Bob Larson Ministries
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To many, he is the Bad Boy of Christian broadcasting - a cynical con artist exploiting gullible Christians.

To many others, he is a courageous man of God, fearlessly waging his own unique brand of spiritual warfare.

Bob Larson is best known for his radio broadcast, Talk- Back, and books like Dead Air and In the Name of Satan. His abrasive, sometimes belligerent style, ultra-conservative politics, and aggressive fund-raising tactics have drawn both vociferous support and condemnation. Bob Larson Ministries (BLM) has branched out into television, and Larson is now giving workshops, with ads promoting him as "the world's foremost authority on the supernatural."

As his profile has increased, so have his critics; they have made a variety of damaging allegations, involving financial fraud and adultery. Larson soldiers on, supported by a loyal following.

Theological concerns, questionable financial practices and allegations of adultery were covered in last month's BCCN feature on Bob Larson, but a number of issues were omitted, due to space restrictions, time constraints (deadline), and a perhaps ill-advised tendency to follow the paper's mandate to foster unity among Christians rather than critique errant teachers. Moreover, several of Larson's responses to our questions went unchallenged, raising the misleading impression that the charges against him are as he claimed: lies, half-truths, and exaggerations. This update hopes to rectify any confusion.

Some of Larson's claims are so fantastic as to sound fictitious, including statements blaming the Columbine massacre on all those who have opposed him, that satanists are more to be trusted than Christians in the media, that he's been impersonated by demons on several occasions and that the Larson expose is part of a satanic plot that has already brought down Jim Bakker, Mike Warnke and Jimmy Swaggart. All these claims are verified through audio tapes.

Currently included on his rally schedule internet page is this statement: "For example, demons which manifested at recent rallies and workshops set off fire alarms and generated earthquakes."

Exorcisms?
Larson critics have long questioned whether the 'exorcisms' he performs are real, and suspected that 'marks'--persons set up to fake the whole thing -- were employed.

In late May, KCBD-TV, the NBC affiliate in Lubbock, Texas ran a report on Larson, which included interviews with a number of audience members who admitted to having been exorcised more than once by Larson, at different cities.

Locally, Burnaby resident Ken Hamer was able to correctly predict where the first 'demons' would manifest during the March rally. At Larson's workshop here in June, the same individual was the final exorcism of the day.

While these episodes do not prove a set-up, they suggest only two possibilities: either they were orchestrated by Larson, or they were not bona fide exorcisms, in which case Larson should have known he was being set up.

"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

In 1999, God laid it upon Bob Larson's heart to establish DWJD teams to carry on the work of healing and deliverance that grew out of the Spiritual Freedom Conference. Since that time teams have been raised up in more than 40 cities around the world. This movement is rapidly changing the face of Christianity and mainstreaming the ministry of inner healing and exorcism.

Bob's vision is to have a DWJD team actively ministering deliverance in every major city in the world, so that everyone is no more than one day's drive or one short flight from a DWJD team.