“Joseph Mattera’s, The Global Apostolic Movement and the Progress of the Gospel, is a helpful addition to the knowledge regarding the Apostolic Network movements. I found great wisdom, insight, and clarification on important issues related to the Apostolic movement. There was lots of gold in the footnotes and in the bibliography. So many questions are addressed in the work and there is a lot of insight and wisdom. One difference I have with the author would be the following two sentences. “One valuable resource that I recommend is a book written by two solid Christian scholars, R. Douglas Geivett and Holly Pivec. The helpful book, A New Apostolic Reformation gives honest and scholarly insights into the high-profile NAR leaders, while examining their teachings.”
“I intend in the future to publish a book that disagrees sharply with the conclusions of Geivett and Pivec. I did not find their book to be helpful, instead found it to be misrepresentative in some aspects and not scholarly insights into some NAR leaders which they named, myself included, who they did not interview to make sure they were reflecting accurately their positions.
“But this endorsement is for Mattera, not Geivett and Pivec so I will return to The Global Apostolic Movement and the Progress of the Gospel, overall, I liked Mattera and have found him in personal conversation to have a lot of wisdom and insight into the apostolic movement. I appreciate his humility and his language addressing the difference between office and function or office and gift. I believe his book will be helpful for those desiring to learn more about the apostolic movement. I enjoyed reading it and recommend it.”
-Randy Clark, leader of the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening, president of the Global Awakening Theological Seminary, author of Intimacy with God and forty-seven other books.