In his sermon to the graduates of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Paul Tillich, the theologian, preached on the theme of healing and casting out demons. He told the graduating seminarians that they would experience two difficulties as they went to their new parishes with this message of healing and casting out demons: (1) Many people will say that they do not need to be healed and (2) Many will laugh at the absurdity of casting out demons that rule their lives; they may tell the proclaimer that he or she is possessed by a demon for saying so - just like they did to Jesus. "Therefore," Tillich said, "the first task of the minister is to make people aware of their predicament."2

The predicament of people’s insensitivity to their own needs and the forces of evil is further compl…