C. PETER WAGNER'S PASSING:
ED STETZER HONORS NAR HERETIC, NEO-MONTANIST & CHURCH GROWTH CHARLATAN
BY RICHARD HAAS
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2016/10/23/ed-stetzer-honors-nar-heretic-neo-montanist-and-church-growth-charlatan-c-peter-wagners-passing/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Just recently on Friday, October 21st at 2:30 pm false apostolic teacher C. Peter Wagner passed into eternity. One of Wagner’s best friends, “apostle” Chuck Pierce, confirmed Wagner’s death on his Facebook page Friday. In honor of Wagner’s death, longtime friend Ed Stetzer wrote an article at Christianity Today entitled “C. Peter Wagner (1930-2016), Some Thoughts on His Life and Passing” highlighting their friendship. While death can be a sad occasion for those here on earth as they face the lose a close friend, family member or leader. It is an even more woeful thought that the one who died, C. Peter Wagner, is spending eternity in hell. Even more disheartening is that a prominent face in evangelicalism, Ed Stetzer is leading many astray and right into the welcoming arms of the debaucherous neo-evangelical movement by honoring Wagner’s death. Stetzer is essentially aiding in leading people to the same false christ that Wagner worshiped by paying tribute to Wagner’s death. The death of Wagner should not be celebrated, but be used as a lesson to show where false teaching leads — to hell.
Is it harsh or judgmental to say that C. Peter Wagner has not passed into glory as Charisma News,and others would lead us to believe? No, it is not judgmental or insensitive to speak the truth. Many may criticize me or Pulpit & Pen for striking while the proverbial iron is still hot, but there is no better time in which to speak truth. Truth is not a respecter of time, emotions, people’s states of mind or what the public deems as proper etiquette. Truth only knows one thing–that it must be proclaimed. As Christians, apologists of the faith once delivered, and polemicists, we must be ready always to speak the truth; no matter the minute, the hour, or the day the truth must go forth. From where do we gather our truth? We receive our final authority, our truth, on all matters from the sufficiency of the closed canon of Scripture — God’s Word.
The biblical truth is that C. Peter Wagner is not in “Glory” today, unless he repented last moment of his false teachings and heresy, putting his faith in the Christ of the Bible and not the one of his choosing. Yes, that is correct. Wagner worshiped a different Jesus, not the one of the Bible. Wagner praised the “christ” of the NAR, the “christ” of extrabiblical revelation, the “christ” of modern day Montanism–a different “christ” altogether.
Wagner is often referred to as the grandfather of NAR movement. It was Wagner that invented the term “New Apostolic Reformation” and then charged himself as God’s appointed leader of this new extrabiblical organization. It is through Wagner and his promotion of the heresy of Modern Montanism that the Charismatic window of heresy was slid open, mainstreaming it into today’s neo-evangelical landscape. Wagner had far-reaching influence on outer fringe sub-Christian sects that support such false teachings Dominionism; The 7 Mountain Mandate; Third Wave Revivalism. Wagner’s teachings had power over groups like The Latter Rain Movement; Joel’s Army; IHOP; Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church, The Hillsong Media Empire. In Wagner’s later years he became the patriarch of the heretical Church Growth Movement. It is due in large part to Wagner that many of these outliers and skeptical groups are now part mainstream Christianity which form this quasi-evangelical movement we see today.
If you are reading this and happen to follow any of the teachers or listen to any of the teachings from these unorthodox groups, you need to repent of your sins against a holy thrice God and put your faith in the biblical Christ. As for those who claim the title of “Evangelical leadership” or to be a” missiologist” such as Ed Stetzer, you need to repent and stop promoting false teachers like C. Peter Wagner as a biblical viable Christian option to those in Christianity under your authority. It is these attempts to legitimatize heretics such as C. Peter Wagner that not only bring shame to the body of true believers but also will bring God’s holy wrath on those who promote them. For it is through the Gospel that God has provided a way of salvation for men. Through the gift of His son to the world, by repentance of sin and faith in the Christ of the Bible that one will enter into the Glorious eternity with the Father. It is not through the promotion of sub-Christian chicanery like that of the teachings of C. Peter Wager one enters eternity with a Holy and Righteous God.
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NAR pioneer and chief theologian C. Peter Wagner dies
BY HOLLY PIVEC
SEE: http://www.spiritoferror.org/2016/10/nar-pioneer-and-chief-theologian-c-peter-wagner-dies/6489; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
C. Peter Wagner, one of the most influential leaders in the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR),died Friday at age 86. Many people who are part of the global NAR movement have been deeply influenced by Wagner without knowing it. In short, he did the heavy lifting theologically for the movement.
Wagner was a professor of church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he taught for 30 years (1971 to 2001). He first coined the term “New Apostolic Reformation” to refer to the growing number of churches in the 1990s that started to accept the idea of present-day apostles. He wrote six books on the topic of apostles. He was the presiding leader over the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders during its formative years, from 2001 to 2010.
Not all NAR leaders worked directly with Wagner or even agreed with all his teachings. Even so, there is significant overlap between the teachings of many NARleaders and those of Wagner. To understand NAR, one must understand Wagner’s views.
Though Wagner is gone, his influence on the NAR movement is lasting as the baton of NAR teachings is carried on by others, including Bill Johnson, senior pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, California., and Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri.
