My wife and I were involved in the inception
of the "prophetic" movement. According to Bill Hamon (more about
him later) God was raising up and going to release thousands of prophets across
America.
It is the belief of those involved in the sub-movement of the
Charismatic Renewal that the Church cannot come into perfection without
the spiritual impartation from God's restored prophets and apostles. It is
important to understand that not everyone in the Renewal believes that
God has restored the function of the prophet and apostle to the Church.
However, the vast majority of charismatic believers do accept the concept
that God has set such people in the Church.
The role of the prophet is not merely that of faithfully
"forth telling" biblical teachings. The prophet is supposed to be in
constant reception of Present Day Truths (PDT) which
are new (fresh) insights and interpretations of the Bible. The prophet not
only hears for a local church, but also for individuals.
It has always fascinated and horrified us to watch to downward
spiral of the Renewal movement. At first men would come to speak at our
former WOF church as "pastors" or maybe "evangelists." When
the "Word" movement was declared over (according to certain
spiritual pundits), these same men came through again, this time as "Prophets." A few years later these
same men came back through this time
as Apostles!
We have personally met and fellowshipped with at least six Prophets and
a host of self-proclaimed Apostles. We've been "prophalied"
over by the best of them. Had many sets of mystically anointed
hands laid on us by all the members of the five-fold ministry (Apostle, Prophet,
Evangelist, Pastor, and Teacher) so we're pretty super-duper mightily mojo'ed
ourselves, so watch out!
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