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Generational Curses: Response to Corey Minor • What is Discernment of Spirits? • EXTRA: RR on Theocast • PRESALE DEADLINE: Intro to Deliverance Ministry • And More!
Joshua Lewis
April 26, 2026
Corey Minor of the Smart Christians Channel recently posted a detailed response to Michael Miller's appearance on Deep End with Lecrae, challenging the biblical basis for generational curses and deliverance ministry. In this episode, the Remnant Radio team engages that critique directly with respect for Corey as a Christian brother and honest disagreement with his conclusions.
We walk through the key claims: that curses aren't a real category for New Testament believers, that salvation provides categorical immunity from demonic influence, and that the physical and emotional responses seen in deliverance sessions are explained entirely by suggestion and confirmation bias. We'll show why we think those conclusions, while motivated by honest concern, go further than Scripture or Church history allows.
LIVE: Mon, April 27, 4:00 p.m. CDT / UTC-5
Most teaching on the discernment of spirits goes one direction: detect the demon, cast it out, move on. But what if that's only a fraction of what Paul actually meant?
Michael Rowntree walks through the three most serious scholarly positions and tells you where he lands. But stay for the story at the end. It happened at a Remnant Conference. In a quiet prayer room, three words showed up and shouldn't have made sense until they made all the sense in the world. That story is why this gift matters.
LIVE CHAT: Wed, April 27 at 4:00 p.m. CDT / UTC-5
EXTRA
Josh, Michael and Michael joined Jon Moffitt at Theocast to discuss spiritual gifts and how believers can sharpen each other even through disagreement.
PRESALE: 1 WEEK LEFT!
Deliverance in the early Church was not treated as rare, but as part of ordinary pastoral care. Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Origen, Cyprian, Augustine, Chrysostom, Ambrose, Basil — across centuries the voice of the early church on this question is near unanimous.
Tertullian recorded the account of a Christian woman who went to the theatre and came home demonized. When the demon was confronted during exorcism, it defended its presence, claiming it had found her in its own domain. (De Spectaculis, Chapter 26) Tertullian didn't dispute her Christian identity. His point was that holiness matters and that compromise opens doors.
Cyprian went further: "Some of those who are baptized in health, if subsequently they begin to sin, are shaken by the return of the unclean spirit, so that it is manifest that the devil is driven out in baptism by the faith of the believer, and returns if the faith afterwards shall fail." (Epistle 75)
And even Augustine wrote plainly about those within the church who live sinfully, describing them as having given place in their heart to the devil and his angels. (Expositions on the Psalms, Psalm 101)
What emerges from the historical record is not a sensational picture of spiritual warfare, but a sober and confident one. Their emphasis was always on Christ's finished victory, not on the power of demons.
The church did not fear the demonic. The demonic feared the church, because the church belonged to Christ.
This is the tradition our Introduction to Deliverance Ministry e-course is rooted in. Not a hyper-charismatic trend with drama and hysterics, but the sober, Christ-centered, Scripture-governed practice that Jesus modeled and was implemented by the church fathers. This teaching course is for the believer who wants to learn how to practice deliverance ministry, biblically and pastorally.
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