Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 08120. Few questions in pastoral ministry generate as much fear and confusion as whether demon possession is possible for a believer, and few have been answered so badly by so many well-meaning people. My answer is no, and I hold it firmly. But the question deserves more than a flat denial, because the people…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08105. When deliverance ministry does not seem to work, the person left standing there afterwards carries a weight that is hard to describe. They came forward believing, they were prayed over at length, they were told something had left, and within a fortnight the same anger or the same craving or the same darkness…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08104. Whether one believer should try to cast out demons from another believer is a question I have been asked in tears more than once, usually by a Christian who has been told that their depression, their temper or their besetting sin has a name and needs expelling. The pastoral damage done by that…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08070 Deliverance ministry covers a wide range of practice, from careful pastoral work with genuinely troubled people to something closer to a stage act. Because the label is so elastic, I want to describe what it usually involves before saying what I think of it. I write as someone who believes demonic activity is…