The gospel of bling bling - Creflo Dollar - get rich quick
There is an interesting video here on word faith, seed faith and the prosperity gospel: Creflo Dollar has some pad, not to mention some cheek!
I heard an interesting comment yesterday. A church leader has an expensive mortgage taken out on his church property. Although he dislikes the prosperity message, he said: ‘If I preach the simple gospel, the people will not come and I will not be able to afford to repay the mortgage. But if I preach the prosperity message, the people will come and I get many bottoms on seats and enough offerings to pay all the bills.’
One has to ask him then, what is the point of having a church at all if he has to compromise and/or even apostasise and cannot preach the true God-pleasing gospel but a pagan man pleasing one? Surely his focus should be on Jesus anyway, and winning true disciples, to be spiritual minded and servants- not focussed on how many greedy, worldly minded, unspiritual, money obsessed, self absorbed, selfish, undiscipled people fill his seats.
‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God….then all the things you need [not necessarily want] will be given to you. Don’t worry about or run after them like the pagans do.’ said Jesus.
I John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
I John 3:17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
