BILL JOHNSON & NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION

Is there a connection with Bill Johnson & New Apostolic Reformation?

The New Apostolic Reformation teaching is wildly popular today. One academic estimated that 66 million have come into “significant contact” with NAR teaching in the United States.¹ It is said to be promoted by Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television, GOD TV, Charisma magazine, International House of Prayer (IHOP)²and Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

Popular leaders are said to be Bill Johnson (Bethel Church, Redding, CA), Mike Bickle,³ Randy Clark, Todd Bentley, Bill Hamon and the late Fuller Seminary professor C. Peter Wager. NAR is credited for the recent spread of Christianity throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America.⁴ It is one of the fastest growing groups within the church and will soon overtake the category of “protestants.”⁵ It is hoped from within to be a movement as radical as the Protestant Reformation itself.⁶

However, the New Apostolic Reformation can be characterized by six beliefs and practices that are unbiblical and should be avoided along with the movement itself.

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1. R Douglas Geivett, A New Apostolic Reformation? A Biblical Response to the Worldwide Movement (Wooster: Weaver Book Company, 2014), 12.
2. Strong NAR teachers like Rick Joyner and Bill Johnson are featured at IHOP.
3. See info on Mike Bickle & New Apostolic Reformation.
4. Geivett, A New Apostolic Reformation, 9.
5. Ibid.
6. C Peter Wagner, ed., The New Apostolic Churches (Ventura, CA: Regal, 1998), 6.