TAKING OVER AND REDEFINING CHRISTIANITY
The underlying extrabiblical revelations and teachings of this anti-Christian doctrine of “reshaping Christianity” are the ‘One New Man’, ‘New Breed’, ‘Billion Souls’, ‘End-Times Revival/Harvest’ and ‘New Apostolic Paradigm’ heresies.
We are starting with these quotes of Wagner so people can learn that it was indeed the New Apostolic Reformation cult that has intentions to change “the shape of Protestant Christianity around the world.”
Wagner writes,
The more I have studied the New Apostolic Reformation during the past few years, the more convinced I have become that we have a major transformation of Christianity on our hands. Don Miller titles his excellent new book on the subject Reinventing American Protestantism (University of California Press). By extension, I believe we are witnessing a reinventing of world Christianity. If that is the case, it is all the more reason to give God thanks for allowing us to be alive and active in His kingdom in these enthralling days.
Source: C. Peter Wagner, Apostles and Prophets: the foundation of the church, (Baker Publishing Group, California: US, Chosen Books: 2000), pg. 25.
Wagner writes,
THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION
A few months after this I began to research what I have chosen to call the New Apostolic Reformation. When Bill Hamon prophesied, I had not realized that the apostolic movement- as a movement- even existed. However, in 1993 it was almost from one day to the next that God began to show me the commonalities of the movement as well as its immense importance as a new wineskin to carry the Church into the twenty-first century. I now see that this is, in all probability, the heart of the outcome of the prophecy from John Paul Jackson that I would be called to “help reshape the face of Christianity.” Since then, this has been the primary focus of my research, teaching and writing. My books The New Apostolic Churches and Churchquake! were the first two to emerge from my new assignment, and this book is the third.
Source: C. Peter Wagner, Apostles and Prophets: the foundation of the church, (Baker Publishing Group, California: US, Chosen Books: 2000), pg. 18-19.
Wagner writes,
When I began researching the Pentecostal movement years ago, it already had a name. This new movement, however, did not have a name. Because I was planning to teach a seminary course based on it, I needed a name for my course. For a couple of years I experimented
The New Apostolic Reformation is an extraordinary work of God at the close of the twentieth century that is, to a significant extent, changing the shape of Protestant Christianity around the world.
with “postdenominationalism,” but strong protests from my denominational friends persuaded me that it might not be the best name. Besides, many of the new apostolic churches have remained within their denominations. “Independent Charismatic” does not seem to fit either because (1) these churches see themselves as interdependent, as opposed to independent, and (2) they are not all charismatic in orientation.
The name I have settled for this movement is the New Apostolic Reformation, and individual churches being designated as new apostolic churches.
I use “reformation” because, as I have said, these new wineskins appear to be at least as radical as those of the Protestant Reformation almost 500 years ago. “Apostolic” connotes a strong focus on outreach plus a recognition of present-day apostolic ministries. “New” adds a contemporary spin to the name.”
Although many people were begging for a definition of the New Apostolic Reformation from the beginning, I resisted formulating one until I believed I had a more mature grasp of the movement. Now that I have taught my first Fuller Seminary course about the subject, I believe it is time to take the risk of a definition, hoping that it will not have to be revised too frequently in the future:
The New Apostolic Reformation is an extraordinary work of God at the close of the twentieth century that is, to a significant extent, changing the shape of Protestant Christianity around the world. For almost 500 years, Christian churches have largely functioned within traditional denominational structures of one kind or another. Particularly in the 1990s, but having roots going back for almost a century, new forms and operational procedures are now emerging in areas such as local church government, interchurch relationships, financing, evangelism, missions, prayer, leadership selection and training, the role of the supernatural power, worship and other important aspects of church life. Some of these changes are being seen within denominations themselves, but for the most part they are taking the form of loosely structured apostolic networks. In virtually every region of the world, the new apostolic churches constitute the fastest-growing segment of Christianity.
Infinite creativity seems to be the watchword for assigning names to local churches. The “Crystal Cathedral” and “Community Church of Joy” are among the most prominent congregations in our country. “Icthus” churches are multiplying in England. On a recent visit to the Philippines I came in contact with “The Warm Body of Jesus Church.” One of my favorite churches in Argentina is “Waves of Love and Peace.” In Kenya, Thomas Muthee pastors “The Prayer Cave.”
