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on the behalf of his children. A greater understanding of this, especially for Western evangelical
scholars and missionaries engaged with the church in the Third World, will be helpful in
bridging a worldview gap that often exists. The benefit of encounter with occult and magic is
that it can stimulate a return to a biblical worldview which has been forsaken, eclipsed or
neglected in the West and enrich the understanding of what it means to be an evangelical
Christian.