I’ve had interesting experiences with the prosperity gospel. I’ve met some very generous people who loved Jesus more than anything and also believed in the prosperity message of the Bible. My concern comes from a lot of the radical prosperity teachings that occur. The prosperity gospel has a pretty good following in the ATL and I met a lot of people that attended those kinds of church. I was always frustrated, angry, and grieved after meeting with most of those people though. There emphasis was clearly on money and not Jesus. They measured there worth in dollars and cents and not an identity in Christ. Many of them, then, based how much God loved them on how much He blessed them. If they were having hard times, they must be living in sin, if it was good times, they must be doing well. Many of these people also weren’t dealing with mindsets. Still living in poverty and expecting God to bless them with wealth while not growing in principles of stewardship, etc…
I’ve then watched as the pastors of these congregations take up lofty offerings to accomplish lofty goals from their impoverished congregations while if they would just sell 1 of there 5+ $100,000+ automobiles could accomplish these goals immediately. It just seems to me like there’s a huge disparity between these teachings and the way that Jesus lived here on the earth.
Anyway, take a gander at these videos below and then let me hear your thoughts…
P.S. – more blogs to come. We haven’t had internet for a bit and I’ve had a lot swirling around in my head as well as fun NYC experiences that we’ve had so far. BUT, yesterday, we finally got internet, so, it’s good to be back in the real virtual world!
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