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"Corrective Tract for the Prosperity Gospel"
Mark 8:34-36
If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
We found this on www.desiringgod.com. They called it a "Corrective Tract for the Prosperity Gospel"- the ugliest of American theological exports we encounter here in the church. While we hate the prosperity gospel, we realize that we too often have attitudes that are consistent with this false gospel. Anytime we get bent about our circumstances not going the way we would like them to go- beneath that is an attitude of entitlement toward God. As though because we are Christians we deserve to have lives that are affluent and healthy and that go the way they want them to. So, while we resist this false gospel in our own context, we also guard against it, in it's more subtle forms in our lives.
-J
March 31, 2009
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