According to Finney, excitement is necessary in church to encourage people to fight against sin. He emphasizes the need for excitement to awaken the dormant moral powers and combat moral decline and sin.
Read the following quote from Charles Grandison Finney, then answer the question.
The word dormant means “sleeping.”
The word degradation means “moral decline.”
There must be excitement sufficient to wake up the dormant moral powers, and roll back the tide of degradation and sin.
–Charles Grandison Finney
Lectures on Revivals of Religion
1835
According to Finney, why is excitement necessary in church?
to make sure people don’t fall asleep
to test people’s temptations to be sinful
to encourage people to fight against sin
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