Confessing Our Sin

Many years ago Audrey and I were attending church in a tent in San Diego. J. O. Dowell was the pastor.
A revival was taking place at this time. The location was at a church named The Armory, to the best of my recollection. The pastor was a lady referred to as Sister Beall. I do not know her first name. This was occurring in Detroit, Michigan, I believe.
The revival was somewhat different from a typical revival. People were confessing their sins one to another.
An evangelist was present at this meeting with her husband: Thelma Dotta Chambers and her husband, Magness Chambers.
Pastor Dowell heard about the revival and invited Thelma Chambers and her husband to San Diego to tell us about this unusual awakening.
Audrey, my wife, and I had attended the Berean Bible School, an Assembly of God institution, of which Pastor Dowell was president. After graduating we remained with him and taught in his school, San Diego Christian Schools.
I did quite a lot of teaching for Pastor Dowell. One of my main subjects was taken from the Book of Romans, the sixth chapter: "Reckon yourself dead to sin." I was quite enthusiastic about this topic. The idea was that a person obtained sanctification, victory over sin, by counting himself or herself dead—crucified with Christ.
Later I understood that the Apostle Paul was not presenting reckon yourself dead to sin as a means of deliverance from sin but as the way a Christian should regard his position concerning sinful behavior and righteous behavior. In other words, we should not yield to sin, because we have died with Christ on the cross.