Ken Sumrall and Church Foundational Network: A Modern-Day Apostolic Movement
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Overview
This is the first extensive examination of the life of Ken Sumrall and his firm belief in the modern-day apostolic restoration movement. It presents Sumrall’s journey from his Baptist beginnings, through his experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, through his learning struggles with Liberty Fellowship of Churches and Ministers, and into his birthing of Church Foundational Network. It represents Sumrall in his own light, while dealing with his paradigm changes concerning church government the heart of which revolved around the restoration of modern-day apostles. Godly government was grounded in godly relationships with one’s apostle, whom Sumrall understood as a “spiritual father.” For Sumrall, the best biblical government for the New Testament church today is a theocracy. Instead of a centralized, hierarchical church government, Sumrall advanced a decentralized network of churches connected relationally.
This volume contains the major influences upon Sumrall’s thinking and the progress of his comprehension of the life of the church as “family.” Moreover, it engages some of the apprehensions that have surfaced over the present-day apostolic movement and provides insights of the direction and survivability of the movement.
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”Terry Shiver’s book on Sumrall and the apostolic restoration movement is a valuable record of the Liberty Fellowship and later Church Foundational Network, both founded by Sumrall. As a longtime follower of Sumrall, Shiver writes as an insider with special insights into both the successes and failures of the movement. Well researched and written, Ken Sumrall and the Church Foundational Network adds much to current discussions on the modern and controversial apostolic restoration movement."
--Vinson Synan, Dean Emeritus, Regent University School of Divinity
“Terry Shiver has produced an original case study of Ken Sumrall and his Church Foundational Network, an association of charismatic churches. Shiver’s research provides a window through which to observe and understand the theological and sociological dynamics that govern not only Sumrall’s network but also a good number of similar associations of nondenominational churches in which power resides in the personal influence and unilateral decision-making prerogatives of an apostolic leader."
--Eric N. Newberg, Professor of Theological and Historical Studies, Oral Roberts University, author of The Pentecostal Mission in Palestine (Pickwick, 2012)
Product Details
- Title : Ken Sumrall and Church Foundational Network: A Modern-Day Apostolic Movement
- Author: Shiver, Terry D.
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Publication Date: 2015
- ISBN: 9781498221566
Terry Shiver is the senior leader for Christ Community Church. He is Founder/President of Kingdom Equipping Ministries, a parachurch ministry for equipping and activating the saints. He has an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and a PhD from Regent University in renewal studies with an emphasis in church history. He is married to Nancy Shiver, and they have five boys. They live in Lake City, Florida.