So, if your church supported a missionary that minsiitered somewhere remote and they begin reporting strange things what would be your first reaction?

To disbelieve him or believe him? What if he experienced some strange things; how realible is that experience?

These strange things include:

-premonitory dreams,
-Sudden fits of crying done by locals when in the presence of evangelists,
-reports of locals being demon possessed,
-reports of locals (several at once) claiming to see spirits.
-largr groups of people asking for help from evil spirits,
-refusal to plant or build houses on certain places of land,
-relocating whole villages to escape the local spirits,
-refusing to drink out of a clean water stream and drinking instead out of dirty swamp due to the stream being a sacred place.
-curses that seem to lead to people dying. One evangelist claims that he lost his sight temporarily and another one had his leg swell up after being cursed.



The existence of these things rests largely on experience, a very faulty piece of equipment.

Can places be inhabited by spirits (a person is spacially located and can be inhabited it seems, why not a house, or stretch of jungle, etc).


And if these dramatic things are indeed true then why do they not seem to happen in the West?

And do I really need to "claim" anything in the name of Christ if I am already His.

Do I even need any extra or special prayers besides the normal means of grace. What is one to do in such cases that extend beyond one's normal spiritual exercises of prayer and bible reading?

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