#289 Should Christians Practice Deliverance Ministry? Pt. 1, with Doug Geivett and Richard Howe
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Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Many churches today practice deliverance ministry, which seeks to free people from the oppression and possession of demonic spirits and influence. Deliverance can involve practices like prayer, naming and binding demons, breaking generational curses, taking authority over spirits, and identifying sin patterns that (according to deliverance ministers) give demons "legal rights" to oppress or demonize believers. In this new multi-part series, I'm joined by Doug Geivett and Richard Howe to pose some questions about the general category of "deliverance ministry" and pose some concerns about the lack of biblical basis for these practices. In part 1 of the series, we cover the heart behind this series, and cover the topics of oppression vs. demonization vs. possession, and the concept of the authority of the believer.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, we're dealing with creatures that we're told in scripture are liars and deceivers. |
| 0:07.2 | That's their stock and trade. |
| 0:08.7 | It's what they specialize in. |
| 0:10.6 | And they've been doing it a lot longer than I've been doing anything else in my life. |
| 0:14.8 | They have a lot of experience with this. |
| 0:17.9 | And they're very canny and very clever and very manipulative when it comes to this sort of thing. |
| 0:24.9 | And so for us to depend for knowledge about these things on any reports or behavior we witness from them is going to be a little bit dicey, isn't it? |
| 0:47.1 | Well, hey, everyone. |
| 0:48.1 | Welcome to the show. I'm Elisa Childers, and this is the Elisa Chilters podcast. |
| 0:52.1 | Our goal here is to equip Christians to identify the core |
| 0:56.0 | beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, |
| 1:00.5 | kindness, and truth. And sometimes in doing that, we have to address topics that might be raising |
| 1:05.5 | some concerns that are what we might call in-house debates. These are debates that faithful Christians might have |
| 1:11.4 | with one another, people who love the Lord, who believe the Bible is God's word, but the concerns |
| 1:15.8 | are being raised because the practical outflow of the practices that are being taught might lead |
| 1:21.0 | people into error, might lead them away from scripture. And so I have concerns about a topic |
| 1:27.3 | that I will broadly call deliverance ministry. Now, I have concerns about a topic that I will broadly call deliverance |
| 1:29.4 | ministry. Now, I realize this is a divisive topic. I realize it's a sensitive topic because |
| 1:34.3 | people are very passionate with their views on this topic. You have people who are passionately |
| 1:39.3 | against deliverance ministry and people who are passionately for it. And it can be something |
| 1:43.7 | that people are very |
| 1:44.6 | emotionally connected to because of experiences that they've had or encounters with the demonic |
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