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Prosperity Gospel: Say What-#Ep 2806 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to challenges of faith radio program. I am
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  Speaker 1: Jerry mccans. Thank you for joining like technoledge, God and
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  Speaker 1: spot like each of them, especially because since entering two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, fifty percent men and fifty percent women, ages
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  Speaker 1: ranging from seventeen to forty five. And now to today's
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  Speaker 1: program on Say What episode twenty eight zero six, and
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  Speaker 1: the topic is about prosperity gospel. Say What Yes an
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  Speaker 1: article written by Aaron Earls, who I hope to have
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  Speaker 1: on a program in twenty twenty five. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: individuals have reached out design to come on, and I
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  Speaker 1: will try as I move along step by step, day
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  Speaker 1: by day. But Aaron Earls did a research and again
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  Speaker 1: he's written an interesting article. Aaron is over at the
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  Speaker 1: LifeWay research. He says, many church goers say their church
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  Speaker 1: connects financial blessings with personal generosity. For most pastors, those
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  Speaker 1: ideas as bankrupt. A like research study of US Protestant
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  Speaker 1: pastors finds few hold or teach beliefs connected to the
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  Speaker 1: prosperity Gospel. The theological movement that teaches God wants to
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  Speaker 1: make followers materially wealthy, and we do so if individuals
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  Speaker 1: hold certain beliefs or perform specific actions. A previous LifeWay
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  Speaker 1: Research study, however, found that these beliefs much more prevalent
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  Speaker 1: among church gores, including many who said their church teaches
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  Speaker 1: these ideas. And as you already know, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: chime in because you're not going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: find that din't the word of God, but if you do,
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  Speaker 1: feel free to email me at cof rp FRO time
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  Speaker 1: mail dot com. Aaron continues the large differences we see
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  Speaker 1: between pastor and church gore beliefs related to the prosperity
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  Speaker 1: Gospel means pastors are often not the source of these
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  Speaker 1: beliefs among Protestants, as Scott McConnell, he's active director of
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  Speaker 1: life Wave Research. But the gap likely also means pastors
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  Speaker 1: are not teaching the reasons for their own convictions on
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  Speaker 1: the subject. Pastors positions and church gore are confusion. Aaron
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  Speaker 1: continues to say that fewer than one in ten eight
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  Speaker 1: percent Protestant pastors believe individuals must do something for God
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  Speaker 1: in order to receive material blessings from him. Ninety percent disagree,
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  Speaker 1: including seventy four percent who disagreed strongly. Few two percent
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  Speaker 1: aren't sure. Well, if you get in the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: you will be able to see. And you gotta remember
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  Speaker 1: that all scripture is not two you and I, but
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  Speaker 1: it's forced that which can be applicable to our lives applied,
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  Speaker 1: but only trying to apply something that's not to you.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron continues. Similarly, if few of the one in five
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  Speaker 1: eighteen percent say their churches teach that if you give
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  Speaker 1: more money to the church and charities, God would bless
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  Speaker 1: to give and return around four and five seventy nine
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  Speaker 1: percent disagree, including sixty two percent who disagree strongly. Just
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  Speaker 1: three percent are not sure. Pastors are more spread on
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  Speaker 1: whether God wants people to prosper financially. Still, only thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven percent agree, fifty nine percent disagree, with thirty one
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  Speaker 1: I'm disagree strongly, and five percent are not sure. When
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  Speaker 1: you can be sure, get in the word, ask God
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  Speaker 1: through his Holy Spirit to reveal out of his word
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  Speaker 1: the truth He'll do it few pastors take prosperity Gospel
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  Speaker 1: to the theological bank nine and ten. Pastors describe blessings
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  Speaker 1: from God based on grace rather than God owing people
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  Speaker 1: reward for their actions I one hundred percent of gree
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  Speaker 1: This is counterintuitive for many in the culture that focuses
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  Speaker 1: on performance, said McConnell. Here's an assignment for those of
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  Speaker 1: you who are listening. Get in the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: and what did God say about even Abraham? Even Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: different paul fits teach different teachings. McConnell said. While there
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  Speaker 1: may be confusion among many churchgoers about what their churches teach,
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  Speaker 1: some of the gaps between the average Protestant pastors and
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  Speaker 1: the average church goers should be traced the congressional differences
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  Speaker 1: and write some pastors are more likely to say their
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  Speaker 1: churches teach doctrines related to prosperity Gospel theology in protecular
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  Speaker 1: church goers at large congregations may be more likely to
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  Speaker 1: hear such teaching. Protestant pastors of the largest churches, those
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  Speaker 1: with two hundred and fifty more and worship attendance, are
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  Speaker 1: among the least likely to reject their notion that their
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  Speaker 1: church teaches that if you give more money, God will
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  Speaker 1: bless you in return still seventy their church promost their teaching.
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  Speaker 1: Pastors of these large congregations are also the most likely
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  Speaker 1: to believe God wants people to prosper financially fifty two percent.
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  Speaker 1: Americans like orderly, explainable things they can control. It isn't
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  Speaker 1: surprising pastors describing such blessings and prosperity or having broad appealed,
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  Speaker 1: though it sounds dangerously close to God existing for people
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  Speaker 1: rather than people existing in God's pleasures, said McConnell African
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  Speaker 1: American pastors. Black pastors are among the most likely to
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  Speaker 1: agree with each of the following three statements. To receive
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  Speaker 1: material blessing from God, we have to do something for
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  Speaker 1: God sixteen percent. Our church teaches that if you give
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  Speaker 1: more money to the church and charities, God will bless
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  Speaker 1: him in return forty five percent, And God wants people
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  Speaker 1: to prosper financially seventy two percent. Denominationally, pennel cost pastors
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  Speaker 1: don't cost. The pastors also more often agree we have
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  Speaker 1: to do something for God to receive material blessings from
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  Speaker 1: him sixteen percent. Their church teaches God will bless people
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  Speaker 1: if they give more forty five percent, and that God
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  Speaker 1: wants people to be financially prosperiousd seventy two percent. Younger
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  Speaker 1: pastors and those of formal education beyond college are frequently
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  Speaker 1: among those moths likely to reject the doctrines. For my
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  Speaker 1: question to you, the listener, not what does your pastor say,
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  Speaker 1: Not what your priests say, not what your human teachers say,
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  Speaker 1: not what your rabbi say, not what demon say. What
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