So is it, say, if all prayed for no more earthquakes, and then there was one, it would simply mean that Satan is still winning, so all must pray harder .. is that it?
The worse anything gets, the stronger Satan is becoming, so to counter we must use all the weapons in the cannon of prayer .. main weapons? .. faith and obedience .. It seems whatever happens the 'prayer possessed' proponent believers have it by the balls.
The Danger of Paranoia
One of my great concerns regarding the uncritical acceptance of the Third Wave paradigm by many of our pastors and youth workers is the fundamental unverifiability and total subjectivity inherent in diagnosing whether one is oppressed by a demonic presence or not. According to C. Peter Wagner and other such specialists, there is no way to ever be certain that one is not being attacked, possessed, demonized, or otherwise influenced by evil spirits. In fact, one must live under the assumption that Satan and/or his minions are constantly active in one's life in one fashion or another. I am convinced that such a worldview can lead, in certain cases, to forms of mental illness. Young people who are going through profound physical and psychological changes in their teens can be particularly vulnerable if they are led to adopt the fundamental premises of the spiritual warfare paradigm as held in the Third Wave movement.
Manipulation and Spiritual Abuse
Another concern I have about the Third Wave ideology is related to the critical importance given to leaders who claim to have a special gift of discernment regarding the presence of evil spirits in someone else's life or in some given location. Consciously or unconsciously these leaders put themselves in a position of authority over people who may be at a particularly vulnerable point of their lives. Psychological or spiritual manipulation and abuse is an ever-present danger.
Propensity towards Reductionism
Third Wave theology, like many systems of belief, is profoundly reductionistic. It is reductionistic of Scripture; it is reductionistic of human nature; and it is reductionistic of God.
Demonic Existence and Power
Why do demons seem to have so much power? My suspicion is that the power demons have is the power we attribute to them. In nearly all, if not all, of Jesus' encounters with the demonic, the purpose of the story is to demonstrate the demons' powerlessness. The Gospels dispel the lie communicated by the old pagan religions that human beings live in a universe filled with evil powers that they must exorcize at all costs. In the Gospel of Mark, for example, it is not demons or even Satan that constitute a real to obstacle to Jesus's authority, but human beings.
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