Source: C. Peter Wagner, The New Apostolic Churches: rediscovering the New Testament model of leadership and why it is God’s desire for the church today, (Ventura, California: US, Regal Books: 1998), pg. 18-19.
C. PETER WAGNER & CINDY JACOBS
Apostle/Prophet Cindy Jacobs prophesied over C. Peter Wagner that God was going to use him to “change the face of Christianity.”
“Mike and I were sitting at a restaurant with Peter Wagner, and the Lord gave me a word for him, that God was going to use him to do something that would change the face of Christianity. And he said, “Well, I’ll probably never tell anybody that.” Oh, yeah, right, Then, well, right. That’s the second part. I was gonna say that. In fact, the Lord, the Lord, and the word of the Lord said, “It will be, it will be like unto what Martin Luther did.”
Source: Cindy Jacobs, National School of the Prophets: Mobilizing the Prophetic Office, http://www.letusreason.org/latrain21.htm, 11/05/2000. (Accessed 31/04/2017.) [Cached]
Heretic John Wimber
Bill Randles quoted John Wimber saying the following,
“I think the most wonderful thing God is doing for us in these last days is raising up and restoring completely apostolic leadership, apostolic authority- the hope of the church, the hope of the world, is the apostolic ministry…So here God is raising up a new standard, a new banner, if you will, that’s going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation … God has invited us to have a role in establishing this New Order of Christianity … God is offering to this generation something He has never offered to any other generation before. He’s giving us an open invitation to participate in something that will lead to the prize of all the ages … It’s greater than anything He’s ever done from Adam clear down through the millennium”
Source: Bill Randles, Beware of New Prophets, 1999. pg. 32. (Quoting John Wimber) [See archived quote from Academia: Dofrey Harold, The Apostolic and Prophetic Reformation: A Critical Study, Academia.edu]
Bickle:
CHANGING THE FACE OF CHRISTIANITY
IN ONE GENERATION
For years I had read Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and some of the Puritan writers, and I had adopted their theology of an unprecedented ingathering of souls at the end of the age.
But it was years later in September 1982, in a dirty little motel room in Cairo, Egypt, that the belief in an End Times outpouring of the Holy Spirit became a personal issue to me. The eight-by-eight-foot room was equipped with a small bed, squeaky ceiling fan, stone-age plumbing, and an assortment of crawling things that periodically scampered across the concrete floor. It was primitive by Western standards. I was alone, so I set aside the evening to spend with the Lord in prayer. I knelt on the cement floor by the rickety bed for about thirty minutes when I had one of the most incredible encounters that I’ve ever had.
You sent I didn’t see a vision, and I wasn’t caught up into heaven. I simply heard God speak to me. It wasn’t what some people call the audible voice. I call it the internal audible voice. I heard it as clearly as I would have heard it with my physical ears, and, honestly, it was terrifying. It came with such a feeling of cleanness, power, and authority. In some ways I felt I was being crushed by it. I wanted to leave, but I didn’t want to leave. I wanted it to be over, but I didn’t want it to be over.
I only heard a few sentences, and it only took a few moments, but every word had great meaning. The awe of God flooded my soul as I experienced a little bit of the terror of the Lord. I literally trembled and wept as God Himself communicated to me in a way I’ve never known before or since. The Lord simply said, “I will change the understanding and expression of Christianity in the earth in one generation.” It was a simple, straightforward statement, but I felt God’s power with each word as I received the Spirit’s interpretation. God Himself will make drastic changes in Christianity across the whole world. This reformation revival will be by His sovereign initiative.
I knew by the Holy Spirit that the phrase “the understanding of Christianity” meant the way Christianity is perceived by unbelievers. In the early church, people were afraid to associate casually with believers partly because of the displays of supernatural power (Acts 5:13). However, today, most unbelievers consider the church to be irrelevant to them. God will change the way unbelievers view the church. They once again will witness God’s wonderful yet terrifying power in the church. They will have a very different understanding of Christianity before God is finished with this generation.
