What is the New Apostolic Reformation?
Discerning Authority, Leadership, and Truth in Modern Christianity
How do we recognize healthy spiritual leadership—and what happens when authority begins to drift from its biblical foundation?
In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, Amelia Walden joins me again for a deeper discussion on the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the questions it raises about spiritual authority, leadership structures, and discernment within the Church.
This conversation isn’t about assigning motives or attacking individuals. It’s about examining ideas carefully and returning to Scripture as our measuring stick. Together, we reflect on how teachings around modern apostles and prophets, spiritual hierarchy, and signs and wonders can shape faith communities—and why believers are called to test what they hear rather than accept it uncritically.
Throughout the episode, we wrestle with important questions many Christians are already asking:
• How does Scripture define spiritual authority and leadership?
• Where is the line between spiritual influence and spiritual control?
• How do we discern truth without being driven by emotion or celebrity voices?
This episode invites listeners to slow down, stay grounded in God’s Word, and keep Jesus—not experiences, personalities, or movements—at the center of faith.
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Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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