Frank Peretti created a stir with the publication of two books, This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness. He claims that his books are a creative fictional treatment about the spiritual warfare that is going on in the world. He believes that Christian people have the authority to exercise spiritual control over the things and forces which detract from the promise of what the Christian faith can be. In an interview about the nature of his books, he remarked how Christians have lost the ability to think seriously about the problems they face. He was concerned especially about the encroachment of popular culture into the life of the church. He is greatly distressed by the fact that we have raised an entire generation of what he described as “consumatons,” people who have come to the co…