Discovering the Prosperity Gospel
The Rise of a Parallel, Post-Biblical Christianity
By Grant Retief | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014The fact that South Africa is a churched nation doesn’t mean it’s a gospeled nation.
Three Post-Prosperity Gospel Testimonies
9Marks | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014A South African pastor interviews three Christian women about their experience in prosperity-preaching churches.
A “Gospel” that Almost Killed Me
By Sean DeMars | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014Jesus saved me from the prosperity gospel, and he can and will save more.
The Prosperity Gospel in My Own Heart
By David W. Jones | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014It may be easy for you to spot the prosperity gospel on TV, but can you spot it in your own heart?
A Softer Prosperity Gospel: More Common Than You Think
By David Schrock | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014Five trademarks of a subtler strain of prosperity teaching.
Analyzing the Prosperity Gospel
The Soil of the Prosperity Gospel
By Jonathan Baer | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014The prosperity gospel is the bitter harvest of an ancient seed planted in modern soil.
Why Has the Prosperity Gospel Prospered?
By Miguel Núñez | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014Why this heresy? And why now?
Why Is the Prosperity Gospel Attractive?
By Sugel Michelén | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014The message of prosperity appeals directly to our native greed.
5 Errors of the Prosperity Gospel
By David W. Jones | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014If the prosperity gospel is true, grace is obsolete, God is irrelevant, and man is the measure of all things.
Nine Marks of a Prosperity Gospel Church
By D. A. Horton | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014A prosperity gospel church is a purely anti-nine marks church.
Responding to the Prosperity Gospel
Do You Know What Your Missionaries Actually Teach?!
By Sean DeMars | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014Love the gospel, protect it, and guard it. And for the love of all things good and holy, please stop sending missionaries if they don’t.
Money: An Instrument for Blessing, Not an Indicator of It
By John Onwuchekwa | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014When it comes to money, our churches shouldn’t be cul-de-sacs but thoroughfares.
Prosperity Preaching: Deceitful and Deadly
By John Piper | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014Pastors, don’t preach a message that kindles suicidal desires.
Evangelizing Prosperity Gospel Adherents
By Allen Duty | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014How can we better prepare ourselves to evangelize those who believe the prosperity gospel?
Prosperity Gospel Book Reviews
Book Review: Break Out!, by Joel Osteen
Review by Bob Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.06.2014Joel probably is America’s pastor. Sadly, Break Out! pastors people to be narcissistic, biblically illiterate, and theologically confused.
Book Review: Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits, by T.D. Jakes
Review by Steven Harris | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014Simply put, Reposition Yourself is a self-help book—and a dangerous one, at that.
Book Review: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven, by T.D. Jakes
Review by John Power | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.14.2014What if someone with bad ideas is really good at describing people—their struggles, fears, and desires? Unfortunately, I’m afraid that’s the case with megachurch pastor T. D. Jakes.
Other Book Reviews
Book Review: Preaching: A Biblical Theology, by Jason Meyer
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.03.2014My impression is that much—most?—of what goes by the name of expository preaching isn’t actually expository preaching.
Book Review: Growing Up, by Robby Gallaty
Review by Garrett Kell | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 11.11.2013The one thing this book is not designed to do is to be read and put on the shelf.
Book Review: Embracing Shared Ministry, by Joseph Hellerman
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Prosperity Gospel | 01.15.2014This book fails to explain clearly Paul’s theology and its implications for the church.
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