Dutch Sheets is a major leader in the movement coalescing within born-again charismatic Christianity known as the New Apostolic Reformation. The NAR is the dominant tendency in Gingrich's Faith Leaders Coalition. The New Apostolic Reformation was covered in two full WHYY NPR Fresh Air segments, hosted by Terry Gross, aired in August and October 2011.

The NAR's sprawling national and state-level prayer networks serve as hubs for political organizing, and while NAR doctrine is heavily infused with the need to combat demons, the movement also advances a radical form of theocratic libertarianism. NAR leaders are currently distributing, in California, prayer guides that attack unions.

NAR politics skews toward the Tea Party spectrum, and is infused with paranoid anti-communist conspiracy theory. One of the NAR political ventures, the Oak Initiative, has promoted the claim that the Obama Administration's health care reform legislation contained a provision for the creation of a left-wing constabulary force like the Nazi brownshirts. The Oak Initiative (see link, above) heavily demonizes Islam.  

While the other NAR-associated leaders in the Gingrich Faith Coalition - notably George Barna and Jim Garlow - (Barna especially) have crafted lower-key public personas, Dutch Sheets is a firebrand within the NAR movement who serves as a "spiritual father" to one of the most virulently antigay pastors associated with the NAR, Damon Thompson, and has touted a form of faith healing in which pastors physically assault, onstage, advanced-stage cancer patients. Sheets also maintains that Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Notable aspects of the NAR teaching include the doctrine that believers should destroy or neutralize, by burning, smashing, or flushing down toilets, objects deemed to be unholy, including profane books and "idolatrous" religious texts (such as Books of Mormon), religious relics (such as statues of Catholic saints, the Buddha, or Hindu gods), and native art (such as African masks, Hopi Indian Kachina dolls, and totem poles.)

While the NAR came to widespread public attention due to Texas governor Rick Perry's August 6th, 2011 The Response prayer event, which was dominated by C. Peter Wagner's apostles and prophets, by November 2011 NAR leaders were beginning to shift their support from Perry to Newt Gingrich - whose alliance with the hard religious right goes back decades.

Dutch Sheets' specific vision, described in his February 2009 podcast, of infecting a million young adults per year with the Seven Mountains ideology and vision, for Christian takeover of society, may not have come to fruition.

But the New Apostolic Reformation relentlessly targets young Americans, including through an ambitious nationwide effort, in which NAR ministries are participating, to establish Christian clubs in public schools throughout America - the subject of a new book by journalist Katherine Stewart, titled The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children.

Stewart can be seen discussing her book, in the video below, during a February 7, 2012 panel discussion hosted by Mark Crispin Miller and held at the McNally Jackson NYC bookstore.

[below: transcript of Dutch Sheets talk, in which he outlines a plan to "infect" one million young Americans per year with the Seven Mountains dominionist agenda.]

"What if I said to you that God has given us a strategy through which we can release a minimum of one million young people a year into different parts of our culture, with an understanding that they are sent there by God to change that part of society?

There's actually been a lot of talk lately about the "Seven Mountains", or pillars of our culture and society, that influence everything else - the Religion Mountain, the family, arts and entertainment, media, education, government, and business. We know that if we can impact each of those mountains and really bring the kingdom of God and its influence there, we can change our culture.

What if I said to you that we can send a million young people into those mountains every year, with a true revelation from God that they are called there, called to be a minister of the Lord there? That's ten million young people over the next ten years. If we could do that, we could change America.

We have that strategy, and we'll be releasing that at the conference this year, of the United States Apostolic Alliance, March 30th through April 2nd.

What if I said to you that we have identified 23 states that, according to Chuck Pierce in the vision he saw, have a righteous root that we can call on, or use, let's say - in other words, that state has something that God has done there that is a root put there by his spirit that can release, or out of it can grow life, etc. - we believe there are 23 of those states. And there are 27 that don't have that righteous root.

What if I said to you that we have a plan to begin to target those 23 states and move them toward awakening and reformation? Well, that doesn't mean we're going to abandon the other 27. We're not about to do that. It just means that we now have a strategy from the Lord of knowing what to do in each state.

You need to know where yours fits in that. You need to know, "Am I one of the 23, with a righteous root? And, if so, this should be our strategy." You need to know, "I'm one of the 27. This needs to be our strategy." You need to know where we feel like we should start. Because I believe there's six, seven, maybe eight states this year that we need to begin to target in a very significant way. We're going to talk about that at the conference this year. I really hope you can join us.

God has also given us a plan that I believe is very critical for where he wants to take us in this awakening and reformation. And that is, the joining of the generations in a more significant way. In fact, I believe God has put on my heart what I'm calling at this point a Reformation Institute.

And I believe - I'm very confident - that God has given us a plan through which we can infect these young people with the understanding that they're called to transform these mountains but then also to begin to prepare them to do that.

It's a web-based institute, it's going to incorporate not only who I am, what God has taught me, but many, many, many ministries that are functioning in our nation today - so that we can awaken these young people to what God is saying to them, put destiny in them, and then move them into the right website - so that they can hear the teaching they need to fulfill these assignments.

We have a plan to do this. I'm actually inviting several who have a voice to this young generation to this year's conference. We're going to try to marry who we are, the forties, fifties, sixty year olds, with this younger generation, and I believe there's a true joining that will take place this year that I think will launch us into the new.  

And, again, my prayer is that you will join us. I believe these strategies will work, I can't implement them without you, it's not going to be enough if you hear about them through the grapevine or secondhand. Come, listen, pray with us, join us, we're going to pray together, we're going to worship together, we're going to have some very long seasons of just worship - waiting in the Lord - seeking his presence.

I believe this will be, for some of us, perhaps the greatest gathering we've ever been a part of. Last year's national conference of USAA, many people told me, was the best they'd ever been a part of. I'm not satisfied with that, I believe this year's can be better. So would you pray about joining us? - Actually, don't pray about it, just come. And I'll see you there. God bless you."