Hi Phil,
Hellywood is right!
I'm with you on this one.  Deliverance like that is kind of like spiritual
plumming.  It will work when it is needed, but it certainly is very messy.
People always want the sensational.  How about instead, let's show someone
coming to Christ, and the story of how
The Lord can change a life to one that is possessed by Jesus Himself.
Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: Televised Exorcism


> Vinny,
>
> This was a prime time news program so it wasn't a hollywood, or like the
old
> preacher once called it, hellywood, production.  It is unfortunate,
however,
> that something like this, by a Baptist preacher, would have made it on to
> the television screen.  The young man who was demonized was the one who
> claimed he was possessed.  The preacher didn't diagnose it, apparently,
but
> the young man did it himself.  I've had calls from people who told me they
> had to be demon possessed due to the symptoms and wanting me to cast them
> out.  This is one reason why I have placed a statement on the first page
of
> my website that I am not involved in a deliverance ministry.  It is
> interesting to me that the King James word for "possessed" is translated
to
> mean, demonized, as in opressed, and not a literal possession.   It would
> appear to me that the only example of possession we may have in the Bible
> was Judas where it says that Satan interred into him.  I was sort of
> disappointed that such a thing was video taped, edited, and then put on a
> news broadcast.  Plus, the preacher, unfortunately, spent most of the time
> talking to the demon, or demons, supposedly possessing this young man.
Who
> wants to sit around and converse with demons all day any how?  Not me.
>
> Phil.
>