and churches. “Believers break through complex, abstract, obscure theology and get to the basic practical truth of the Scriptures,” observes Lewis Drummond, noting that this does not mean that renewal creates an anti-intellectual climate but instead “an empirical, purely rationalistic theology that downgrades the transcendental elements of Christianity are laid to rest in awakenings. People become vividly alive to the fact that the sovereign miracle-working God is among them.”10 This may happen on