the mentally ill from Demons that is.
Nancy Alcorn in her recent blog post
…I just got off a flight this morning to go into three full days of Dr. Neil Anderson being here to speak in person. We have used his books “Victory Over the Darkness,” “Bondage Breaker,” and “Freedom in Christ” for years. Dr. Anderson is here to personally take the girls through the steps to freedom in Christ as he leads two morning sessions and two afternoon sessions today through Friday. Please be praying for our girls as they go through this awesome time of personal ministry. We thank God for the wonderful men and women of God that He sends to us.
Who is Dr Neil Anderson?
A proponent of Clinical deliverance or rather wrapping up your age old expelling of demons in pseudo-scientific terminology in order to legitimize deliverance or exorcism.
From Biblical Discernment Ministries:
Dr. Neil T. Anderson, a former aerospace engineer with Apollo, is an associate professor of practical theology at Talbot School of Theology (and chairman of his department), and president of Freedom In Christ Ministries.
His three most popular books are Victory Over the Darkness (Regal Books, 1990, 245 pages), The Bondage Breaker (Harvest House, 1990/1993, 247 pages), and Released from Bondage (Here’s Life, 1991, 263 pages). He also conducts seminars on Spiritual Conflicts and Counseling, which are designed to free Christians from bondage — the bondage of Satan and demons! His method is to show believers that they are in Christ, so that they can then take their “authority” and get free.
Here is what an Christian reviewer and sufferer of mental illness had to say of Bondage Breaker:
I have been through a year and a half of pastoral counseling for a mental disorder as well as secular psychotherapy. I thought buying this book would give me a spiritual perspective on how to deal with my mental disorder but instead it scared me. Anderson talks about people with mental disorders as possessed by demons. … I am a very spiritual person and get my strength from God, but not in this way. I do not believe that I am possessed by demons or under the influence of demons and I certainly do not want to think of my mental disorder as being that way. This is a book I would never want to read again, and wished I had never purchased.
Even among other evangelicals he is criticised for his approach:
A friend once told me that “80% of snake venom is protein.” Even though we all need a daily source of protein in our diet, it does not follow that snake venom is a good source for protein. The 20% will still be fatal! I have long believed that those who teach a high percentage of the truth, yet mix in a percentage of falsehood, do more damage within the evangelical community than those who are more blatantly in error. I am sorry to have to conclude that many of Dr. Neil T. Anderson’s views on spiritual warfare and deliverance approaches fit into the category of subtle falsehoods. His whole approach is built upon a faulty foundation.
So Nancy may have dropped the Restoring the Foundation Manual as its guidebook for treatment and replaced it with an innocuous Choices that Bring Change but she still adheres to and promotes dangerous treatment methodology and deliverance ministry.
It’s okay they are just crazy Americans?
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Thanks, Sean, for posting this. Yea, Neil Anderson is one crazy dude.
And thanks for the original pick up as well
This exorcism stuff is just batshit. And these people expect to be taken seriously and respected?
Unfortunately they are. One of the attendees at the Atheist conference next year was a senator who tried to have them investigated, but they were protected under the banner of Christendom me thinks
Have we gone back to the medieval era? Truly frightening to know this is allowed to go on in a so-called secular society.
Anything to do with Jesus seems to get a free pass. I can almost guarantee if the Muslims were to be found doing this in a treatment facility there would be an outcry. But the counselling sector is largely unregulated, when last I looked you didn't need to have any qualifications to call yourself a counselor, though you did need to if you wanted to be part of an association.
Frightening stuff o know its allowed.
Its allowed mate because they assume that Christian means the same thing to everyone. This service is definitely one that is Jesus/ Church focused before client.
As somebody who has had an exorcism at Mercy Ministries I feel sick that they are still doing this. Why are they lying on their website and saying they don't do exorcisms when they did, and it sounds like they stilll are?
Why do they call themselves Christians when they're behaving in a way the Bible teaches against?