Daily Devotion

Marie Monsen (1878–1962), a Norwegian Lutheran missionary who arrived in China in 1901 and served there some thirty years, was a catalyst of the Shandong revival of the early 1930s. According to Paul Hattaway, her question "Have you ever really been born again?" burned throughout many parts of China; held up to the searching light of God's Word, many professing Christians realized that Christianity had merely been pasted over their lives as a veneer, and that they had never been thoroughly converted to Christ nor forsaken their sins. A Lutheran missionary recalled that her plan was first to destroy the false security of church members, exposing the "patches" the unsaved hid behind to persuade themselves they were saved, and then to speak of sin, one sin at a time.