10 Things to Know About America’s Founding |
As we approach the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, I want to make sure that we don’t forget the God factor – which is vital in telling the true story of America.
Here are 10 things I think we should all know about America’s founding:
1. God is found in our nation’s early charters and original documents. My good friend Bill Federer even wrote a whole book on this, "The Original 13." Here is one example of those original charters, Virginia: “every plantation which our heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out” (1606, a year before they sailed).
2. “The Biblical concept of covenant gave rise to the American idea of constitution,” noted Dr. Os Guinness. The Pilgrims started the process when they wrote up the Mayflower Compact, an agreement under God to create “a civil body politic.” They said they came “for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith.”
3. The first great leader of the Puritans, who led hundreds of Bible-based settlers, was John Winthrop. They founded Boston in 1630, and he famously declared, “For we must consider that we should be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people shall be upon us.”
4. The first fully developed constitution on American soil was produced by the founders of Connecticut in 1639, based on a sermon by Rev.........