It's Friday, January 30th.

I'm Tara Jean-Stevens.

And here is this week's biggest headline from the Heaven Bent Universe.

A Season of Reckoning for New Apostolic Reformation.

A two-week-old video expose by influencer and apologist Mike Winger continues to reverberate

through what we know as NAR. That's the powerful movement of modern day apostles

and prophets that we cover on this pod. This nearly six-hour-long video presented evidence of a

systemic cover-up amongst leaders, accusing them of covering up abuse and misconduct

allegations. And one of the primary leaders who's been put under the gun here is Chris Vallatin.

We know him from season two. And he has a lot of, you know, formal titles, but he is the senior prophet at Bethel Church in Reading.

I have two really, I think, thought-provoking pieces of audio to share with you about this.

Both feature Chris. And I think they paint a really interesting picture of what's been developing over the last couple weeks.

The first one is this message that he preached to his congregation pretty much right after Mike Winger's video was released.

And everybody in this movement was talking about it.

I have a unique message tonight.

I don't know ever preach a message like this,

and I may not get all the way through it, we'll see.

But I've been thinking about the complexities of shepherding people in the 21st century

and the different dynamics. And you see, you know,

people all over the internet and social media. There's, you know, lots of people, positive,

negative, and talking about, you know, their experiences with the body of Christ or with leaders

or obviously in the world. There's so much fake news, right? It's all mixed in there, and it's really hard to even trust the story.

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