I also knew by the Holy Spirit that the phrase “the expression of Christianity” meant the way the body of Christ expresses its life together. God is powerfully going to change the church so that it functions as a unified holy people in the power and love of God. What happens when we gather together will change dramatically. We will see unparalleled power, purity, and unity in the End Time church.
Christians’ relationships with God and each other, the way we will be perceived by unbelievers, and even the structure and functioning of the church will be radically changed by God Himself across the whole earth This change will take place–not in a month, a year, or a few years–but in
one generation. ‘That night in Cairo I understood this for the first time by a supernatural prophetic encounter with the Holy Spirit.
The understanding and expression of Christianity is going to be changed by a great outpouring of the Spirit that will cross all national, social, ethnic, and cultural barriers. It won’t be just a Western-world revival or only a third world revival. The Joel 2/Acts 2 prophecy says that in the last days God will pour out of His Spirit on “all flesh” (Acts 2:17).
A lot of things will change as a result of this progressive outpouring of the Spirit. It will have many multidimensional expressions so that it will not simply be seen as an evangelism movement, a healing movement, a prayer movement, a unity movement, or a prophetic movement. It will be all of those and more. Above all things, it will impart deep passion for Jesus through the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit longs above all things to glorify Jesus in the human heart John 16:14). He wants to impart holy affections for Jesus in the church as we understand our identity as the bride of Christ (Rev. 22:17). Speaking of this outpouring only in terms of a prophetic movement is a much too limited concept.
The increase of prophetic ministry in the local church involves more than verbal, inspirational prophecy. It will include angelic visitations, dreams, visions, and signs and wonders in the sky, as well as an increase in prophetic revelation, even the kind given through the subtle impressions of the Holy Spirit.
My experience in the Cairo hotel room lasted less than an hour, though it seemed like a couple of hours. I left the room and walked around the streets of downtown Cairo alone until about midnight, committing myself to the Lord and His End Time purpose. The awe of God lingered in my soul for hours. I woke up the next day still feeling its impact. This experience connected my heart in a deeply personal way to the End Time fulfillment of the Joel 2/Acts 2 prophecy on a global level in this generation. My approach to pastoring in the local church changed radically on that one evening in September 1982. Little did I know that I was about to be introduced to a new dimension of the prophetic–confirmation of prophetic words through the acts of God in nature.
Source: Mike Bickle, Growing in the prophetic, (Charisma House: 2008), pg. 79-81. [Read on Googlebooks]
The below quotes are in favour of Apostle Mike Bickle and his IHOPKC movement “changing the face of Christianity,”
Mike Bickle in Nürnberg Sept 6th 1992
Prophetic word concerning England and Germany, January 1990 and May 1988 by John Wimber and Paul Cain, Baltimore, conference
- John Wimber awoke suddenly from his sleep which never happened to him like this before– he knew that the Lord spoke to him. The Lord said: We must go to London right away.
- Prophetic team member: Saw John in an open vision in the morning (without knowing of John Wimber’s experience) being in a deep sleep and saw an angel of the Lord awakening him from
the sleep and I saw the word of the Lord being given to him in a powerful way telling him to go to London right away. The Lord has a purpose for Europe and he is going to touch London, but that is only the beginning of Gods strategy. I saw in the open vision a map of Europe and the Lord putting down His foot in London and the next step on Berlin. It was awesome to see how the Lord set His feet down in Europe. The dust arose as He sat His foot (symbol for humanity- we came from dust and return to dust). God is going to visit London and Berlin and it will cause the dust to be stirred in a powerful way. God has a purpose for these cities and these two nations that will stir the entire world. The glory of God will be revealed in these two cities and these two nations and God is going to raise up these two nations to give leadership to the world in the things of God. God was going to
restore many things - Spiritual reformation
- When the dust came up: humans in confusion, persecution and division: when the Lord puts His foot down there will be confusion, persecution and division against what He does. Many of us are
believing for the glory of God to touch Germany. The devil will bring great resistance – the dust will rise when God sets His foot on Berlin. - Two very important cities – stand also for the nation
- John doesn’t receive words of direction a lot and he told nobody!
