Prosperity Lunch!

I went to lunch with a friend today at an Arabic resturant in Minneapolis. Out of all of the seats in the resturant I picked the seat next to two guys who ended up discussing how the prosperity movement is misunderstood, in a Arabic resturant.
I was honestly dumbfounded as I tried to carry on my conversation, yet continued to overhear theirs. I typically don't easedrop.
Nonetheless I thought it would be good to repost this recent article from the BBC star. It is a great help to me to help me not get distracted by the "cares of the world".


...'To attract people with promises of prosperity is simply natural. It is not the message of Jesus. It is not what he died to achieve".


"What is it about Christians that makes them the salt of the earth and the light of the world? It is not wealth. The desire for wealth and the pursuit of wealth tastes and looks just like the world. It does not offer the world anything different from what it already believes in. The great tragedy of prosperity-preaching is that a person does not have to be spiritually awakened in order to embrace it; one needs only to be greedy"

This is written to pastors, but is so relevant for us all.

Click here for the entire article Prosperity Preaching: Deceitful and Deadly.
Here are his main exhortations:
Don’t develop a philosophy of ministry that makes it harder for people to get into heaven.
Do not develop a philosophy of ministry that kindles suicidal desires in people.
Do not develop a philosophy of ministry that encourages vulnerability to moth and rust.
Don’t develop a philosophy of ministry that makes hard work a means of amassing wealth.
Don’t develop a philosophy of ministry that promotes less faith in the promises of God to be for us what money can’t be.
Don’t develop a philosophy of ministry that contributes to your people being choked to death.
Don’t develop a philosophy of ministry that takes the seasoning out of the salt and puts the light under a basket.