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NAR Show and Tell: Bianca Decries Joel's Army & New Apostolic Militancy
Here's "Bianca," a professed Christian who on Youtube goes by the name aProdigalChild, decrying the new militancy associated with New Apostolic and Third Wave Christianity. During the talk, she wonders how many congregations are caught up in the religious ideas she describes. As I noted in my Religion Dispatches story, Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World, there were by AD 2000, according to World Christian Trends AD 30 - AD 2200, 295 million people in the global megablock of what the book calls " disturbingly different" (WCT, page 299) Third Wave Christianity - out of which is arising the New Apostolic Reformation [for a primer on the NAR, see this sample course session from C. Peter Wagner's AP825 "Apostles and Prophets" course, (lefthand column)]. Becky Fisher, central starring figure in the documentary Jesus Camp, is a Third Wave Christian. According to World Christian Trends, the tendency has "no connection with historic Christianity." That's a judgment call; one could say that to find precedent for Third Wave Christianity it might be necessary to go back to the time period during which was written the Biblical Book of Acts. That would be a historic link. Regardless, Third Wave and New Apostolic Christianity is very, very different from mainstream Christianity as practiced in recent centuries. ( below: a video commentary from "Bianca", and a segment of "Jesus Camp", by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady)
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