- Paul Cain came in: John tells him the vision. Paul said: I just had a vision about London and Berlin
- About a week later: Leonard Ravenhill, Los Angeles: He had a dream that God would visit London and Berlin, that He has awesome things planned for Europe
- Rick Joyner: He saw things about London and Berlin as well
- The word of the Lord confirmed it everywhere we went
- Americans seeing the will of God for Germany and England. There is no human reason to see the visitation of God anywhere else except for His glory
- Stirred up the intercessors in the U.S.
- God chooses nations when He wants to. He chooses cities because He is sovereign and has the right to do so
- God gave understanding as to why this choice: For over 500 years God has caused GER and ENG to have role of leadership in many areas: cultural, math, science, spiritual, political…
- It is not because they are better, but He chooses according to His sovereign choice – Rom 9:15: according to God who has mercy
- God has confirmed over and over the destiny of GER to the prophets in the U.S.
- Some of you have no revelation of the destiny in this nation. If God gives a high calling to a nation, the devil will come with a very high deception against this nation. He will come with an attack against those nations
- God will cause greater dealings to prepare those nations for the glory of God, may increase before He is finished
- World leadership in the genetics of GER in many areas Before Jesus returns there will be a reformation sweeping the world that comes out of GER, out of unity of GER and ENG together in the Spirit of God
- The Lord said: it is very important that the spiritual fathers from GER and ENG are united for the sake of the move of God in the world. There has to be unity amongst the spiritual fathers of those
nations. One of Satan’s reasons for the WW’s was that the devil wanted to separate the spiritual fathers in this hour from ever being unified. Satan has worked to create an irreconcilable division between the spiritual fathers of these nations - He is causing and has caused for national bitterness and division to increase, because the Lord has the true purpose to cause unity- unity amongst the true fathers in the spirit, not political
unity, but spiritual. Satan tries to divide the body of Christ especially in those two nations - Great revival to sweep across GER
- Great and significant changes in one generation of Christianity across all of Europe and the whole world. Encounter of Mike Bickle in September 1982: God said in an audible voice “I will change the face of Christianity in one generation across the world”. “I am going to change the understanding and expression of Christianity in one generation” Change the understanding of Christianity in one generation: the way the unbeliever understands the church right now is very negative. The world
looks at the church and says it has no power, is self righteous and barren, lack of purity and holiness of heart, nations of the world mock the church in this hour, they don’t take it serious at all in their own lives. God will change it in one generation. The world will see the power of God and tremble before the church. Kings of the earth will either bow or fight it with all they got. When God
restores the power to the church hundreds of thousands will follow it. Martyrdom will increase bc the world is threatened by the church. God will change the understanding in GER and all of
Europe. It will happen in one generation! The zeal of God is kindled afresh for His Word right now over Europe. God promised an inheritance to His Son and He will have it! - Understanding: how the unbeliever relates to church
- Expression: how the Christians relate to the church, the way we express our lives as community before God
- God will take the church out of mere Sunday meetings and make them a Bride that has relevance
- Something more dramatic than even the reformation of the 1500s is going to come out of this nation! There will be the glory of God but there will also be great pain and confusion when it happens! The reformation will be in the lifestyle and how we live together It will be as radical as the first reformation when it is complete. God will do it very swiftly and powerfully
- Prepare for change! Change will come more radical than many can even understand
- What God did in the early church will be surpassed by the end time church! NT was just a seed, end-time will be full mature tree of what the early church was a seed. There will be no new doctrines, but in terms of quality and quantity it will surpass the early church
- A great change is coming
- Be sober
- There is a zeal burning in the heart of God over the nations
- Change will bring great conflict. The church in Europe has never changed without great conflict in other arenas. Prepare for great conflict in the spirit and natural in the coming years
- Spirit of unbelief has almost completely crippled the church. The Lord has zeal for the sake of His Son. It is a serious and glorious hour!
