In his book,Territorial Spirits and World Evangelization? (Mentor/OMF, 199),Chuck Lowe concludes that the strategic-level spiritual warfare advocated by the likes of C. Peter Wagner is unbiblical and the claims associated with it are unfounded. He points the way forward by exploring the experience of James Fraser, a pioneer missionary among the Lisu people in the far-western Chinese province of Yunnan in the early twentieth century. Fraser perceived spiritual warfare taking place through:
1)Attacks on new converts. The Lisu were bound to demon worship through fear of physical illness. When the family members of new converts fell ill there was strong pressure to return to demonic worship.
2)Public demonstrations of occult power in rituals.
3) Human opposition to the message,
4) Attacks on the missionaries (illness, fatigue, doubt, depression).
He wrote:
It is all if and when. I believer the devil is fond of those conjunctions… The Lord bids us work, watch and pray: but Satan suggests, wait until a good opportunity for working, watching and praying presents itself – and needless to say, this opportunity is always in the future. (Cited 134)
Lowe himself comments: ‘A small temptation, perhaps, but laziness leads progressively to life-long failure and was to be opposed earnestly in disciplined prayer.’ (134)