Posted on 05/31/2019 8:32:38 AM PDT by fwdude
This isn’t satire, but it sounds like it. The Vision Church in Atlanta, Georgia, has added a psychic medium to their church staff. The medium, Lakara Foster, claims to be able to communicate with the dead. The church licensed her to Gospel ministry and hired her as staff so that she can help parishioners communicate with their deceased relatives.
File this under, “I kid you not.”
Rolling Out first covered the story in a post entitled, Black Girl Medium, At a Church Near You. The church says that her ability to communicate with the dead is one of her “spiritual gifts.” Her doctoral dissertation title was, ” Every Good and Perfect Gift Is From Above (James 1:17): Making The Case for the inclusion of Psychic Mediumship among the Spiritual Gifts of the Modern Church.”
Apparently, Vision Church thought highly of her dissertation and agreed that necromancy was a New Testament spiritual gift.
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That’s the best explanation for summoning Samuel by Saul and the ghost condemning it.
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