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Forum: Theological Expressions
Date: 2001, Aug 13
From: Bernard Soh Bernard

Have you heard of Global Harvest Ministries and its founder, church-growth specialist C. Peter Wagner? Do you know how it has change our course for the past siz years? Here is a little write-up on C. Peter Wagner:
C. Peter Wagner is a kingpin in both the Apostolic movement and the Global Church and Evangelization Movement. Born in 1930, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary which has been the cradle of the Global Church. Wagner then started his ministry as a conservative Christian, and his interest in Church Growth began in the 1970's. He joined the staff of Fuller Seminary in 1971 and became Professor of World Mission. Wager is the mentor of Dr. Ralph D. Winter, founder of the US Center for World Mission in Pasadena, CA. This enormous Campus is home to an inconceivable number of ministries and organisations, all networking together for World Mission. It could be called the Vatican City of the World Evangelization Movement.
Wagner joined the Lausanne Committee in 1974 and worked for world evangelization, but during the 1980's he met John Wimber, and was won over to signs and wonders and the charismatic revival. He coined the phrase "third wave" to describe the entrance of the signs and wonders phenomenon into the conservative, evangelical churches. Since that time he has moved steadily towards latter-rain/ sonship doctrines, frequently conferencing with the hardcore prophets of that movement like Paul Cain, Bill Hamon and Rick Joyner, as well as key leaders in the Toronto/Brownsville revival.
Now Peter Wagner is hailed as an "Apostle" of the first water within the apostolic/prophetic movement.
The admiration is mutual. Wagner strongly endorsed Bill Hamon's book on 'Apostles, Prophets and the Coming Moves of God: God’s End-Time Plans for His Church and Planet Earth.' He even wrote the foreword. There he says that Bill Hamon was influential in nurturing him through what he calls a "paradigm shift from traditional Christianity to an openness to the full ministry of the Holy Spirit." He also believes that Bill Hamon is at the "cutting edge" of what he calls "The New Apostolic Reformation."
If interested, let's discuss how far we know about these group of people and their influence on us.

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