Tri-State Woman Questions Preachers Teachings

A tri-state woman is still trying to recover after an experience she thought was supposed to be healing. The West Salem, Illinois woman attended a conference where an evangelist did an exorcism on her. It was five years ago today Shelley Coleman was pulled out of the audience by TV Evangelist Bob Larson. She was going through a hard time in her life and was looking for a way out. It turns out Larson was not the answer. Its hard to find anything but peace out in the Illinois country side. Its what Shelley Coleman finds, but that wasnt always the case. "I had dabbled in some things." Coleman grew up Christian, but like any teenager decided to explore other sides of religion. "I got involved in some magic." But after a few years she realized it was only causing trouble. "Once I got in it was hard to get out of." Coleman says she didnt know where to go, "I was reaching out for help." And she turned to this man Evangalist Bob Larson. She traveled to Tennessee to attend a similar conference to this one you can view online at Larsons website. "I was hoping it was preaching, teaching." But what she found, "I was a spectacle." Larson pulled Coleman out of the audience. He told her hair was full of demons and he asked to preform an exorcism similar to what hes doing to this man. Except Coleman says hers was violent. Larson and his teams held her down and hit her with the bible. It lasted two and half hours and turned her life around, but not like she hoped. "I see now its not right what he does". Coleman was left with years of severe panic attacks, trips to the hospital and physical pain shes still overcoming. But shes said shes found Jesus on her own. Her favorite bible passage, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." She says for anyone in life who feels lost, "praying reading the bible that was my only way out and thats really only anyones way out." Not healing from a TV evangelist. We are working on this story with our Fox affiliate in Los Angeles. Bob Larson will be in their area later this week to preform one of these conventions. What does he have to say about Colemans experience? Well get those answers at his next event and bring you that story next week