- God is preparing His people for something awesome. God is going to do something awesome in Europe and He is inviting you to participate in it
- He is going to change the expression of Christianity in one generation
- There are more people on earth now than in the whole history of mankind
- 1 billion saved. Europe is going to be the key for this thing. ENG and GER will give leadership in these things
- May 1988 Paul Cain- 3 political revelations, all confirmed in different time frames – relates to what God is going to do in GER. Paul Cain came in the office and we spent a day together in KC, President Bush was running for president 1st term. Bush was out fishing according to news – Paul gave him a prophetic political parable: the Lord said: “George Bush is not fishing, he is hunting
for quail right now. But quail will be behind the bush.” (first revelation then interpretation)… it was literal, we thought it was symbolic. Then he said: “after that parable happens, something of greater value is going to happen: I saw the Lord give a death blow to communism around the world and in Europe. God will hit communism in the chest and knock it out. Many prophets saw that – that is not the point! It will going to happen very quickly. It will happen in the 1st year of George Bush being president. That is to build faith in a greater way than the 1st part. The 3rd part is the main point: something terrible is going to happen. It will look like communism is dead, but it is not at all! There will be a marriage of Communism and Islam together. It will have a new form and a new name. It will be horrendously evil what the enemy plans for Europe. It will affect all the nations of the earth in a very terrible way. The church in Europe must wake up bc something is planned by Satan in some years that will be horrible and the church must prepare for the end-time events! That is not the whole point: God will raise up the church in Europe that will be greater than the plans of Satan. The hour is more serious than the church in Europe understands. What happened in the 30’s and
40’s was just a dress rehearsal for what the enemy is planning to do! (Rick Joyner) - I believe that kings of the earth will come in unity. Europe will be the central spot of the conflict. There will be a reformation coming out of Germany that will be stronger than the plan of Satan. The saints of England and GER must join together! The Fathers must be in unity together bc of the great attack of Satan in maybe 10-20 yrs or so…
- The greatest conflict is the conflict of the passion of the souls of man. God wants a church that is radical in love with Him, Satan wants a people passionate against Christ Jesus in Europe. Jn
17:26: the love that You have for me, let it be in them. That the church would love me like You do! The greatest promise is that we are filled with the same love that the Father has for Jesus! That is the greatest battlefield! The Father has committed the affections of the earth for His Son. The ends of the earth belong to God! Satan wants them for himself! - Interpretation of the 1st prophetic word: Bush hunting for quail: 2 mths later: Bush appointed his vice-president with the name Dan Quail! He was a young man, unheard of in the political arena
and scandal came against him and he had to hide behind George Bush and Bush protected him! The first parable was thus true! That was only to give faith for the next revelation. 2nd prophecy was fulfilled 18 months later: - God has more to release through servants inside and outside of GER! KC has been praying for Berlin and GER for a couple years for revival
- We will be behind you and serving you
- This is a prophetic nation (Germany). God wants to birth the power of the prophetic in this nation through your own prophets!
- There is a great calling on ENG and GER in the heart of God from the beginning. Calling to world leadership in the things of the spirit. The things of the natural are just a picture for the spiritual
things - There is going to be a great reformation that is going to come out of these two nations that will sweep to the ends of the earth. It will combine deep accurate theology in the word of God with the release of the Holy Spirit in full measure yet with deep affection and passion for the Man Jesus Christ in His beauty. The deep theological teachings of the Word, the great release of the Spirit without measure and the great affectionate passion for the Son of God culminating at the end of the age coming out of ENG and GER together in unity
- Satan has already got the spirit of Communism and Islam together – he has a horrendous plan for Europe and some of it is going to take place and it will be terrible for many people. As Satan takes his last attempt to steal the inheritance of Jesus, but the zeal of God is kindled afresh over Europe and He says: I will not let you prevail! I will give the souls of 1 billion people to my Son.
- The church of GER and ENG will rise up and lead the nations of the earth into the fullness of His promises. Many changes are coming. Lay your life at the altar and give it all to God! God’s only choice is to use weak people, so we are all invited! We are all fallen and weak and broken people!
The passion for Jesus will be the greatest weapon against Satan!
Source: Mike Bickle in Nürnberg Sept 6th 1992, KingdomImpact.org, https://kingdomimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mike-Bickle-in-Nu%CC%88rnberg-Sept-6th-1992.pdf, Accessed April 02, 2023. [Archive]
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