If you watch television on any Sunday morning you can find a dozen preachers speaking on three topics. Normally, seven out of the twelve will be telling you about God's great plan to bless you and everything you touch. They will then continue to tell you how if you just have faith God will provide everything you need and also everything you can ever want. These false teachers, as many would call them, are preaching what evangelicals call "Prosperity Doctrine" and are some of the wealthiest and most well known men within Christianity.
The problem with this teaching is that God never says in the New Testament that He wants you to have wealth beyond imagine. In fact, the New Testament speaks about the hardships and the trails every true Christian must face. Paul, the writer of a large portion of the New Testament, talks about the hardships he endured and continued to endure until his death. Are these men saying that he did not have enough faith? Christ even says it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.(Matt 19:24) So, how can so many fall so easily to such ridiculous statements as the ones heard on their televisions? It is simple they desire this world and the things that come with it. Christianity as a whole has fallen prey to materialism and the greatest proponent of this is the Doctrine of Prosperity. In truth, currently Africa is booming. Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds, but I warn you if we do not step in a begin to teach the true word of God Africa will decline faster than Europe or the Americas could ever have in the faith.
So, next time you get the urge to watch a preacher on the television listen to what he says, and you decide is he preaching the word or the world.
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