Touch Therapies
A Christian Response

“As a Christian, how do I respond to the dangers associated with touch therapies?” Please consider some of the following options as possible responses.

Nurses, Physicians and Other Professionals

•    Point out to management the medical studies mentioned in this book and other places concerning the inefficacy of touch therapies. It is difficult to argue with medical literature.
•    Point to position statements from major medical institutions such as those mentioned in this book that indicate that many large health care systems do not support the use of touch therapies in their treatment plans.
•    Point out the spiritual nature of touch therapies and inform management that not only do they contradict your faith, but they cause you to impose a particular belief system on your patients. Refer patients interested in touch therapies to other health care professionals who perform these treatments.
•    Find like-minded co-workers willing to support your position and stand together.


Chaplains and Spiritual Counselors

•    Inform management of your discomfort in providing touch therapies, and offer to act as a liaison between the patient requesting services and a practitioner in the community.
•    Refer patients to other chaplains who have no qualms about providing such services.
•    Ask to be dismissed from training sessions regarding touch therapies on the basis that it violates your ministerial code of ethics.
•    Ask not to be required to perform alternative therapies because it contradicts the denominational commitment you are required to uphold as a minister in good standing.


Patients and Family Members

•    Refuse to accept touch therapy treatments. You do not have to give a reason; you have the right to refuse any medical treatment you choose.
•    If medical personnel begin treatment without asking permission, or if they begin doing something you feel uncomfortable with, tell them to stop immediately! If this continues to be a problem, report it to management and your treating physician.
•    If your choice is not respected, do not hesitate to move your loved one to another health care facility that will respect your choices.
•    Purchase copies of this book to use as a means to educate others about the dangers of touch therapies in our hospitals and hospices.


Pastors, Teachers and Professors

•    Consider hosting a seminar with the author to speak on this topic to your class or congregation.
•    Preach a series on the dangers of the occult from the standpoint of Christian apologetics.
•    Conduct small group studies of this book based on the study guide within
•    Consult with the author to ask questions and learn more through his website.
•    Use this book as required reading for your class.

You and I are not powerless to take a stand against the occult or the dangers associated with touch therapies and alternative medicine. Ephesians 6:11-16 admonishes us to, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.” We must always keep in mind that “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4)