How close should a pastor get to the members?

[Maple Leaf]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

Absolutely - especially Borderlines.

I once had the happy privilege of encountering a classic borderline who also had a lying spirit. The lying spirit was easy to deal with through intense prayer and the exercise of spiritual authority, but the rest of the mess is almost beyond God because of the inherent blindness to the problem. How does even God help a person who can’t, or won’t, see that they, and not the rest of the world, have a problem? We have authority over spirits, but unrestrained flesh is a headache that won’t respond to aspirin.