#302 The Dangerous Theology of Bethel Redding, with Brandon Kimber
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Brandon Kimber, director of the American Gospel movies joins the podcast to talk about the theology of The New Apostolic Reformation, particularly as it is taught at Bethel Church in Redding, California. We discuss the leadership structure of NAR, and its view of prayer, atonement, politics, and eschatology.
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| 0:00.0 | What both the progressive movement and NAR have in common is they're both talking about the heaven on earth type of thing. |
| 0:09.0 | That looks different in both movements. |
| 0:11.1 | Like in progressive Christianity, it's kind of the social justice type of thing. |
| 0:15.5 | In this movement, it's more like the miracles and health and wealth. |
| 0:20.4 | That's bringing heaven to earth. |
| 0:31.2 | Well, hey, everyone. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm Elisa Childers. |
| 0:34.1 | This is the Elisa Childers podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | And it's our goal here to equip Christians |
| 0:38.0 | to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim |
| 0:43.0 | the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth. And I'm very excited to bring you this episode today |
| 0:47.5 | because we're going to be talking about the theology of Bethel Redding. I mentioned a couple of |
| 0:53.0 | weeks back a resource that I recommended to all of my |
| 0:56.6 | audience, and I want to recommend that again today, and that is the docu-series American Gospel, |
| 1:02.5 | Spirit, and Fire. Maybe some of you are familiar with the first American gospel movie that |
| 1:07.7 | dealt with the prosperity gospel, and it's called In Christ Alone. The second |
| 1:12.2 | documentary in the American gospel series was called Christ Crucified, and that featured my story, |
| 1:17.7 | where I shared about my faith being undermined by a progressive Christian pastor. Many |
| 1:22.7 | of you actually found this podcast through that documentary, and that dealt more with the progressive Christian |
| 1:29.0 | view of the gospel. And the whole heart behind the American gospel series is to highlight |
| 1:33.7 | and analyze different gospels that have started here in America that we have exported to |
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