First, “The False Health & Wealth Gospel”
The vast majority of Evangelicals reject the “health and wealth gospel.” This is the false gospel that claims that if you obey God, then He will bless you with physical health and material wealth.
This false gospel makes God like a Genie in a bottle who grants us all our wishes. This false gospel seeks to manipulate God by being good in order to receive good things. This false gospel worships physical health and material wealth instead of worshipping God.
God does not promise us material blessings. He actually promises us suffering: “In fact everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). “In this world you will have trouble” (John 16:33). God promises His peace and His presence and His power in the midst of our suffering, but He does not promise physical and material blessings.
Second, “The False Gospel of Emotional Health & Wealth”
Today’s post is not about the false health & wealth gospel.” Everyone posts against that.
Today’s post is about a much more subtle, much more insidious, much more hidden false gospel—a gospel that all too easily creeps
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