The Prosperity Gospel (1 of 6)
Series: Fake News
Jeff Strite
James 1:1-4
There's the story about a soldier who was in the midst of a battle. Bullets were flying, bombs exploding all around him, and he's digging a foxhole for all he's worth. Suddenly (as he's digging) he feels something metal and he grabs it. It's a silver cross! Just then, another shell explodes nearby and he buries his head in his arms. He feels someone jump in the foxhole beside him and he looks over and sees an Army Chaplain. The soldier looks at the cross and then looks at the chaplain. He hands the cross over to chaplain and says ''I sure am glad to see you. How do you get this thing to work?''
For the next few weeks we're going to be talking about Fake News. Now, we're not going to be discussing POLITICAL fake news, that might be spread by certain folks in the media (that's not what we're here for). Instead, we're talking about spiritual fake news spread by false teachers, and charlatans. Satan uses that fake news (called false teaching) to get us sidetracked in our faith. Now, how would we know if something is fake news? What source could we look to, to check out whether or not someone is lying to us? That's right... we'd look to the Bible. It's the only reliable source of truth that we have. And if we don't know the Bible as well as we should, we become easy prey for false teachers who would spread fake news.
This morning we're going to talk about something called the ''Prosperity Gospel.'' It goes by other names like ''The Word of Faith Movement'' and ''The Seed Faith Movement.'' A common phrase these folks often use is ''Name it and Claim it.'' And that statement - ''Name it and claim it'' - is code for the idea that if you want a specific blessing from God all you need do is VERBALLY declare the blessing, then claim it... and it will be yours.
One man put it this way: ''As part of the 'God class,' (as Word of Faith teachers say) I had absolute authority to create my own ...
Series: Fake News
Jeff Strite
James 1:1-4
There's the story about a soldier who was in the midst of a battle. Bullets were flying, bombs exploding all around him, and he's digging a foxhole for all he's worth. Suddenly (as he's digging) he feels something metal and he grabs it. It's a silver cross! Just then, another shell explodes nearby and he buries his head in his arms. He feels someone jump in the foxhole beside him and he looks over and sees an Army Chaplain. The soldier looks at the cross and then looks at the chaplain. He hands the cross over to chaplain and says ''I sure am glad to see you. How do you get this thing to work?''
For the next few weeks we're going to be talking about Fake News. Now, we're not going to be discussing POLITICAL fake news, that might be spread by certain folks in the media (that's not what we're here for). Instead, we're talking about spiritual fake news spread by false teachers, and charlatans. Satan uses that fake news (called false teaching) to get us sidetracked in our faith. Now, how would we know if something is fake news? What source could we look to, to check out whether or not someone is lying to us? That's right... we'd look to the Bible. It's the only reliable source of truth that we have. And if we don't know the Bible as well as we should, we become easy prey for false teachers who would spread fake news.
This morning we're going to talk about something called the ''Prosperity Gospel.'' It goes by other names like ''The Word of Faith Movement'' and ''The Seed Faith Movement.'' A common phrase these folks often use is ''Name it and Claim it.'' And that statement - ''Name it and claim it'' - is code for the idea that if you want a specific blessing from God all you need do is VERBALLY declare the blessing, then claim it... and it will be yours.
One man put it this way: ''As part of the 'God class,' (as Word of Faith teachers say) I had absolute authority to create my own ...
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