The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is a dominionist movement which asserts that God is restoring the lost offices of church governance, namely the offices of Prophet and Apostle.Leading false teachers in this seemingly loosely organized movement claim that these prophets and apostles alone have the power and authority to execute God’s plans and purposes on earth.
They believe they are laying the foundation for a global church touching seven major areas of society (known as the Seven Mountain Mandate). They also believe that it will be governed by them.
They place a greater emphasis on the experiential, like dreams, visions and extra-biblical revelation, and use a narcigesis approach to the Bible. The Passion Translation is not a translation but it is so loose it supports a low view of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit and promotes existential theology where it allows the opening up of new revealed teachings (classified by NAR teachers as special revelation) and reported “experiences” (e.g. trips to heaven, face-to-face conversations with Jesus, visits by angels).
Friends these cannot be proven by Scripture and those who pursue these things do so in a way that resembles many new age practices and occultism. Allow me to finish this definition with a word from John MacArthur.
“…NAR, the New Apostolic Reformation. … It is like Grape Nuts – it’s not grapes and it’s not nuts. It’s like Christian Science – it’s not Christian and it’s not scientific. Well, the New Apostolic Reformation isn’t new, it isn’t apostolic, and it isn’t a reformation. But it is a rapidly expanding movement being generated by some of the same old troubling false teachers and false leaders that have been around in Charismania for decades, always dishonoring the Holy Spirit, always dishonoring the Scripture, always claiming miracle signs, wonders, visions, dreams.” ~ John MacArthur
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