Christianity Today's new July cover story is about the rise and spread of the false teaching of the health-wealth gospel and it's growth in Africa.
Sadly I have found that many Christians here in the West will not look into the roots of this theology and it's history & founders that is rooted in Christian Science and Positive Confession New Age theology.
A theology that makes us not rooted in Christ, but rooted in our idols of health, wealth, cars and houses, all things that will soon pass away.
Most I talk with about the matter accept this teaching with no problem, not wanting to be critical and curse themselves from future prosperity.
Sadly it seems more like Karma than anything Jesus or the Apostle Paul ever taught, yet it is growing by leaps and bounds here and now in Africa.
David Oginde, senior pastor of the 10,000-member Nairobi Pentecostal Church, believes he could triple his membership by promising wealth. "But if that is all I am teaching, then I have lost the message," he says. "The kingdom of God is built on the Cross, not on bread and butter."
Oginde sometimes counsels Christians burned by health-and-wealth preachers. One student "planted" his school money as a seed offering, then was thrown out of college for not paying tuition. "I gave my money to God, but it has not come back," the student said. Oginde replied, gently, "You did not give your money to God."
Oginde warns that unethical preachers turn God's provision into "a sweepstakes," "distorting a good thing."
Oginde sometimes counsels Christians burned by health-and-wealth preachers. One student "planted" his school money as a seed offering, then was thrown out of college for not paying tuition. "I gave my money to God, but it has not come back," the student said. Oginde replied, gently, "You did not give your money to God."
Oginde warns that unethical preachers turn God's provision into "a sweepstakes," "distorting a good thing."
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