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• He chose to seek a more lasting healing and to preach the
gospels of the kingdom and for people to believe and repent.
So as we see in the Bible, God encourages spiritual healings in its proper
form and not the conventional way.
Although there are a lot of other forms of spiritualism out there,
according to the Bible in [Acts 10:11] God states Jesus was a healer and
the devil was an oppressor, and He considers healings in the right way as
doing good. And we’re not just talking about healings – also resurrections,
bad and good spirits are all part of this research.
Remember, when we talk about spiritualism, we are talking about
people who claim to be talking and/or doing anything with the dead, yet
some of these people are led by bad spiritualists and demons. These bad
spirits can take over and control a person who may be grieving a dead
person, a loved one. This type of healing may be considered harmful and
dangerous, because demons can act as the loved one who passed away
and give a medium false information [Samuel 1 28:2-19].
In Psalms chapter 15 it tells us anyone inquiring of the dead is led
by wicked spirits, and is acting not in the way of God. Demons are called
dark angels, and have the ability to take over a human’s body. But if the
person is a child of God, this can not happen, because the Holy Spirit
resides in the heart of that person [John 4:4]. According to [Thessalonians
23:3] it states the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen and protect you
from evil. And yet people are leaving churches for various reasons, like
hurt and anger, and the question is, “why?”
According to the author of the Book of Revelation, he tells us that a
growing number of people are seeking spiritual growth outside of the
institutional church. But we have to remember that maybe these people
have outgrown their churches. Other books, like the Critical Journey
written by another author, tells us of six distinct stages; four of those are:
1. Recognition of God
2. Life of discipleship
3. Productivity of life
4. Churches don’t specialize in people who have been following Christ for
years
But we are at the stage in our research that you may be wondering how
people who stop going to church relates to all of this. A lot of these people
may not believe in the resurrection and that Christ died. It’s alarming that a
growing number of people in their 30’s think that church is not relevant