An Evil of this Present Age
The "Prosperity Gospel" is rife in the United States. The basic idea is that if you "believe" God will grant you all sorts of material wealth. Gallons of the stuff. Preachers of this perverse nonsense abound.
Joe Carter, writing in the Gospel Coalition profiles one of these false gospel sirens.
9 Things You Should Know About Prosperity Gospel Preacher Paula White
Joe Carter
Gospel Coalition
On Tuesday, several evangelical leaders drew criticism for promoting the newest book of Paula White, a prosperity gospel preacher who has repeatedly been accused of teaching heretical doctrines. Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said “you might want to check it out.” Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said to “give it to anyone looking for hope!” Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, declared, “It is powerful. I highly recommend it!” And Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, added, “Paula’s life is an encouragement to so many and I’m sure this book will encourage you.” (It’s unclear whether these men have actually read the book or if they support White’s teachings.)
Here are nine things you should know about Paula White, her influence, and her ministries.
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From the Greater to the Lesser
Preaching Daily to The Soul
We have had occasion recently to think upon one of the more famous passages in the Pauline library: namely Romans 8: 31-39. This is one of those passages which demands it be firmly anchored into its context, lest it be twisted by perverted minds.
The reason why context is so important is the otherwise unqualified, open-ended nature of the initial promise:
Since old-style theological and biblical liberalism has departed to the plains of Moab whence it came, and is left bubbling in the cauldrons of radical pomo agnosticism, the Church is left to contend with idiots who preach the gospel of money. The Prosperity Gospellers are a great curse upon our times. Their avarice and distortion of texts such as the passage in Romans above must be exposed and utterly rejected.
We have had occasion recently to think upon one of the more famous passages in the Pauline library: namely Romans 8: 31-39. This is one of those passages which demands it be firmly anchored into its context, lest it be twisted by perverted minds.
The reason why context is so important is the otherwise unqualified, open-ended nature of the initial promise:
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? [Romans 8: 31-32]This is a favorite text of the Prosperity Gospellers. "Look, mate. You want that swanky car? God will give it to you if you believe with faith of sufficient quantity and quality. Does it not say that God will give you all things? Oh, and since God is going to give you all this, you are freed up to give me what you do have."
Since old-style theological and biblical liberalism has departed to the plains of Moab whence it came, and is left bubbling in the cauldrons of radical pomo agnosticism, the Church is left to contend with idiots who preach the gospel of money. The Prosperity Gospellers are a great curse upon our times. Their avarice and distortion of texts such as the passage in Romans above must be exposed and utterly rejected.
Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Daily Devotional
No Prosperity Gospel
At certain periods clouds cover the believer's sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. There are many who have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the "green pastures" by the side of the "still waters," but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they have to tread the sandy desert; in the place of sweet waters, they find troubled streams, bitter to their taste, and they say, "Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not happen." Oh! say not so, thou who art walking in darkness.
The best of God's saints must drink the wormwood; the dearest of his children must bear the cross. No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can always keep his harp from the willows. Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and unclouded path, because you were weak and timid. He tempered the wind to the shorn lamb, but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life, you must enter upon the riper and rougher experience of God's full-grown children. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
"Thou art my hope in the day of evil."
Jeremiah 17:17
Charles H. Spurgeon
The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God's Word, "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;" and it is a great truth, that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be "As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day," yet sometimes that light is eclipsed.At certain periods clouds cover the believer's sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. There are many who have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the "green pastures" by the side of the "still waters," but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they have to tread the sandy desert; in the place of sweet waters, they find troubled streams, bitter to their taste, and they say, "Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not happen." Oh! say not so, thou who art walking in darkness.
The best of God's saints must drink the wormwood; the dearest of his children must bear the cross. No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can always keep his harp from the willows. Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and unclouded path, because you were weak and timid. He tempered the wind to the shorn lamb, but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life, you must enter upon the riper and rougher experience of God's full-grown children. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
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