Let me see if I have this right...CP did not publish what they really teach but publish false statements instead. If they would publish an interview on the topic it will be full of lies. But then people like yourself would be able to point out the things that do not line up with the Bible for everyone to see. You say what they teach is false, but you are against an open forum where their unfiltere...more

Let me see if I have this right...CP did not publish what they really teach but publish false statements instead. If they would publish an interview on the topic it will be full of lies. But then people like yourself would be able to point out the things that do not line up with the Bible for everyone to see. You say what they teach is false, but you are against an open forum where their unfiltered statements can be analyzed and discussed. So believer, I believe that you are afraid of the truth; afraid of what they actually teach because it will be demonstrated that what they teach lines up with God's word.

Now let see how you twist out of this one.less

Jehovahnissi, Agreed, Jesus said, "It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing." John 6:63. And John 15:5, "I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."

Paul, Huumm...You do not seem to understand that God honors his word and that he responds to your faith. Look what he says in Jeremiah 1:12, "...I watch over my word to perform it." Jesus told his disciples in John 15:7, "If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you." Just like God promised us eternal life when we confess our bel...more

Paul,

Huumm...You do not seem to understand that God honors his word and that he responds to your faith. Look what he says in Jeremiah 1:12, "...I watch over my word to perform it." Jesus told his disciples in John 15:7, "If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you." Just like God promised us eternal life when we confess our belief that God raised Jesus from the dead and make Jesus our Lord we receive as other blessings, resources and help as we meet God's conditions as the word of God teaches us:

Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God; and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight." 1 John 3:21, 22

But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well Matthew 6:33

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. Hebrews 11:6

Jesus told the Jews in John 10:35 that the scripture cannot be broken. That means God's word is sure and we can count on Him to fulfill his promises.less

Jehovahnissi, Do not forget the God has given us promises for living in this present world and not just for our future in heaven: Also delight yourself in the Lord, And he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4 But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at t...more

Jehovahnissi,

Do not forget the God has given us promises for living in this present world and not just for our future in heaven:

Also delight yourself in the Lord, And he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4

But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. Deuteronomy 8:18

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19less

Not so oldstudent! Prosperity is part of the benefits that are available to the one who yields his life to the Lordship of Christ Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake, but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, bro...more

Not so oldstudent! Prosperity is part of the benefits that are available to the one who yields his life to the Lordship of Christ

Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake, but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. Mark 10:29, 30

Paul points out in Romans 8:32, "He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?" and in Ephesians 3:20 that God is, "able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us" And that power is faith. Jesus told us in Mark 11:22. "To have the God kind of faith." And that we could have what we say if we believe (Mark 11:23) And that those who meditate on God's word will succeed and prosper, Joshua 1:8 & Psalms 1:3.

You think the Bible does not promise healing? You better look again. It says in James 5:14, 15:

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

God has given us promises salvation, deliverance, healing and prosperity for us to appropriate by faith based on the authority of his word.less

believer, If you twist the meaning of peoples words then you will not be effective in persuading others. Now about what I said earlier, the author of this article made some false statements about prosperity teaching and then criticized it for those false statements. Such a miss-characterization misleads the readers. If the author wants to be truthful and persuasive he needs to first get one of th...more

believer, If you twist the meaning of peoples words then you will not be effective in persuading others. Now about what I said earlier, the author of this article made some false statements about prosperity teaching and then criticized it for those false statements. Such a miss-characterization misleads the readers. If the author wants to be truthful and persuasive he needs to first get one of the proponents of prosperity to explain what the Bible teaches about prosperity before he starts criticizing it. I have never seen an article in CP where they interviewed Creflow or Kenneth or Jesse or Joel or Joyce and asked the to explain the principles of prosperity. But I have seen many articles here miss-characterizing what such people teach. What are they afraid of that they can not portray it accurately?

Also, I think that it is odd that CP seldom published articles on what different ministries are accomplishing other than the occasional press release. So they could go to Bill Graham's ministry to write a little piece on all the activities that they are dong and all the countries that they are in and number of people that they have lead to the Lord for the current year. And CP could do the same thing with In Touch, and with World Changers and with CBN, JMM, JDM and KCM, etc. Yet the secular media and a lot of the Christian media only like to publish negative things so readers never hear about all the positive things these ministries are accomplishing such as helping orphans, sharing the gospels in prisons, supporting our military, helping missionaries or broadcasting the gospel to numerous countries around the world.less

believer, This is interesting. I post something and you have trouble understanding the actually meaning of my post and think I said something else.

Oops, a typo. Should be Romans 13:8 not 8:13.

If was not for the successful spread of the Gospel of Christ then the Muslims would have no reason to attack. Yet because six million Muslims come to Christ each year they are threatened by us. It not the teachings on prosperity that threatens them by the message of God's love.

Again another attempt to miss-characterize the teachings about prosperity that are taken straight from the Bible. Contrary to what is reported in this article, those who teach prosperity do not encourage Christians to buy things they cannot afford and do not need. That is a lie! Rather we are taught to stay out of debt, "Owe no one anything, except to love one another," Romans 8:13. The truth is t...more

Again another attempt to miss-characterize the teachings about prosperity that are taken straight from the Bible. Contrary to what is reported in this article, those who teach prosperity do not encourage Christians to buy things they cannot afford and do not need. That is a lie! Rather we are taught to stay out of debt, "Owe no one anything, except to love one another," Romans 8:13. The truth is they teach Christians to put God first in their finances (Remember seek ye first the kingdom of God, Matthew 6:33?). And neither is materialism the goal of prosperity. Rather it is finance the spreading of the gospel and for being a blessing to others. If believer those not have an abundance, how can he send out missionaries, tract and Bibles or buy broadcast time on radio and TV or underwrite the cost of a crusade. Thus prosperity and faith teaching are not contrary revival. It all about taking God at his word, believing it and standing on it to accomplish what God has called each of us to do.

