Counseling: Deliverance Debate
Unconventional 'Theophostic' counseling cites results in rebutting its critics.
Kevin Bidwell | posted 2/05/2001 12:00AM
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"Somehow we have to blend our understanding of physical and psychosomatic illness with an understanding of demonic activity," Erickson counters. "I see Satan's influence [as] much more diffused. The demonization model is direct. The reality may be more indirect."
Lesley Westberry, a 17-year veteran therapist in Lexington, Kentucky, has been using Theophostic for about two years. "Theophostic ministry has been the high point of my Christian walk. I bring clients to Jesus—like the friends who lowered the paralytic—and I have witnessed miraculous emotional healings."
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Related Elsewhere
The homepage for theophostic counseling offers information on theophostic training materials and a short biography of its developer, Ed Smith.
The Apologetics Index lists several articles for and against theophostic counseling.
More information is available about Inner Healing prayer counseling at the Elijah House site. You can also read about Elijah House founders John and Paula Stanford here.
Neil Anderson, one of the leading proponents of Freedom in Christ ministries, talks about theophostic counseling in his book Christ-Centered Therapy.
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