talk2action | The New Apostolic Reformation can now be defined as a distinct movement
with a unique ideology. The leaders of the movement, called apostles
and prophets, claim that this is the most significant change in
Protestantism since Martin Luther and the Reformation. The stated goal
of the NAR is to eradicate denominations and form a unified church that
will be victorious against evil in the end times. Like many American
fundamentalists, the apostles teach that the events of the end times are
imminent, but unlike fundamentalists, the apostles see this as a time
of great victory for the church.
Instead of escaping the earth (in the Rapture)* prior to the turmoil of
the end times, they teach that believers will defeat evil by taking
dominion, or control, over all sectors of society and government,
resulting in mass conversions to their brand of Charismatic
evangelicalism and a Christian utopia or "Kingdom" on earth. The end
times narrative of the apostles is similar to that of the Latter Rain
movement of the late 1940s and 1950s.
The Transformations
movies, Transformation organizations worldwide, and the Seven Mountains
campaign are promotional tools to market their methodology for taking
Christian dominion over: arts; business; education; family; government;
media; and religion. The apostles who lead in areas outside church are
called Workplace or Marketplace Apostles.
The apostles teach that the obstacles to their envisioned Kingdom on
earth are literal demonic beings who hold control over geographic
territory and specific "people groups." They claim this demonic control
is the reason why people of other religions refuse to become evangelized
and that the demons are also the source of crime, corruption, illness,
poverty, and homosexuality. Purging of the demons results in mass
evangelization and eradication of social ills, as claimed in the Transformations,
media.
The apostles teach that their followers are currently receiving
an outpouring of supernatural powers to help them fight these demons
through what they call Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare (SLSW).
These unique concepts and methodologies, previously unknown in the evangelical world, include spiritual mapping
to identify and purge both demons and their human helpers, sometimes
identified in training materials as witches and witchcraft. Another
requirement of this utopian Kingdom on earth is the restructuring of all
Charismatic evangelical believers under the authority of their network
of apostles, the eradication or unification of denominations, and the
total elimination of competing religions and philosophies.
Many of the evangelical "Reconciliation" programs popularized over the
last decade are an outgrowth of the apostles' SLSW efforts to remove
demons including "generational curses" which they claim obstruct
evangelization of specific ethnicity groups. These activities have
political significance not apparent to outsiders. For instance, Senator Sam Brownback worked extensively
with leading apostles in pursuing an official apology from the U.S.
Senate to Native Americans. However, the NAR advertised this Identificational Repentance and Reconciliation
a SLSW method to remove demonic control over Native Americans,
evangelize tribes, and curiously, as a required step in their spiritual
warfare progress in criminalizing abortion.
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