Foreword

When the charismatic renewal first began in the late 1950s, many of us liberal, old-line, denominational Christians discovered, to our surprise, that demons are real! That was a shock that upset our paradigm of a nice, safe world. For a while, the sector of the Body of Christ of which I was part characteristically ran right off the deep end. Suddenly demons were lurking behind every bush, and we went home looking over our shoulders, just in case. Vomit buckets appeared in many ministry rooms.

A plethora of books came out, many quite good, such as Don Basham’s Deliver Us from Evil, and some not so good, falling into the Manichaean heresy. More about that in a moment.

o the Manichaean heresy. More about that in a moment.Deliverance and inner healing grew up separately, and often antagonistically. Chosen Books asked my son Mark and me to write a book to reconcile the two fields. We planned a sevenchapter book to accomplish that, trying to teach the Church to do both together, neither without the other. In the writing, our editor, Jane Campbell, asked me to include a chapter on delivering places and objects. That grew into another chapter, one about delivering animals as well—which so exploded us out of our original intention that we ending up writing A Comprehensive Guide to Deliverance and Inner Healing—emphasis on comprehensive.