{"id":25895,"date":"2020-10-22T08:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25895"},"modified":"2020-10-24T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T03:52:08","slug":"book-review-god-greed-and-the-prosperity-gospel-by-costi-hinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25895","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel, by Costi Hinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Costi Hinn,\u00a0<em>God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: How Truth Overwhelms a Life Built on Lies<\/em>. Zondervan, 2019. 224 pages.<\/p>\n<p>I was participating in a Q&amp;A session at a pastor\u2019s conference in Africa when an attendee asked an important question: \u201cwhen the traveling preacher comes to my city with promises of God\u2019s blessing for all those who would make donations to his ministry, should I give to him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My response was profound: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the other pastor speaking at the conference, a Zambian brother, had a more thoughtful response. He said, with kindness in his voice: \u201cIf the prosperity preachers were telling the truth, Africa, India, and South America would be the richest places on earth. The only person getting rich through these ministries were the preachers themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone laughed a little, but his response touched on what seems to be the inherent absurdity that sits right on the surface of the prosperity gospel. The pastors in this movement are obsessed with getting rich, and they are exploiting people\u2019s willingness to believe what they think the Bible tells them.<\/p>\n<p><em>God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel<\/em>, by Costi Hinn (Benny Hinn\u2019s nephew), is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the beliefs, priorities, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel is an easy-to-read, conversational book that makes a convincing case for rejecting the prosperity gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[3190,3191,364],"class_list":["post-25895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-costi-hinn","tag-god-greed-and-the-prosperity-gospel","tag-prosperity-gospel","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25897,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25895\/revisions\/25897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}