Tabachnick Highlights Conservative Christian Opponents of NAR

Rachel Tabachnick has for good reason become known as the leading critic of the New Apostolic Reformation and her work with Bruce Wilson at Talk to Action has been regularly mentioned by those who appreciate and those who criticize her work. But she recently did something very important, and refreshingly humble, by highlighting the long work of conservative Christians who have been alarmed about NAR's beliefs and practices for years. Like her, I do not agree with the theological commitments of many or even any of these groups, but I want to highlight these groups as well for five reasons:

1) To make clear that way before Perry's Response made NAR and C. Peter Wagner political issues, NAR and C. Peter Wagner were theological issues.


2) To make clear that the attempts by some in the media to make concern over NAR a result of Tabachnick's supposed obsession with the group, rather than a legitimate concern rooted in careful analysis and theological concern, are belied by the fact that these conservative Christian groups have been concerned about NAR for reasons much different from Rachel's.

3) To encourage Christian readers of my blogs to explore the vast literature online about NAR's beliefs for themselves.

4) To challenge directly Wagner's recent prayer letter signaling out Talk to Action as the source of criticism of NAR and stating that they were tools of demonic powers. If she is serving the devil then all these Christian folk are too.

5) To demonstrate the depth of research and analysis that Rachel has engaged in to arrive at her judgments. As she comes under increasing scrutiny, people should know the work that she has put into her reporting.

With those fivethings in mind, here is what Rachel has posted so far about other sources of information about NAR. Neither she or I mean to endorse all these links, but rather want to make them more widely available for consideration.

