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GOAL OF DISCUSSION:

• DISCUSS ALL THE BOOKS
• BARELY SCRATCH SURFACE
• I WILL READ STATEMENTS, QUOTES, FACTS, MYTHS AND ASK TO UNPACK OR EXPOUND

BACKGROUND

• FAITH JOURNEY
• VOCATIONAL EXPERIENCE 
• WHY THE NICHE OF DEEPLY RESEARCHING DEMONIC ACTIVITY ?
• MINISTRY OF DELIVERANCE 

*** WAS YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH WARFARE HEIGHTENED WHEN WRITING THESE BOOKS ****

SKEPTICS OF SUPERNATURAL 

• TYPES OF SKEPTICS
• WHY SKEPTICAL
• HOW TO ADDRESS SKEPTICS?
• ART OVER SCIENCE
• ISSUES WITH TERMINOLOGY? ‘EXORCISM’ ‘EXORCIST’

HISTORY OF DEMONIC INFLUENCE

WORLDWIDE IMPACT

• HATIANS & VOODOO
• AFRICANS & WITCHCRAFT 
• WHY OTHER CULTURES MORE RECEPTIVE TO DEMONIC INFLUENCES?
• BARRIER TO AMERICAN CHRISTIANS ACCEPTING THE REALITY OF A SPIRITUAL REALM AND WARFARE?

DEMONIC MODALITIES 

BREAK DOWN EACH

• OUIJA BOARDS
• MEDIUMS
• OCCULTS
• CINEMA
• VIDEO GAMES
• PEOPLE

FACTS & MYTHS ABOUT DEMONS AND DEMONIC INFLUENCES 

• THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS ARE REAL
• THE GOAL IS TO KILL, STEAL, & DESTROY CHRISTIANS AND THEIR FAITH IN GOD
• DEMONS HAVE NO AUTHORITY OR CONTROL
• THE DEVIL CAN READ YOUR MIND
• DEMONIC ACTIVITY CAN CONTROL BEHAVIOR
• SATAN CAN MAKE YOU DO IT
• ANY OTHER MYTHS OR MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE DEVIL?

DO WE FALSELY ATTRIBUTE TRAGEDY OR HARDSHIP ON DEMONIC ACTIVITY?

IS IT A WAY FOR US IN THE WEST TO EXPLAIN AWAY OUR POOR DECISION-MAKING?

FREE OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND AGENCY?

DO WE MAKE THE DEVIL OUR SCAPEGOAT AND GIVE HIM TOO MUCH CREDIT?

MESSAGE TO NEW CHRISTIANS ABOUT DEMONIC INFLUENCES ? HOW CAN WE TEACH REALISM WITHOUT EXTREMISM?

SCREW-TAPE LETTERS

• DEVIL LIKES TO KEEP US:
• DISTRACTED, BUSY, COMFORTABLE & APATHETIC 
• THOUGHTS WHEN YOU FIRST READ IT COMPARED TO NOW AND ALL YOU’VE EXPERIENCED

BOOK 

SPIRITUAL WARFARE & DELIVERANCE

• HOW TO MINISTER TO THE DEMONICALLY OPPRESSED & POSSESSED

CHURCH INFLUENCE

QUOTE:

“With the demise of the Church as a governing influence in our world and the decline of devoted Christians as spiritual warriors comes a stronger dose of demonic attack around the globe.”

• CAUSE OF CHURCH DEMISE?
• WHY DECLINE OF CHRISTIANS AS WARRIORS?
• EXAMPLES OF STRONGER DOSES OF DEMONIC ATTACK?

• WORLD CONFLICT
• DOMESTIC TERRORISM : ACTS OF VIOLENCE 
• POLITICAL PARTIES REPRESENTING MORAL DECAY AND DEMONIC IDEOLOGIES 

DATA:  RISE IN PREVALENCE & POPULARITY 

• SEEMINGLY MORE PREVALENT 
• TECHNOLOGY 

• QUOTE:  “With faster and easier ways of accessing information at our fingertips, we are more informed and exposed to cases of demonic manifestation.”

• INCREASED CHURCH DOCTRINAL COMPROMISE 

• EXAMPLES OF EVIDENCE?

• DATA?
• Higher than reported and documented 
• DENOMINATIONS MOST RECEPTIVE OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE?
• WHY?

THING WE SAY:

MODERN DAY- WESTERN CULTURE CHRISTIAN REACTION TO DEMONIC ACTIVITY 

• “ITS AN ANCIENT CONCEPT”
• “IT’S LEGIT BUT ONLY IN 3rd WORLD POPULATIONS WHERE GOSPEL HASNT BEEN SHARED”
• “IT IS REDUCED DOWN TO PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS WITH SECULAR EXPLANATIONS” 

QUOTES

Although all of us struggle with demonic temptation and spiritual onslaughts, we don’t all suffer from devilish attacks manifested in physical symptoms. 

Before conversion, all people remain spiritually possessed by the devil. The devil has taken their souls captive. If they die in a state of unbelief, they’ll be taken by the devil to hell.  But the devil doesn’t usually control their bodies. They aren’t

puppets. People make rational decisions about how to live,

what to eat, where to work, who to see. They are possessed spiritually but still free in many regards. They are not physically possessed.

DEMON OPPRESSION AND POSSESSION

LIES FROM ENEMY OR ATTACKS OF ENEMY CONSIDERED DEMON OPPRESSION ?

• DIFFERENTIATE 
• HOW? 
• IF WE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S PEOPLE CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE?
• WHEN WAS THE FIRST ACCOUNT IN BIBLE OF DEMONIC POSSESSION?
• WHAT ENABLES HUMANS TO HOST A DEMON?
• FIRST DEMONIC OR SPIRITUALLY OPPRESSIVE ENCOUNTER?