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evangelists and some to be pastors and teachers to prepare God\u2019s people [...]\u2019(Ephesians 4:11 NIV).\u000AFor Neo-Pentecostals the apostolic ministry and the manifestations of the Spirit should be the mark of all Christians in the twenty-first century. Kay in his book Apostolic Networks in Britain: New ways of being church (2007) analyses in detail the demands of the network of Charismatic churches in England with respect to the apostolic restoration and other gifts experienced by Christians in the first century.\u000ARony Chaves pastor of the \u2018Centro Cristiano\u2019 church in San Jose, Costa Rica not only promotes Wagner\u2019s teachings, but also the idea that these movements prepare the way for the coming of the Kingdom of God. He said \u2018We must unite as never before. Only as the \u2018apostolic network\u2019 is linked up can we bring in the Government of God with power in these last days\u2019.61 This posture shows an eschatological paradigm change. The Kingdom of God is interpreted as a present reality which some pastors equate with economic liberalism, based on the assumption of the point of view of the theology of power and North American recontruccionism. In other words, it has to do with the idea of applying Old Testament biblical principals literally to the different situations of the social activity including the taking political power. Other pastors and analysts of the Neo-Pentecostal phenomena question the anointing practices and the pretension of representing the first century church. For, example, N\u00FA\u00F1ez criticises specifically the apostolic authority which this apostolic reform pretends to establish (2001:28). Neo-Pentecostal pastors also are criticized for not giving due importance to the work of the Holy Spirit in the history of Protestantism from the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century until now. This might indicate that the\u000A61In his messages the theme of the apostolic reform has a central position. See the movements he leads in his website \u2018Ap\u00F3stol Rony Chaves\u2019 Available at htpp://www.ronychaves.org/srch2/index.aspx\u000AAccessed 121.01.08. Some critics such as pastor Miguel Rosell and Pablo Caballero refute the ideas of the apostolic reform which Rony Chaves proposes. See documents in \u2018Rony Chavez\u2019 available at http://www.salvacioneterna.com/rony_chaves.htm Accessed 12.01.08\u000A 104\u000A