The New Apostolic Reformation & Charlie Kirk

Part I: What is NAR?

The New Apostolic Reformation, aka NAR, is a movement in evangelical churches started by C. Peter Wagner in the late 90s.

NAR is not a denomination and it does not have any set or elected leaders or *official* ideology that defines it.

Rather NAR is a hodgepodge of beliefs, rituals and practices pulled from various traditions within mainstream charismatic and Pentecostal churches. 

The core belief posited by Wagner was the Christians must engage in spiritual warfare to bring about Christian dominion over all aspects of society.

When this is accomplished, the road will be paved for Christ to return. 

NAR is led by apostles believed to have been appointed by God. These apostles are delegated spiritual authority that grants them authority over the entire Church- which is one of the most controversial aspects of NAR. 

NAR churches do not advertise that they are NAR. And just because a church adopts one or two NAR ideas, doesn’t mean they adopt them all.

Decentralization has been key to NAR’s rapid growth. 

NAR rejects many traditional church teachings around the role of women in the church. Women can become apostles and pastors in NAR churches. The most famous one being Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White-Cain. 

The 7 Mountain Mandate has become the most important idea with the NAR movement and the one to gain the most traction.

The 7MM dictates that Christians must engage in spiritual warfare to dominate the 7 most important aspects of society:

This idea was conceived in the 1970s but revived and refined in the 2013 book “Invading Babylon: The 7 Mountain Mandate” by Lance Wallnou a televangelist and Bill Johnson, senior pastor of Bethel Church, a megachurch in Northern California. 

As far as Charlie goes, these are the NAR names you need to know, in addition to those already listed above:

Rob McCoy: pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks California

Sean Feucht: former worship leader at Bethel church and 2020 Congressional candidate

Jack Hibbs: senior pastor of megachurch Calvary Chapel Chino Hills

David Lane: longtime Republican consultant and activist, member of Rob McCoy’s Godspeak Calvary Chapel 

For the purposes of my threads, I think that’s enough intro. If you want to go down the NAP rabbit hole, and trust me, it’s DEEP, here are a few intro links with lots of additional links of their own:

link 1

link 2

link 3

link to orginal

Part II: The prophet, the Donald & the cabana boy

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This is a very important thread on Evangelical Christianity and what a major faction within it is doing and why.

Trump allied with NAR because politics.

In some respects, a force like this one can have good effects and good results, because politics and social cohesion.

How much they have been infiltrated and/or influenced by Zionism, I do not know but doubt it is a minor factor.

Bottom line for me, I would prefer a strong Christian society to a totalitarian leftist one.

I am wary of religious forces like this, but all civilizations have lowest-common-denominator metacognitive beliefs and values which govern them.

A dominant, even domineering, Christianity would probably remain open to moral suasion and not harm non-believers who did not harm them.

Welcome to the human race.

Don’t make perfect be the enemy of good-enough realism.

Maybe AI will fix this. :) ABN