A reflective critique of prosperity theology, examining how modern Christianity has drifted from the teachings of Jesus and the apostles, and calling for a return to truth and spiritual integrity.

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Imagine If Evangelicals Taught the Truth About Jesus

Imagine if evangelicals taught the truth about Jesus…

Better still, imagine if Saint Paul preached “prosperity.”

Almost every problem in the world today stems from false Christianity.
Even the slave trade.

Imagine if it had been different.
Imagine if, instead of slavery, there had been an immigrant worker program.
Let me rephrase that.

Imagine if the Church had opposed slavery and insisted that the right way to till the lands in America was through a structured immigrant labor system, one in which workers retained dignity, agency, and the right to return to Africa.

The Church failed then.
The allure of filthy lucre was overwhelming.

Let me re-rephrase that.

Imagine that Saint Paul were head of the Church in the 1490s, when slavery technically began.

Imagine that.

Back to where we started.

Imagine if evangelicals taught the truth about Jesus.

They now stand, it seems, as one of the last great bastions of entrenched falsehoods within the body of Christ.

Better still, imagine if Saint Paul had been like many of today’s pastors, bishops, and overseers, like Creflo Dollar or Johnson Suleman, or… (insert your preferred example).

And because nothing but prosperity is taught in many “churches” today, many do not know that they are the salt of the earth.

Instead, they compete with the world.
They strive to outperform the world in every expression of materialism.

Pause and consider that.

That, my prosperity-believing friend, you tell your conscience, now shamed into silence, is the reason Jesus came, suffered, and died?

You truly believe that?

And in furtherance of this self-deception, you proclaim to anyone who will listen:
“I serve a rich God.”

Take a bow.

You have arrived at an enlightenment the apostles themselves never attained.

And so, the exhilaration of following the true Christ is replaced with the intoxication of materialism and the pursuit of excess.

Is this what we intend to present to the Son of God as our body of work?
With the Holy Spirit as our companion?

On the day of judgment?

Perhaps now the words of Jesus begin to make sense:
“I know you not. Depart from me, you worker of iniquity.”

Yet, for those who can still read, there is hope.

Find it now.
Find it today.
Especially in this season of Lent.

#dk