"One of our most effective church planting missionaries had become so involved with delivering Christians from demons. ...She claimed that thousands of demons had to be cast out of pastors in her many months of ministry around the country. This ministry was causing dismay to many, and appeared to be even possibly a sidetracking of the enemy into endless conversations with demons and time-consuming deliverances. She was even cross-examining lesser demons to find out more concerning the upper echelons of the demonic hierarchy. We sought to warn her of the real dangers associated with the latter and the need for a rounded balance in ministry in the former. I cannot help but feel that she was laying herself open to believing the lies and distortions of the enemy and having all her energies consumed in this deliverance ministry. She took some of our advice and moderated some of the excesses in her ministry."
(Patrick Johnstone, "Biblical intercession: spiritual power to change our world," Spiritual Power and Missions: Raising the Issues (
C. S. Lewis penned this famous dictum:
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. "
(C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (
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