At the suggestion of my Beautiful Wife Shakia, I will finish my thoughts on the Prosperity Gospel and add thoughts on what prosperity is. Thanks Kia. The fact of the matter is the Word of Faith/Prosperity movement when compared to the bible is a very new movement (Started by EW Kenyon, and elaborated upon by Kenneth Hagin) Was started in 1949, was after the bible was already established and believed upon for centuries. The Word of Faith movement does come into opposition with key historical doctrines of the Christian Faith(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology#Belief_and_critique) which brings to mind Paul letter to the Galatians I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. v.1:6-7 The Prosperity Gospel (As it is preached by Dollar,Olsteen, Meyer) was not preached by Jesus, The Apostles or other notable men of the faith like Spurgeon, Wesley, Calvin, Luther. But they preached another Prosperity, that those that take up the Lord Jesus Christ will not see their Prosperity on earth (not because we have taken some stupid religious vow of poverty, but because the name of Jesus is such a scandal to this world that we will lose opportunities when we exalt Jesus in this world instead of trying to be politically correct, not in a condemnatory way but with love(but we live in a time that even when we speak the truth in love it is perceived as condemning because we testify that what the world does is wrong. {I'm sure you would agree that the American church has lost much of it's bite for the sake of political Correctness} so that they will see our works and praise Jesus for it.) but our prosperity will come in the next life where it will not fade or rot or burn in the fire, because if you consume yourself with the riches of this world (by that I mean excess, not necessity. May God show us all what is truly necessary) then you have your reward. The world is not enough, I pray that I can live as the Apostles lived; not with attendants and fan fare, but bearing the suffering of Christ in my physical body so that all praise may go to him, and that my reward may be full. Although the Prosperity movement has been very philanthropic in it's doings, setting up programs to help the poor and to assist Children in school, and setting up a computer labs and all of these great things that they do that in God's eyes are as bloody tampons Isaiah 64:6 or dung Phil.3:8. Unfortunately they are not preaching the one thing that Christ charged us to preach. instead of preaching the true biblical Gospel that strips away all of man's self reliance causing them to depend on Christ for everything. They give us a truncated gospel where Jesus becomes Santa Claus instead of Lord, and he only becomes Lord when we accept him as such. That is no Gospel.
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