[TBC: We have written in past newsletter of what is called “The New Spiritual Warfare Strategies.” http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5807 , http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5818 , http://www.thebereancall.org/node/5819 .]
Individuals such as Rick Joyner and C. Peter Wagner have promoted these teachings for several decades. What, according to their own assessment, has been the result?
In 2009, C. Peter Wagner reported, “The question now arises, How effective have our efforts been since the cultural mandate joined the evangelistic mandate on our agendas?
But how about the cultural mandate? Since 1990, as I have explained, city transformation has been high on our priority lists. That, as I write this, was 15 years ago. Our best top-level Christian leadership has been involved with this in city after city across America. God has been providing incredible new tools for getting the job done--tools such as identificational repentance; spiritual mapping; strategic prophetic prayer; massive all-night, stadium prayer events; strategic-level spiritual warfare; prayer journeys; pastoral unity; and the concept of the church of the city. In addition, Bill Bright, Elmer Towns and others made fasting popular, and I would guess that somewhere around half of American evangelical pastors have now experienced 40-day fasts.
However, we cannot point to a single city in America that has been transformed in all of those 15 years! ( Discerning the Times, Part 27. Week 17, 2009. http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000048389/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Word_for_the/2009/Discerning_the_Times.aspx ).
