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NAR and Dominionism Have Been a Concern of Conservative Christian Groups for Many Years
As I stated in a previous article, C. Peter Wagner has attacked the secular press for negative coverage of the movement, but many of his recent responses were clearly replies to the critiques of other conservative Christians. Following are some of these critiques. 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 video at right is produced by Sandy Simpson and the Apologetics Coordination Team. Read an overview at this website.
Apologetics Index on the NAR
Herescope
Assemblies of God
Lausanne Movement
Spiritual Mapping in the United States and Argentina, 1989 - 2005, by René Holvast (2009)
The Road to Holocaust: Unchecked the Dominion Theology movement among Christians could lead us - and Israel- to disaster
Seek God
Herescope has posts on Manifest Sons of God theology and numerous other issues concerning the NAR.
Herescope 2002 post on "Geographical Heresies of the New Apostolic Reformation"
Herescope post on Rick Perry's The Response
Discernment-Ministries, Inc.
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."
Orrel Steinkamp in Critical Issues Commentary in 2001 Counterfeit Revival by Hank Hanegraaff, 1997
Christian Research Institute
Critique of "Covering Theology"
Strategic Level Spiritual Warfare: A Modern Mythology
Websites Debunking the Transformations Movies
Brannon Howse and Worldview Weekend 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.
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.
This is the accompanying January 20, 1990 audio of Gruen titled, "Do We Keep Smiling and Say Nothing?"
Christian Research Journal on the controversy over the Kansas City Prophets
Slaughter of the Sheep blog on "The Dominon Mandate"
Charismatic Chaos, by John MacArthur (1993)
Catholic Reason
Churchmouse Campanologist on C. Peter Wagner
Doctrine of Demons, by Tricia Tillin
Eastern Regional Watch
Bene Diction Blogs On - Canada
Antipas Ministries
The Berean Call
A Review of C. Peter Wagner's Confronting the Powers, by John F. Hart, Moody Bible Institute, 1997
The Third Wave Worldview: A Biblical Critique
In Plain Site
SO4J
Pastoral Care Ministries Videos:
Critical Issues Commentary
Andrew Strom's "Kundalini Warning"
Truthseekers
Why Spiritual Warfare Does Not Deliver
The Shocking History of Spiritual Warfare [More links will be added periodically.]
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The posts on the NAR at www.deceptioninthechurch.com go back at least as far as 1998. 
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