There are many "spiritual warfare" techniques in the church today. In dealing with spirits or past atrocities, "Jericho walks" and "driving stakes" in the ground are ways of marking territory. It is interesting that the North American church is stuck in the rut of "taking territory". I thought that the earth is the Lord's "and the fullness thereof"...
One of the things that some in the church is discovering is that most territories were ALREADY marked and were intended to be under the guardianship of a particular tribe. It does rub some church people the wrong way when I suggest that they contact the tribal elders or their spiritual people, since as church Christians, they are "complete" in Christ and really don't "have to" ask permission from the pagans. In fact many insist that the pagan Indians should be coming to the church as the proper order of things. But most churches fail to realize that after 500+ years, few natives ever ask the church for spiritual advice. When the church is ready to try something different, we are still here...
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