount of liberty to the greatest number of people of any in world history, in that it produced the great

est Republic the world had ever known.  And while, in the last 100 years, we’ve done much to destroy that Republic, we still reap a number of the benefits of that system.

We simply must restore the Biblical wisdom concerning education, economy, and government in order that our children and grandchildren may have the opportunity to hear and obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a way of life.  The Bible says of itself,

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“The Story Of The Birthing Of The United States”

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It had been a long struggle. For over twenty years the American Colonies had appealed to their king, asking him to recognize his departure from English law. The Americans, because of their Biblical foundation, understood that government servants (including the king) had to do what they did according to the law of God. King George III showed no respect for what the Bible had to say about government, and thus ignored every request to come back into the order of God.

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Finally on June 7th, 1776, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution on the floor of the Continental Congress stating:

“RESOLVED, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

(The Declaration of Independence, Rod Gragg, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, 2005; p.35)

A committee was appointed, which included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, to write a Declaration of Independence which would, upon the approval of the Congress be sent to the King of England. The Congress then recessed for three weeks to give the committee time to write the Declaration.

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“Picture Reformation”

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I often hear people talking about what we need to do to return our nation to “the way it ought to be”.  But I wonder how many of them have a clear picture of exactly what is, “what it ought to be”.  What would Biblical Reformation in America look like?

Actually, the years just before the American Revolution can give us a good starting point.  The honest student of history finds in those years an evidence of a powerful move of God.  That is what birthed America.  This is all that can change her now.  It is to that way of thinking we must return if America is to restore the liberty to get the Gospel to the next generation.  A study of the man who spearheaded that revival is a good place to start toward reformation.

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His name was George Whitefield.  He was an Englishmen who had grown up with no Christian background.  His parents ran a tavern; and from the shady characters that came there he learned how to think.  He testified that as a boy he was a

“…liar, thief, and a gambler, addicted to filthy talk…and fantasy.  He had a love for novels, [and] plays…”

(Biblical Revival and the Transformation of Nations, S. McDowell (Providence Foundation, 2013), p. 26-27)

His home was very unstable; his parents eventually divorced. But in his later teenage years, he began to be very serious about his relationship to God.  He read a book entitled The Life of God in the Soul of a Man.  It showed him he must be born again or spend eternity in hell.  The common thought of the day was that if you were a member of the church you were okay and would go to heaven when you die.  Much like today, people were greatly deceived as to what a relationship with God really was.  From the conviction which came from reading this book, God would eventually bring him to bow his will and surrender his life to Christ.  He described the joy that came as being,

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