How might you have reacted to this sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" if you had been a Puritan?

"If you
were a Puritan" is a complex idea. Let's unpack it a bit.

To begin with,
"Puritan" is a more complicated label than, say, "Roman Catholic." First, on
the whole it wasn't something people called themselves. The term was originally pejorative, an
insult directed at English Protestants who disagreed with the mainstream Church of England
(Anglicanism in England; Episcopalianism in the United States and elsewhere). They fell within
the broader category of "Dissenter," which was the general term for English
Protestants opposed to the Church of England, ancestors of modern Congregationalists, Methodists
and many other denominations now considered part of mainstream Protestantism. Both
"Puritan" and "Dissenter" were labels imposed from outside, generally by
people who disagreed with the people they were describing.

Second, it's old,
arguably out of date when we're talking about. The term "Puritan" is dated to the
1560s (see reference). It was most current in the 1600s,...

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