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“APOSTLE” C. PETER WAGNER DIES (Friday Church News Notes, November 4, 2016, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) -
SEE: http://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/17_44.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
C. Peter Wagner, a church growth guru who accepted the mantle of an apostle in the last decades of his life, passed away on October 21. Wagner was a missionary to Bolivia for 16 years and a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary from 1971-1999. While at Fuller, Wagner moved into the charismatic movement under the influence of John Wimber and became increasingly deceived to the end of his life. They jointly taught an influential course in the early 1980s called “Signs, Wonders and Church Growth,” promoting the use of “miracles” to make evangelism effectual. Wagner coined the term “Third Wave” to describe evangelicals who accept charismatic sign gifts and phenomena but do want to be known as charismatics. (The first wave was classical Pentecostalism, and the second was the charismatic movement.) Wagner said, “A key part of my own spiritual pilgrimage was my close friendship with John Wimber, which began in the mid-1970’s” (The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit, p. 27). He claimed that Bible-style prophesy was being restored. In a message at Indianapolis ’90, Wagner said, “In 1980, God began speaking to the churches about the resurgence of biblical prophecy. ... I’m talking about Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah kind of prophecy, where God speaks to the churches. ... all these signs, all that the Spirit is saying to the churches, are pointing to the great revival, the capital ‘R’ revival ... children are prophesying, children are laying hands on the sick and they’re getting healed” (from notes taken at the conference by D. Cloud). Wagner claimed that he was healed of frequent headaches after John Wimber told him it was a “demon of headache” and that he had to “treat it like a cat on the back porch! yell at it and tell it to go away” (Ibid., p. 69). This is the type of nonsense that has so often passed for healing through all “waves” of Pentecostalism. Their sign gifts are nonexistent; their apostles are ridiculous; their tongues are gibberish; and their prophesies are a lie. In the 1990s, Wagner became a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), believing that Christ’s return will be preceded by the restoration of apostles and a great revival of apostolic signs. The “prophetess” Cindy Jacobs proclaimed Wagner an apostle and said the Lord showed her that Wagner was “going to change the face of Christianity ... like what Martin Luther did” (“Mobilizing the Prophetic Office,” National School of the Prophets, May 11, 2000). Wagner wrote many books on these subjects and had a vast heretical influence. We don’t know where Peter Wagner is today, but we do know that he now understands that he is no apostle. I heard Wagner, Wimber, and many other Pentecostal, charismatic, and “Third Wave” heretics speak at conferences in New Orleans ’87, Indianapolis ’90, St. Louis 2000, and elsewhere. For a report on these see Charismatic Confusion, available in print and as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org. For an extensive report on John Wimber, see The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians, also available as a free eBook from Way of Life. And for much more on this subject see The Pentecostal Charismatic Movements, also available from Way of Life.
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“APOSTLE” C. PETER WAGNER DIES (Friday Church News Notes, November 4, 2016, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) -
SEE: http://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/17_44.php; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
C. Peter Wagner, a church growth guru who accepted the mantle of an apostle in the last decades of his life, passed away on October 21. Wagner was a missionary to Bolivia for 16 years and a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary from 1971-1999. While at Fuller, Wagner moved into the charismatic movement under the influence of John Wimber and became increasingly deceived to the end of his life. They jointly taught an influential course in the early 1980s called “Signs, Wonders and Church Growth,” promoting the use of “miracles” to make evangelism effectual. Wagner coined the term “Third Wave” to describe evangelicals who accept charismatic sign gifts and phenomena but do want to be known as charismatics. (The first wave was classical Pentecostalism, and the second was the charismatic movement.) Wagner said, “A key part of my own spiritual pilgrimage was my close friendship with John Wimber, which began in the mid-1970’s” (The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit, p. 27). He claimed that Bible-style prophesy was being restored. In a message at Indianapolis ’90, Wagner said, “In 1980, God began speaking to the churches about the resurgence of biblical prophecy. ... I’m talking about Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah kind of prophecy, where God speaks to the churches. ... all these signs, all that the Spirit is saying to the churches, are pointing to the great revival, the capital ‘R’ revival ... children are prophesying, children are laying hands on the sick and they’re getting healed” (from notes taken at the conference by D. Cloud). Wagner claimed that he was healed of frequent headaches after John Wimber told him it was a “demon of headache” and that he had to “treat it like a cat on the back porch! yell at it and tell it to go away” (Ibid., p. 69). This is the type of nonsense that has so often passed for healing through all “waves” of Pentecostalism. Their sign gifts are nonexistent; their apostles are ridiculous; their tongues are gibberish; and their prophesies are a lie. In the 1990s, Wagner became a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), believing that Christ’s return will be preceded by the restoration of apostles and a great revival of apostolic signs. The “prophetess” Cindy Jacobs proclaimed Wagner an apostle and said the Lord showed her that Wagner was “going to change the face of Christianity ... like what Martin Luther did” (“Mobilizing the Prophetic Office,” National School of the Prophets, May 11, 2000). Wagner wrote many books on these subjects and had a vast heretical influence. We don’t know where Peter Wagner is today, but we do know that he now understands that he is no apostle. I heard Wagner, Wimber, and many other Pentecostal, charismatic, and “Third Wave” heretics speak at conferences in New Orleans ’87, Indianapolis ’90, St. Louis 2000, and elsewhere. For a report on these see Charismatic Confusion, available in print and as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org. For an extensive report on John Wimber, see The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians, also available as a free eBook from Way of Life. And for much more on this subject see The Pentecostal Charismatic Movements, also available from Way of Life.