Deliverance

We may criticize the victims, blame their lack of faith, their lack of yieldedness, or their insincerity or weakness. But we must also admit a sense of the church's powerlessness in delivering many men and women from these besetting sins, and a sense both of delight and of bewilderment on learning of deliverances like Conrad's. We are delighted to know that God still does things like this but bewildered that he does not always do it. We cannot understand why so much of our teaching and so many of our prayers do not produce the same dramatic results.

John White, When The Spirit Comes With Power, p. 207