If you’ve ever wondered why modern churches rarely show the kind of dramatic encounters with demons that Jesus and the apostles faced in the Bible, you’re not alone. Everywhere Jesus went, Scripture records demons shrieking through people and being cast out. Yet today, especially in many churches across the United States, it often feels like the demonic is barely discussed, much less confronted. So, is the Bible wrong? Are demons just not active anymore?
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Mike Signorelli, featured on Kap Chatfield’s Directed Life podcast, offers one of the best explanations for this puzzling reality. “It’s like this weird fear of they’re going to think that I’m ‘that guy,’” he says, referring to pastors and church leaders avoiding the topic of demons. But he challenges this silence head-on: “If you’re a Christian, you’re already in on psychopathic level crazy. You believe that a teenage girl was impregnated by a spirit and conceived a human named Jesus.”
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Signorelli points out that the ministry of deliverance was not just a part of Jesus’ work but continued through the apostles. “It was predominantly this stuff,” he says, emphasizing how much of the gospel narrative revolves around healing and spiritual warfare. For instance, he cites Acts 19: “They’re praying over handkerchiefs because they don’t have phones… When they touched the handkerchiefs, they were healed of diseases and unclean spirits came out of them.”
He warns against reducing these accounts to mystical superstition or novelty. “I truly believe the heart behind it wasn’t ‘let me get some kind of mystical object that holds power.’ I really believe the point was we believe so much that people need to be free from the influence of demons and that they can be healed that we will do whatever we can to get a point of contact to them.”
One reason for the lack of visible deliverance in many churches today is that they have “cut out 95%” of the Bible’s supernatural content. “They became almost like self-help gurus minus the supernatural,” Signorelli explains. But he encourages believers to return to the full biblical narrative: “What if we just actually teach the scriptures no matter how awkward it gets? It produced a lot of fruit.”
Signorelli also shares powerful testimony of healing through modern ministry, including online platforms. He recalls praying for a woman with multiple sclerosis (MS) during a YouTube livestream. “Immediately, she feels mental clarity, pain subside from her body. She felt like she was healed.”
Importantly, Signorelli balances faith and medicine: “I encourage you to go to your doctor to get the verification of what I believe could happen right now.” He stresses that healing and deliverance were “normal occurrences” in the early church, grounded in faith and God’s power, not on the minister.
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Ultimately, Mike Signorelli’s insight invites the church today to embrace a fuller understanding of spiritual ministry — one that includes healing, deliverance and confronting the demonic, just as Jesus and the apostles did. The supernatural is not a relic of the past but a living reality, waiting for believers with faith and boldness to step into it.
Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
I agree 100%. The Church is rift with only using natural understanding. They read a scripture and set it aside. If they can’t reason through it, they discount it. Instead, it should be if the Bible says it then it’s true. So I need to walk in it. I’m casting out devils without mentioning it to those who have them and I’m seeing fruit. Only dare to tell a few that I’m doing this.