What were the goals of the leaders of the First Great Awakening?

The leaders of the First Great Awakening, which took place in the American colonies and England starting in the 1730s, hoped to bring back the belief in predestination, among other goals. This was the idea that some people, called the elect, were chosen to be saved before birth, and there was nothing people could do to alter their fates.
In addition, the leaders of the movement, who were called "New Lights," hoped to turn back the tides of the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on reason over faith. Through ecstatic preaching, often carried out in the outdoors, leaders such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield preached sermons that spoke of people's direct connection to God and their need for an awareness of their own salvation. As a result of the movement, new religions such as Methodism spread throughout the colonies.