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

Who were the thinkers behind the American Revolution which would give birth to the greatest Republic the world had ever seen? Actually, men like Washington, Jefferson, or even Samuel Adams, were not the “root” thinkers of that Revolution. You may be surprised, but the truth is: It was the Pastors who inspired the thinking that brought about the American Revolution. They taught it in the churches! The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts stated in 1774:

“…we cannot but acknowledge the goodness of Heaven in constantly supplying us with preachers of the Gospel whose concern has been the temporal and spiritual happiness of this people…and do therefore recommend…that they assist us in avoiding that dreadful slavery with which we are now threatened…”

(Christian History of the American Revolution, V. Hall (F.A.C.E. pub.), p.402)

The inspiration for the Battle of Lexington and Concord, which began the Revolutionary War, was none other than Jonas Clark, Pastor of the Church in Lexington for twenty years before the Revolution. It was he who authored almost every state paper written to record the town’s position on liberty. Without him, there may have been no “shot heard round the world!”

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Recently there’s been a lot of talk about government and the money it takes to operate it.  And all this has produced is just more debt, more tax, and more destruction of our nation—While the government gets larger and larger.  And if we don’t quickly return to the Founding principle of America we will shortly live under a dictator.

Our Founders taught a principle to their children which summed up all the Biblical teaching about government.  It was this:

“The more internal self-government you have, the less external civil government you need.  But the less internal self-government you have, the more external civil government you need.”

America was built on this principle.  The Pilgrims learned to walk in the internal self-government which the Holy Spirit produces when a life is surrendered to Christ.  This started when they received Christ as their Lord and Deliverer and thus, were born again.  But the earliest among them had learned something about this internal self-government that would profoundly affect the birthing and the growth of America.  In the mid-1500s they had gone to Geneva, Switzerland to learn from a scholar by the name of John Calvin.  Calvin taught a simple principle which would change the course of the Western world.  He called it “renovation”.  The word renovation means to make new.  This is what Christ does when He enters a life that has just surrendered to Him as Master.  He changes that life by flowing with His life from that person’s spirit, into his soul, and out through the actions of his body.  That is what the Bible means when it says,