who argue for casting out demons as a way of overcoming sin. If those who disagree with those theories and methods never tell stories, the conversation can sound like bookish theory arguing with nitty-gritty, eyewitness testimony. In addition to the consistency and clarity of biblical witness, telling a couple of stories is worthwhile. My first example concerns a European friend of mine who went to rural West Africa in the 1980s as a long-term missionary. He taught in a theological college and did