One of my Hillsong friends says that God wants to bless us. He’s right. And the greatest blessing is Himself! Knowing God is the greatest possible blessing, bought for us at great cost to himself.
Why, then, would God ‘bless’ us with anything that prevents us coming to him? That’s no blessing at all! The people in the first video love the blessings of God rather than God himself, and thus they forfeit the true and greatest blessing.
That’s why I hate the prosperity gospel.
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Well obviously you aren’t blessed enough to realise how awesome ‘glorious material wealth’ is.
I love Driscoll’s quote on the health and wealth gospel:
“If you have enough faith, you won’t be like Jesus”
hahaha yeah!
He said something like that in the spiritual gifts series. “If you have enough faith, God will heal you… you’re not healed? then you don’t have enough faith… Paul didn’t get healed either? Paul didn’t have enough faith.
Paul didn’t have enough faith??? He wrote half the New Testament!!
As Tim Keller says:
“Weak faith in a strong object is infinitely better than strong faith in a weak object.”
Praise Jesus we don’t have to rely on our own faith!
Not just Tim!
Thanks so much for speaking out about the prosperity theology that is still so very prevalent in our christian community. I suspect that those drawn into accepting that theology may also unwittingly perceive faith as a kind of insurance policy against life’s hardships. Maybe that’s something that needs addressing at evangelistic appeals/ altar calls.
Absolutely! Thanks for the comment – you’ve inspired a new post – keep an eye out.