12 Reasons to Reject Prosperity Gospel Teaching

 

1. Prosperity teaching misinterprets Scripture passages by ignoring their context.
2. Prosperity teaching promotes a manipulative relationship with God.
3. Prosperity teaching fails to identify correctly humanity’s greatest need.
4. Prosperity teaching falsely claims that spiritual maturity can be measured by material wealth and that material wealth is always a sign of God’s blessing.
5. Prosperity teaching urges people to give primarily to receive material gain.
6. Prosperity teaching claims that all poverty is directly related to the sins of people.
7. Prosperity teaching makes an idol out of money and encourages greed.
8. Prosperity teaching does not include the message of self-denial.
9. Prosperity teaching misunderstands what it means to have strong faith
10. Prosperity teaching falsely promises healing from all sickness in this life for faithful Christians.
11. Prosperity teaching values humanity’s will over God’s will.
12. Prosperity teaching does not account for the Bible’s teachings about suffering in the Christian life.
    

–From Rev. Anthony’s Teaching Series on the problem of the prosperity gospel