SBC president slated to speak at major NAR event tonight

I was disappointed to learn that the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ronnie Floyd, agreed to be a keynote speaker at the International House of Prayer's annual youth conference in Kansas City, Missouri, which kicked off today. See Onething 2015. Floyd is scheduled to speak tonight, sharing a platform with IHOP founder, Mike Bickle.Sadly, Floyd's appearance at this event will be seen by many evangelicals as an endorsement of IHOP and Mikle Bickle-- and they will be drawn into IHOP's New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) teachings.Floyd joins a growing list of mainstream evangelical leaders who have accepted invitations to speak at IHOP--one of the main distributors of the global NAR ideology. (The other is Bethel Church, in Redding, Calif.). Popular evangelical pastor and author Francis Chan is also scheduled to speak at the conference on Wednesday morning. This will be Chan's second year speaking at IHOP.Make no mistake: Floyd's appearance at IHOP will be touted by Bickle and other NAR leaders to lend credibility to their movement of self-declared apostles and prophets--a movement that has brought destruction and division to the lives of countless individuals, families, and churches. And warning people about the dangers of this movement will have become more difficult. After all, if the Southern Baptists are OK with the NAR--a theologically conservative bunch--then what could be so bad about it it? (or so people will say).To learn more about the harmful teachings and practices of the New Apostolic Reformation, see my two co-authored books on this topic: God's Super-Apostles (a beginner's introduction to the movement) and  A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement (a deeper examination of NAR claims with detailed exposition of Scripture and careful reasoning).