DELIVERANCE
When I was a new Christian, we sometimes did things I wouldn’t recommend today. For example, I was attending a youth group meeting in a country United Methodist church which was experiencing a revival during a move of the Holy Spirit in 1972. I was past my teen years but the pastor asked me to help with the youth.
At one youth prayer meeting in which I was absent, one young teen gal became very belligerent. The others, sensing a demonic manifestation, attempted to cast the spirit out of her. She went ballistic and ran out of the church and into the cornfield. An hour later she returned. Five or six guys grabbed her and carried her to a classroom where they forcibly held her down and prayed for her deliverance.
After some time she calmed down and was obviously changed. She was an active part of the youth group after that. I think its obvious that she was delivered from a demonic influence that night, although I would never recommend forcing the victim to submit. That was not scriptural and may have opened the church to a lawsuit. But the method did work!
How would you have handled that differently?
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