Years before there were any articles about the New Apostolic Reformation on Talk2Action, numerous conservative Christian websites wrote about the movement and the growth of Dominionism in great detail.   In 2003, when I was beginning to learn about the movement, I followed some of these websites in order to understand their perspective on the movement and continue to read them. I have not used many of them for references in my work in the past, because I am approaching the NAR as a threat to separation of church and state and religious pluralism and not as a critic of the validity of their theology.  I am not recommending or providing verification for the material in the links that follow.  However, this is small sample of a body of media that negates the absurd claims that only liberal or secular writers are concerned about Dominionism, the NAR, and their unique brand of spiritual warfare and apostolic government... Again, I am not recommending, agreeing with, or verifying the material in the following links. It is not the mission of Talk2action.org to debate theology or to claim superiority of a specific belief system, as seen in some of the following links. Many of these are "discernment" or "apologetics" websites and some view beliefs not in line with their own as heretical. Some are fundamentalists or evangelicals who reject the Charismatic belief altogether, but others are from inside the Charismatic/Pentecostal sector and at least one is Charismatic Catholic.   Some of these links are from organizations with significant followings and some are from individual writers. There are factual errors in some of these posts linked below. Some are written from a worldview in which the NAR is feared as the apostate church of the end times and even lumped together with "liberal" churches or as a plot of the Catholic church. However, the writers in the links below have monitored the NAR for years and document a long history of concern about the movement from a number of different conservative Christian perspectives. Links: http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/newapostolic.html The posts on the NAR at www.deceptioninthechurch.com go back at least as far as 1998.   The video at right is produced by Sandy Simpson and the Apologetics Coordination Team.  Read an overview at this website. http://op.50megs.com/ditc/nardvd.html Apologetics Index on the NAR http://www.apologeticsindex.org/722-new-apostolic-reformation Herescope Who Invented Dominionism? http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-invented-dominionism.ht ml Assemblies of God End Time Revival-Spirit-Led and Spirit-Controlled: A Response Paper to Resolution 16 (2000) http://ministers.ag.org/pdf/EndtimeRevival.pdf Lausanne Movement Deliver Us From Evil Consultation Papers (2000) Gaining Perspective on Territorial Spirits, by Scott Moreau http://www.lausanne.org/en/component/content/article.html?id=202 Christianity Today Do Demons Have Zip Codes? (July 13, 1998) http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/july13/8t8057.html Spiritual Mapping in the United States and Argentina, 1989 - 2005, by René Holvast (2009) Based on Holvast's dissertation for the University of Utrecht, this is a "comprehensive historical-descriptive approach of both the movement and the concept, with special attention for theological and anthropological concepts."   The Road to Holocaust: Unchecked the Dominion Theology movement among Christians could lead us - and Israel- to disaster Hal Lindsey (1989) Lindsey is a Dispensationalist and graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary.  He wrote in 1989 about the growth of Dominionism, including the introduction of Reconstructionism into Charismatic ministries by way of Gary North and David Chilton. Let us Reason This ministry has numerous posts on the NAR, including this on on the Manifest Sons of God theology found in Charismatic Dominionism. http://www.letusreason.org/latrain1.htm Seek God Numerous posts including this one on Manifest Sons of God theology. http://www.seekgod.ca/warnock.htm Herescope has posts on Manifest Sons of God theology and numerous other issues concerning the NAR. http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/12/bill-hamon-and-manifested-s ons-of-god.html Herescope 2002 post on "Geographical Heresies of the New Apostolic Reformation" http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/02/geographical-heresies-of-ne w-apostolic.html Herescope post on Rick Perry's The Response http://herescope.blogspot.com/2011/07/divorcing-baal.html Discernment-Ministries, Inc. Sarah Leslie http://www.discernment-ministries.org/ChristianImperialism.htm Orrel Steinkamp's work is posted on numerous websites. This website, View From the Bunker begins with this quote, "To Dominionists, Jesus' return to Earth is on hold, waiting for us to conquer it first." http://vftb.net/?p=3737 Orrel Steinkamp in Critical Issues Commentary in 2001 http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue66b.htm Counterfeit Revival by Hank Hanegraaff, 1997 Christian Research Institute "Joel's Army Marches On" http://www.equip.org/articles/joel-s-army-marches-on Critique of "Covering Theology" http://coveringandauthority.com/ Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare: A Modern Mythology http://www.christianbook.com/strategic-level-spiritual-warfare-mo dern-mythology/michael-reid/9781591604587/pd/04583 Websites Debunking the Transformations Movies http://www.religioninfo.org/transformations1.html http://www.concernedchristians.50megs.com/index.html http://www.bibleguidance.co.za/Engarticles/Transformations.htm http://herescope.blogspot.com/2006/02/george-otis-transformation- spiritual.html Brannon Howse and Worldview Weekend Howse has regularly featured post on the NAR over the last few months. http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?artic leid=7453   Promotion for Brannon Howse audio, Exposing Joel's Army Part One: One news headline recently declared, "Rick Perry bases call for national salvation on `Joel's army' Cult". The New Apostolic Reformation believes in the "Manifested Sons of God" also known as "Joel's Army" or "supermen" a "Superman race" a "new breed". This is the belief that members of the NAR will evolve into literally being Christ on earth, sinless, immortal, and able to raise the dead, Judge the church and nations and form a new government. This is nothing less than New Age, pagan spirituality. The NAR takes Joel 2 out of context to build their "Joel's Army" Gnosticism and yet Governor Perry of Texas is working with NAR members for his August 6, 2011 prayer rally and he is using Joel 2 as the justification for this rally. Why are Christian and pro-family leaders entering into a spiritual enterprise with false teachers that were rejected by the Assemblies of God 40 years ago for its cultish beliefs? Does Perry think his uniting with such paganism will make him more appealing to Christian voters? Worldview Weekend post on what happened when they spoke to "New Religious Right" leaders about their work with the NAR. http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?artic leid=7615 Ernie Gruen, a charismatic pastor in Kansas City,  compiled a 233-page report on the Kansas City Prophets, which included Mike Bickle, Paul Cain, Bob Jones, and others.  The title of the report is "Documentation of the Aberrant Practices and Teachings of Kansas City Fellowship" and it initiated a huge controversy in 1990. http://www.birthpangs.org/articles/kcp/kcp-gruen.html This is the accompanying January 20, 1990 audio of Gruen titled, "Do We Keep Smiling and Say Nothing?" http://www.archive.org/details/DoWeKeepSmilingAndSayNothingErnieG ruenJan201990 Christian Research Journal on the controversy over the Kansas City Prophets http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0044 a.html Slaughter of the Sheep blog on "The Dominon Mandate" http://slaughteringthesheep.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/the-dominion -mandate/ Charismatic Chaos, by John MacArthur (1993) MacArthur described C. Peter Wagner and John Wimber's Third Wave in 1993 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0310575729/104-1908450-4011953?v =glance&n=283155&v=glance Catholic Reason A Charismatic Catholic critique of the New Apostolic Reformation http://www.catholicreason.com/shtml/warfare.shtml Churchmouse Campanologist on C. Peter Wagner http://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/fuller-theological-s eminary-alums-c-peter-wagner/ Doctrine of Demons, by Tricia Tillin This is an extensive article in 12 segments about the New Apostolic pardigm and its roots in the Latter Rain Movement.  (Scroll down to "Latter Rain/Sonship & Dominion Teachings.") http://www.banner.org.uk/ Eastern Regional Watch New Apostolic Reformation/Second Apostolic Age http://www.erwm.com/New%20Apostolic%20Reformation.htm Bene Diction Blogs On - Canada http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/12/28/vancouver-salvation- army-being-taught-by-new-apostolic-reformation/ Antipas Ministries "The Superman Theology of the International Christian Embassy's Feast of Tabernacles" http://www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000095.htm The Berean Call "Damnable Heresies Entering the Church," by Marsha West http://www.thebereancall.org/node/8639 A Review of C. Peter Wagner's Confronting the Powers, by John F. Hart, Moody Bible Institute, 1997 http://www.faithalone.org/journal/1997i/Hart.html The Third Wave Worldview: A Biblical Critique Direction Journal, Fall 2000 (Mennonite Brethren)http://www.directionjournal.org/article/?1055 In Plain Site "Dominion Theology: The Stench and Foul Smell of Joel's Army" http://www.inplainsite.org/html/dt3_new_apostolic_reformation.htm l SO4J http://so4jtv.com/false-teachings-latter-rain-new-apostolic-refor mation.php Pastoral Care Ministries "Spiritual Mapping: A Misguided Focus on the Demonic," by Leanne Payne http://www.leannepayne.org/articles/displayarticle.php?articleid= 1 Videos: Critical Issues Commentary Roots and Fruits of the New Apostolic Reformation Part 1A - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GswRs6tKk&feature=related Part 3C  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBu4lmd2fEA&feature=related Andrew Strom's "Kundalini Warning" Part One -http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnTheBaptistTV#p/a/u/2/eBpw2oQrvMM Part Two -http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnTheBaptistTV#p/a/u/1/BCcGaTRwG_4 Part Three -http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnTheBaptistTV#p/a/u/0/dWeUNoR30_0 Truthseekers Apostolic Reformation Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKeZTJceyGE Why Spiritual Warfare Does Not Deliver http://www.youtube.com/user/endtimesprophetic The Shocking History of Spiritual Warfare Overview of Frank Weston Sanford's similar spiritual warfare in the early 1900s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vAm1k22NTg&feature=related