Prosperity Teacher Get's it Right

So most of you that know me know that I am passionate about the"prosperity movement", also known as Word of Faith teaching. I have seen some amazing abuses of scripture and people close to me been hurt by some of these faith in your own faith teachers. It's hard to not be weirded out when a worship leader instructs you to close your eyes, lift your hands to receive and sing a song where the chorus is "Money's coming, Money's...Money's a comin', over and over again. Needless to say by God's grace I had been working with street kids in Mexico City and when I came back a friend invited me to church with her. That was my first experience with this theology face to face. It's hard to think the same about abundance and excessivness (Rolex's Mercedes Benz's,Million Dollar condos, Airplanes, & GOLD, GOLD, GOLD!!!) when you've just witnessed street kids starving. I am thankful to God's grace as I too could have easily been lead down this road. It sounds nice, and I love cars, and I love idols that give me immediate pleasure & fame.

Any how most of you all know this and by now your bored..., I'm getting to it here...I do though love missions because it is so outside yourself, and it is so impossibly hard that you must trust God like you just don't otherwise have to.

Missions changes my life, God used it to save me, and awakend me to something outside myself, a treasure that will never fail: Christ.

Anyways I was so glad to see this article "The Unreached People of the 10/40 Window "by Lynn Hammond, wife of Pastor Mac Hammond of Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Center MN.

I read an amazing article by her tonight and it sounded more like a US Center for World Mission letter than anything prosperity.

Here's an excerpt ..."It shocked me when I first heard only five cents out of every one hundred dollars spent on world missions goes to this desperately needy area of the world. Although Satan seems to have established a territorial stronghold here, we as Christians have a responsibility to not concede any nation or region of the world, not even one person."

You see I have heard many prosperity teachers talk missions but this is different, it's got substance behind it.

It's a theology of the unreached and a call to react and it's Biblical based.

I found it to be an excellent article.

I pray that God will use people like Lynn Hammond to start the wildfire among the prosperity people that it is more blessed (abundant) to give than to receive, and that God himself will stir their hearts to give themselves to the unreached for His great Renown or to free up their cash to spread instead of keep.

Great article Mrs. Hammond. I was delighted to read it.

Let me know what you think about the article and the impact this may have on the WoF movement.

By the way the girl in the photo...she's Iraqi, and she is one of the unreached. She needs the Gospel. What will we do with our Faith?