Essay: Generational Curses

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Pentecostalism, Healing and Deliverance

‘Pentecostalism’, as used in this paper, refers to forms of Christian religious expression that affirm belief in, encourage, and actively promote the experience of the Holy Spirit as normative for Christian life and worship today. The primary sources of appeal for Pentecostal movements are the events of the biblical Pentecost as recounted in the Acts of the Apostles (chapters 1 and 2). The coterminous expression

‘Charismatic’ is used to refer to Pentecostal movements that operate outside major Pentecostal denominations either as renewal movements within historic mission churches, or as para-church trans-denominational fellowships or independent churches and ministries. Charismatic Christianity is very lay-oriented, and in its ecclesiology, the gifts of the Spirit tend to be more liberalized or democratized than in classical Pentecostal denominations. The main theological emphasis of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements includes speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, miracles, generational curses, signs and wonders in general. In dealing with the streams of pneumatic Christianity under discussion, I simply refer to them collectively as ‘Pentecostal/Charismatic movements’. By virtue of its emphasis on the immediacy of God’s presence, Pentecostal/ Charismatic Christianity possesses a very strong interventionist theology that is seen especially in its attention to healing for the cursed and deliverance for the demonically possessed or oppressed by the generational curse. (Robertson, p. 21)

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