Is it okay for Christians to be involved with hypnosis?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, it's Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we

answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian

life every day. We'd love to hear from you and our phone lines are open right now. You can call us

with your question for the next 25 minutes or so. Here's the number. It's 833 The Core. That's

1833-843-243-2673. You can also post your question on one of our social media sites, and of course, you can always email us your question at questions at core Christianity.com. First up today, Adriel, here's a question from one of our listeners about anointing oil. She says, can you tell me if any Christian in the body of Christ is able

to anoint a sick Christian with oil?

And if so, does the oil have to be a special oil?

Does it have to be prayed over by a pastor?

I have a sick relative in the hospital, and I wanted to anoint him with oil and pray over

him.

So I just want to know if the pastor has to pray over that oil first,

and if not, does it have to be a special oil?

Hey, I mean, yeah, are we using vegetable oil here, olive oil? Great question. And I know

different Christian traditions, you know, there's some, when I first became a believer,

started walking with the Lord going to church, the church that I was a part of, this was just a thing. I don't know if churches you've been a part of where, you know, they, you know, have oil and, you know, if somebody wants prayer, they'll anoint them with oil. But that was certainly something that I experienced as a newer Christian. The first thing I want to say is you do see this in the New Testament.

So, for example, in the Gospels, in Mark chapter 6, Jesus is healing ministry, setting out the

apostles.

And it says in Mark chapter 6, verse 12, so they went out and proclaimed that people should repent,

and they cast out many demons and anointed with oil, many who were sick and

healed them. Now, right there, it seems like this is something that the apostles are doing,

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