mikedsjr
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How can one tell a NARite from a typical charismatic? Why are NARites heretics?The NARzie movement which is the New Apostolic Reformation was created by Peter C. Wagner back in the 90’s, or more properly, where he took over the leadership of an existing association where he both renamed it and defined its agenda. There are also other NAR type groups out there who are independent of Wagners creation but they all have the same dominionist agenda.
They emphasise the Five-fold ministry model of Eph 4 where they focus on the roles of the prophet but primarily with that of the Apostle who they say is to not only govern the local church but where each “apostle” is supposed to also govern specific regions of the church.
This approach is merely a rehash of the old latter-rain movement which came out of Canada back in 1948 but Wagner was able to make it more palatable where it seems to have a tendency to attract the more narcissistic church leader to its ranks. In either 1948 or 49, the International AoG rightfully deemed the latter-rain movement to be dangerous heresy where for a few generations it existed within the more “cultic” Pentecostal and charismatic congregations, but now it has its tentacles firmly wrapped around many established mainstream congregations.
A good example with the eccentric behaviour that is regularly found in this ‘movement’ was with the horrid Todd Bentley fiasco of a couple years back where the so called NARzie council commissioned Bentley as being the ‘latest and greatest’ thing of God for years, where within only two weeks his life and ministry was shown to be a fraud where almost every form of wickedness was uncovered within both his life and ‘ministry’. This fiasco should have been a wakeup call for all those who are a part of the various NAR groups to realise that it is a ‘movement’ that is built on the ambitions of greedy and misguided individuals.
In summary, it has the potential to completely derail the Church and for those who wish to engage with the poor folks from churchs such as Bethel in Redding, then they will need to come up to speed with this horrid movement and in particular to equip themselves to address them from within a theological framework. Though if the people in the video at the start of this thread are from Bethel, then you might also want to carry a remedy (if there is one) for cookies that might have been laced with some form of psychotropic drug.
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