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moves away from the limited and limiting Cartesian mind-body dichotomy that has dominated Enlightenment thought, a perspective affecting religious as well as secular thinking. Its worldview offers a creative response to both the straight-jacket of modernism and the abyss of postmodernism. Whether this latest venture of the Pentecostal/charismatic movement will be successful in retaining its distinctive perspective of whether it accommodates to the larger world-view of western society remains to be seen\u2019 (1999: 382).\u000AIntrigued by the \u2018Toronto Blessing\u2019 the researcher visited the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship from where this phenomenon emerged. He visited one of the churches formed through a process of decentralizing of the central church. In the service people worshipped seated, standing or reclining on carpets or shared their faith or concentrated on prayer on their own. People moved around to pray with others. After and hour and a half the service appeared to have finished. After talking and taking a beverage together the second part, the sermon started. The manner that they expressed their emotions, their spiritual battles and the way they came to God freely, was surprising. While this type of service may raise some questions it does show how these churches give priority to subjectivity of the Christian experience.\u000AIn NPCs services there is also this freedom although there is a little more control. In a visit that the researcher made to the Verbo church of the Zone 7, he was surprised at the time dedicated to praying in groups before the service. The governing elders led the prayers and attended the believers. For the IVF church, ministry of 71 praying for the sick or for liberation from spirits is part of the pastoral care that NPCs offer. To receive this ministry in the Neo-Pentecostal context represents for the believers not only help for their spiritual lives but also psychological help (L6IVF). These churches offer counselling inner healing and liberation from demons as a service to restore people and families. Of course this practise is not just to be found among the NPCs, but is a continuity of the Pentecostal heritage with regard to the ministry of liberation. Maybe the deference is the emphasis that the NPCs place on the theme of inner healing.\u000A71 Ministry of prayer has been a key element for the people with problems of identity, vices, forgiveness, healing, among others.\u000A 125\u000A