昨天，我们提到教会迫切需要复兴，是因为它看重活动过于祷告，而今天我们会思考另一个问题，就是不自觉的专靠自己。我说「不自觉」是因为大部分基督徒都不知道自己有这种态度──可是他们确实是如此。

这种态度是来自，我们发现了为神工作能够令自己感觉良好。刚开始的时候，我们看重的不是自己的感觉，而是所参与的事工的意义。然而逐渐的，我们就变得更专注于行动所带来的良好感觉，事情的意义反而成为次要。你看到吗，这就已经是本末倒置了；我们由倚靠神找到自己的意义，转而倚靠自己、从所做的事情中来取得良好的感觉。你看到这当中的危险吗？我们倚靠的东西与我们的生命连结起来，使它们发挥功用──那就成为我们的神。所以当人在专靠自己的时候，自己便成了神。

复兴会改变这一切。在属灵大觉醒的时期，不自觉的动机会被带进意识中，人们会看到自己的本相。骄傲的人变得谦卑，自大的人变得谦逊，靠自己的人变为倚靠神。基督徒辅导员其中一个最艰难的任务，是帮助人们意识到自己是躲藏在「否认」的防卫机制背后，并使他们能够从里面走出来。有时这需要几个月甚至几年的时间，才能够让他们明白其中的道理；但是在复兴的时候，神只需要一出手就能达成这目的。

Another issue in today's Church which makes the need for revival urgent is unconscious self-dependence. I say "unconscious" because most Christians do not know they have this attitude - but they do, nevertheless.

This is how it develops: we learn ways of doing things for God that make us feel good. At first, the more important thing is not the feelings we get but the significance of the task in which we are engaged. Gradually, however, we become preoccupied with the good feelings that our actions give us and the significance of what we are doing takes second place. Subtly the tables have been turned - we have moved from depending on God for our significance to depending on the good feelings we get from what we are doing. Can you see the danger in this? And whatever we depend upon to hold our lives together and make them work - that is our god. So it can be said that when self-dependence rules our hearts then we become god.

Revival would change all this. In times of great spiritual awakening unconscious motives are brought into consciousness and men and women see themselves as they really are. The proud become humble, the arrogant become unassuming, and the self-dependent become God-dependent. One of the most difficult tasks of a Christian counsellor is to help people realise how they are hiding behind the defence mechanism of denial and come out from behind it. It sometimes takes months, even years, to get that point across. In revival God does it in one fell swoop.