And the article, 'Did Christians Cause the Crash' is simply a hit piece against Christian. Informed people understand that the crash in the sub-prime mortgage industry was cause by government deregulation and laws to force banks to lead to people who lacked adequate to income to afford a house (and they were not all Christians). These loans were then packaged together by investment firms and marked to investors. It was when the home buyers were unable to make their payments then the housing bubble burst and the investors had substantial losses.

I suggest to the Christian Post that they interview some real prosperity preachers and get them to explain what they actually teach rather rather than get an explanation second hand from some one who is not informed about what Biblical prosperity is.less

If one looks closely at the contents of EvilBible.com he will clearly see that some Bible passages at taken out of context and many assumptions are made about others while ignoring Biblical scholarship. The editors of this web site have simply gather passages from the Bible in an attempt to portray the God of the Bible in a negative light while bypassing the clear teaching of God's word on righteo...more

If one looks closely at the contents of EvilBible.com he will clearly see that some Bible passages at taken out of context and many assumptions are made about others while ignoring Biblical scholarship. The editors of this web site have simply gather passages from the Bible in an attempt to portray the God of the Bible in a negative light while bypassing the clear teaching of God's word on righteousness, holiness and sin.less

I believe that the solution to practical atheism is called discipleship.

So you are critical of Benny Hinn and this possible divorce? But who are we to judge the situation? We do not know all the facts. We do not know what the issues are or which party is in the wrong. But every marriage encounters difficulties. What will be the outcome? Maybe they will reconcile. We can hope. We can pray. And you mention Pat Robertson. He is my spiritual father. I would not be serv...more

So you are critical of Benny Hinn and this possible divorce? But who are we to judge the situation? We do not know all the facts. We do not know what the issues are or which party is in the wrong. But every marriage encounters difficulties. What will be the outcome? Maybe they will reconcile. We can hope. We can pray.

And you mention Pat Robertson. He is my spiritual father. I would not be serving the Lord if it were not for Pat and his broadcast. When you get to heaven, you will discover that multitudes of people have come to the Lord through these despised televangelist.less

Hi Mike, I hope you are doing well today. Well, if these and other ministries are not serving Christ and fulfilling the tasks that God has assigned them then you can expect them to weaken and loose the support of their partners. It is not easy having a ministry and depending on the Lord for finances. Just try it yourself and you will see that if you are not ministering to people and uplifting t...more

Hi Mike,

I hope you are doing well today. Well, if these and other ministries are not serving Christ and fulfilling the tasks that God has assigned them then you can expect them to weaken and loose the support of their partners. It is not easy having a ministry and depending on the Lord for finances. Just try it yourself and you will see that if you are not ministering to people and uplifting the name of Christ, then the money just will not come in.

Ministries require money to do their job. They hold meetings and broadcast programs at no charge, yet the services they provide are not free. Some one has to pay for them. They accept offerings. As non-profit organizations they must comply with IRS regulations. If you do not agree with a ministry, you are free to not support it. Yet, if God is behind it, then the Lord will provide the funds that are needed.less

The purpose of the senate investigation was simply to discredit and cause financial ruin of the six ministries. This tactic had been used before with other non-profit organizations. But it did not work and these ministries are still going strong. I do not think we will be hearing news about these investigations going any further.

Jesus said, "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock." Matthew 7:24, 25. We are not to live according to our experience but according to the word of God. If one is a follower of Ch...more

Jesus said, "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock." Matthew 7:24, 25. We are not to live according to our experience but according to the word of God. If one is a follower of Christ then he will study, believe and obey the word of God. To become a Christian one must make Jesus their Lord. And if Jesus is one's Lord then he must be willing to obey his word. Blessings will come to us as a result of our obedience but also persecutions.less

Mike, All I can say is: Yea, yea, yea Mike you are in a great position to judge my motives. You have never met me. You have not seen the results of my work on the mission field. And you don't know any of the difficulties that I have been through. Will you be happy if I stop giving money to the Lord's work, leave the mission field and get a secular job where I would make thousands of more dol...more

Mike,
All I can say is:
Yea, yea, yea Mike you are in a great position to judge my motives. You have never met me. You have not seen the results of my work on the mission field. And you don't know any of the difficulties that I have been through.

Will you be happy if I stop giving money to the Lord's work, leave the mission field and get a secular job where I would make thousands of more dollar$???less

Mike, "your verse quoting is to make others feel guilty, ashame afraid." I'm not the only one quoting verses. Even you quote verse to make your point. If you find quoting verses offensive then I will expect you to stop this practice.

Yea, yea, yea Mike you are in a great position to judge my motives. You have never met me. You have not seen the results of my work on the mission field. And you don't know any of the difficulties that I have been through. If God did not want to motivate us to give, then why did he put promises in the Bible like Proverbs 3:9, 10, Honor the Lord with your substance, With the first fruits of all...more

Yea, yea, yea Mike you are in a great position to judge my motives. You have never met me. You have not seen the results of my work on the mission field. And you don't know any of the difficulties that I have been through.

If God did not want to motivate us to give, then why did he put promises in the Bible like Proverbs 3:9, 10, Honor the Lord with your substance, With the first fruits of all your increase: So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine. If you have a problem with this verse complain to God and not to me.less

delightnthelord, Since I am not the subject of this board so I'm not answering you any more. Go find some one else to nit pick.