First publication date: 2015
Total pages: 131
Total chapters: 6 + 4 Appendix
Received on 27th June
Finished reading: July 10 - July 18 (9 days)
Rating out of 5 stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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People sometimes say that “money is the root of all evil,”
but the Bible does not say that. Paul says in 1 Timothy 6:10, the love of money
is a root of all kinds of evils, but that speaks of the love of money, not money
itself.
-Appendix II, Money, Wayne Grudem, pg. 123
I would confidently say, this book is the one, every
Christians must have and must read! This book is an awesome product, a sweet
nectar to our spiritual feeding and helps in producing the right understanding
of true prosperity in our life. This book is bombardment upon the prevailing
PROSPERITY GOSPEL. The book exposes the prosperity Gospel and its poison.
The Prosperity Gospel is a dangerous perversion of the true
Gospel. Its adherents are rising tremendously worldwide. It is taking believers
away from God and the true blessings he wants to grant them. The Gospel is
offering indeed another god, another joy, and another promises that would seem
so deserving news but spoils our body, mind and soul. They twist the Biblical
passages to suit their dangerous theology and prepare tactics to draw peoples
to their arena offering them false hope, false promises and false joy.
The book is so much equipped with all the contents that is
needed and enough to annihilate this false concept of mixing the Gospel or
redefining the Gospel with wealth. The authors are so dedicated to rescue the
believers by showing them how much they have been fooled by the prosperity
preachers in name of peace, joy and hedonistic life-style as blessings in state
of being children of God! Their corrupted words, theology and activities have
damaged lives of lot of people making them repeat the history of the extreme
past: the Edenic fall, the wrong choice, the other god, seeking something else
rather than god and pleasuring in the gains instead of the relationship with
the source.
Debunking every tenets of the prosperity Gospel, the book
then move on offering us the clear concept of Biblical prosperity. It appeals
us to reform our understanding on suffering, on money, on health, on wealth in
light of correct relationship with God and what God has indeed offered us! The
book doesn’t conclude money, wealth, health are inherently bad but it does
warns us against our desires to attain them and make them our gods instead
seeking and awaiting for the true prosperity God would obviously grant us in
his own time.
The Prosperity Gospel replaces, redefines and displaces the
true redeeming Gospel. It fails to allocate the true root of human troubles and
adds more deviation to human goal. Today, many Hyper-Charismatic preachers go
on hand-in-hand with this dangerous theology instead offering what the true
Biblical Gospel has to offer. They preach what the audience want to have
instead what God has to say through his word. They divert their mind into the
things they wish to attain at this life without knowing that they have been
deprived of true blessings from God.
It is true that we obviously need money, health, wealth and
low-intensity suffering in order to live with proper breathing and even to
enroll in ministry works. But the false Gospel we are offered makes us slaves
to those elements. Our life becomes materialistic oriented instead
God-oriented.
The book beautifully portrays a clear picture of a true
prosperity that we should indeed seek. Perhaps, our earthly situations have so
much left us in despair that we are suffocating and wanting prosperity.
Meanwhile, God has indeed greater blessings to offer us that shall never
perish. He knows our situations and yet he also knows he has better things to
offer us.
The greatest prosperity God has offered us indeed is nothing
but ‘Himself’: reconciliation with God. What would be more pleasing to hear
than this? What could be more dramatic blessing than God himself coming into
the world to rescue us and establish a new refreshed fellowship? What’s more
than this we could ever imagine?
I am thankful to have this book and in my recent days of
suffering, distress and suffocation, God has really spoken to me through this
book! I have received a great comfort by knowing we already have true biblical
prosperity. I would repeat again: every church should read this book once in
their life-time.
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3 Comments
You have brought up a good point. However, I feel sad for new Christians or those who do not have an in-depth understanding of the Bible and simply follow the crowd. One group follows the prosperity gospel, while the other opposes it. My heart goes out to both groups.
ReplyDeleteLeaders and people from both groups have diluted what the Bible says. Some claim there is no prosperity, while others assert that Christ died to make you prosperous and heal your body. I see both perspectives as misguided. You can't equate prosperity and the gospel. Physical prosperity is carnal, whereas the gospel is spiritual; Christ died to save your soul, not to heal your body or bless you with wealth.
It's clear that if you believe God will provide for you, He will do so in His own time and according to His will. Therefore, Christians shouldn't stress about this issue. Do not mix the gospel and prosperity—they are different things, but both are true in their own contexts.
My concern is that the Bible should not be used out of context. Discuss physical prosperity only when the context matches. Don't diminish Christ's sacrifice by connecting it to prosperity. However, if you believe and work hard, God will prosper you.
Thanks Daniel brother for your sweet insight!
DeleteYou have brought up a good point. However, I feel sad for new Christians or those who do not have an in-depth understanding of the Bible and simply follow the crowd. One group follows the prosperity gospel, while the other opposes it. My heart goes out to both groups.
ReplyDeleteLeaders and people from both groups have diluted what the Bible says. Some claim there is no prosperity, while others assert that Christ died to make you prosperous and heal your body. I see both perspectives as misguided. You can't equate prosperity and the gospel. Physical prosperity is carnal, whereas the gospel is spiritual; Christ died to save your soul, not to heal your body or bless you with wealth.
It's clear that if you believe God will provide for you, He will do so in His own time and according to His will. Therefore, Christians shouldn't stress about this issue. Do not mix the gospel and prosperity—they are different things, but both are true in their own contexts.
My concern is that the Bible should not be used out of context. Discuss physical prosperity only when the context matches. Don't diminish Christ's sacrifice by connecting it to prosperity. However, if you believe and work hard, God will prosper you.