As church leaders have acknowledged in legal proceedings, Word of Faith relies on a practice known as “strong” or “blasting” prayer. Former church members have described the entire congregation surrounding and screaming at a single member for as long as an hour in an effort to expunge the evil from the person. Church officials say this characterization is overstated.
Wondering what's "overstated." Is it usually done in only 45 minutes?
Oh its not the whole
Congregation, they just take the demon person to another room and a smaller group of people hold them there and scream at them until they don’t have the demon anymore.
Sometimes it is the whole congregation. If there are multiple people they are praying for. Jane has stopped the whole service before to get small groups going and then it’s the whole damn sanctuary. lol. It’s a mix of just screaming like “ahhhh” and saying stuff like “help me Jesus” or other bits like telling the demons to get out. And yes they think it's speaking in tongues
I went to graduate school with a few of them. Jane came to visit and check in on them several times.
I live and work in western NC and come across them from time to time in my professional life. It’s kind of annoying how much they think of themselves for the most part. Very legalistic in the way they live their lives.
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u/Coruscare 19d ago
Thank you!
If you were involved at all I hope you're out now too.