Even when Christians know in their heads that God accepts them by faith through the grace of Christ’s atoning sacrifice, they don’t always live that way. Day to day, they believe that God loves them because they obey his law. They draw “their assurance of acceptance with God from their sincerity, their past experience of conversion, their recent religious performance or the relative infrequency of their conscious, willful disobedience.”6 That’s why we need revivals, so that we can be weaned off our natural-born
