Is the Deliverance Ministry Scriptural?boat, so to speak, that they are in now, and that's how
I've learned some of the things I know.
My Early 'Deliverance Meetings'
I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1937. I
began pastoring a little Full Gospel church in 1938
where I met my lovely wife, Oretha.
After we were married, we accepted the pastorate of
a larger Full Gospel church in a little country town.
More than half of my congregation were farmers in the
backlands of Texas. Cotton was "king" in those days.
I'd been pastoring that church about two and a half
years, and as a Baptist boy preacher, I'd learned a lot
from the Pentecostals. They had every kind of service
you'd want to mention. They had deliverance meetings,
loosening services, getting-free services, double-
anointing services, and anything else you could think of.
So I began to announce in my services that we
would start having deliverance meetings every
Saturday night. Well, the meetings started off fine. We
laid hands on people, and they supposedly got delivered.
We had every kind of manifestation and physical
demonstration you've ever seen, and some you wished
you hadn't seen! You may think these physical
manifestations and demonstrations that are going on
today in deliverance are new, but they're not. We had
similar occurrences and demonstrations back then too.
We had a high-heel time in the Lord in these
deliverance services. But after about ninety days of
Saturday night deliverance meetings, the novelty began
to wane. So I announced that the next Saturday we
were going to start having "loosening" services.
Everyone who got delivered in the deliverance services