Tag: prosperity gospel
“Our church operates like orchestra. Every day we make perfect harmony and fantastic symphony,” says Yoido Full Gospel Church’s senior pastor, Rev. Young Hoon Lee. More
“You enter into the soul, the spirit of somebody else by listening to them, not by telling them something,” according to this retired Presbyterian minister who says he misses the intimacy that comes with pastoral ministry. More
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a prosperity gospel, according to megachurch leader David Platt. It is “a homeless and wounded gospel” about “adversity, persecution, struggles, poverty, and helping one another out.” More
“Immigrant religion today is coming here to evangelize us and then to go back out to evangelize where they’re from,” says Dana Robert, professor of world Christianity and history of mission at the Boston University School of Theology. More
An interpretation of Jesus’ teachings that emphasizes wealth and prosperity seems to be spreading fast, especially in many African-American churches. But critics are calling the “prosperity gospel” a distortion of authentic Christian faith. More