Thursday, October 12, 2006
God and Money
Waiting room reading can be very interesting. This morning I got to read a recent issue of Time. The cover story about God and money was thought provoking. I learned some new terms - Prosperity Theology and Prosperity Lite. These are being defined by Joel Osteen and some of the others that preach that if you give money to God, God will bless you. What could be more attracting to a flock than to say that God does not want you to be poor? It appears to be one more time that God is being called on to serve humanity instead of humanity serving God. It intrigues me how folks are attracted to personalities and are not discriminating in what is being presented. What and why we believe needs to be asked repeatedly if we are to be faithful to God through Jesus Christ.
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Maybe Joel thinks he is offering something akin to Ptolemy's second baptism and is freeing them from being God's slaves to be brought out as God's children. Maybe Joel thinks that anybody rubbing shoulders with the "streets o'Gold" clique need to be well accoutered. Maybe Joel thinks. Maybe he doesn't.
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