What this all boils down to is that the Church can't make up its mind!  Why?  Because liberals, liars, low-lifes, losers and lunatics have infiltrated Christendom and made it one unholy mess!  Is it any wonder that the younger generation want nothing to do with organized religion?  Who can blame them!
 
Progressives would have us believe that Jesus is not divine and there was no resurrection.  Scripture was written by men, not by Divine inspiration, the Bible is a book of myths and fables, full of contradictions, open to interpretation, holds hidden meanings only the "enlightened" know about. God loves, doesn't judge, hence no Hell. And heaven's for all! Triniterianism is out, modalism is in.  Sodomy? No sin there!  Fornication and cohabitation?  Who cares!  Abortion?  My choice! 
 
Pretty much everything is acceptable in our post-modern church, including outright heresy.  Take for example Pastor Rick Joyner's 1988 "vision" on the coming "revolution" in the Church,

"What is about to come upon the earth is not just a revival, or another awakening; it is a veritable revolution. The vision was given in order to begin to awaken those who are destined to radically change the course, and even the very definition of Christianity. The dismantling of organizations and disbanding of some works will be a positive and exhilarating experience for the Lord's faithful servants. A great company of prophets, teachers, pastors and apostles will be raised up with the spirit of Phineas… it will be said of the apostles soon to be anointed that they have turned an upside down world right side up. Nations will tremble at the mention of their name." (Emphasis added.) [2]

Have I missed something?  I can't think of a single nation that trembles at the name of any of Rick Joyner's so-called apostles. (More on them later.)  Joyner's alleged prophecy came to him almost 20 years ago.  He claimed that the "soon to be" anointed would turn an upside world right side up.  Well, what's the hold up?  With the way things are going in this country, I'm eager for the "great company" to turn things right side up.
 
NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION 
Add to the list of church movements the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), also called the Latter Rain movement, which emerged in 1948.  The current leader of NAR is C. Peter Wagner.  Wagner is one of the leading authorities on the church growth movement and has been studying the field of church growth for over 30 years.  C. Peter Wagner is the "presiding apostle" in the International Coalition of Apostles.

"C. Peter Wagner is attempting to will into existence what he calls a "New Apostolic Reformation". He tells us in a book he has edited called "The New Apostolic Churches" of the struggle he had with naming his new reformation." [3]

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