As I write this, I am puzzled by a news report I just saw on a local Dallas station. A preacher named Bob Larsen is traveling around the country and casting out demons at special seminars he schedules. He carries a silver cross in one hand and rants and raves, hoots and hollers, and deals "firmly" with "demons" in people. Oh, and they give him lots of money at each venue (his ministry made 1.1 million dollars last year). What makes Larsen's ministry so puzzling is his theology and execution of his theology. He preaches fear. He preaches an "us verses them" theology of divine warfare, attributing illnesses, addictions and other human ailments to demon possession. If you are suffering, the answer is a demon. Sometimes he has to cast a demon out of a person twice.
Good Bible scholars know that Larsen's theology is unbiblical. The main enemy of mankind is not demonic. It is internal. It is sin. Are we tempted by Satan and his demons? You bet. But are they responsible for our missteps and failures? Nope. We are. We bear the responsiblity for our actions and when we fail it is not because a demon caused us to fail, it is because we took our eyes off of Jesus and gave into our own sin natures.
The problem is sin far more than it is demons. Bob Larsen needs to understand this and start preaching Christ and making Him known.
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