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October 5, 2020 · 41:51 · 5 min

Third critique: the shadow of the prosperity gospel

  • What does the Bible mean by winning and success?

The article's third critique: while no sermon preached an explicit prosperity gospel, its shadow lurks — 'Pastor H' defines winning as finding God's will for your life and accomplishing it, then names his win as 100,000 social media followers. The hosts will accept the definition biblically framed — Stephen was winning while they threw rocks — but warn that undefined words get absorbed in worldly context. Ben's corrective: ask what winning looks like in the Bible — death, sacrifice, death — and teach that, because the world's definition and the Bible's are not the same.

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