Bob Larson

Robert ("Bob") Larson (born May 28, 1944) is an American radio and television evangelist and pastor of Spiritual Freedom Church (Phoenix, Arizona). His ministry has evolved across phases: (1) 1970s–1980s — anti-rock-music radio ministry critiquing what he characterized as occult, leftist, sexual, and Eastern-religious-mystical influence in rock music; (2) late 1980s onward — radio-and-television exorcism ministry, with on-air-caller exorcisms a regular feature of his radio show; (3) 2010s onward — International School of Exorcism (founded 2013), Skype-exorcism service ($295 per session as of 2014; pricing has varied), the "Teenage Exorcists" framework with his daughter Brynne and friends. He has authored multiple books on demonology, spiritual warfare, and exorcism. His ministry maintains BobLarson.org and Bob Larson University (BobLarsonUniversity.org) as primary online platforms. He has been publicly contested across multiple decades, with documented criticism from Christian Research Institute (Equip.org's "The Devil is in the Details: An Examination of the Teachings of Bob Larson"), various journalistic investigations, the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix's distancing, and substantial popular-skeptical critique.

• Cessation — Strong continuationist; the entire framework assumes operative supernatural ministry.
• Believer Can Be Demonized — Affirmed; believers can be oppressed/occupied requiring deliverance. Standard mainstream-deliverance-stream position.
• Deliverance Ministry Today — Affirmed substantively; deliverance / exorcism is normative ministry. Larson operates this in distinctively public-spectacle register (on-air exorcism, Skype-exorcism, training-school framework). The methodology overlaps with mainstream deliverance-stream (Prince, Eckhardt) while differing in public-presentation, monetization, and specific contested practices.
• Experience as Confirmation — Substantial — Larson's framework places extensive weight on his reported supernatural encounters and exorcism testimonies as ministry-foundation. The Christian Research Institute's specific concern: "dangerous ideas established by his alleged encounters with the supernatural" — the experience-as-confirmation can drift into experience-overruling-Scripture if not carefully filtered.

• Bob Larson — Spiritual Freedom Church