I talk easily about my family, my hobbies and my job, but I’m often mute when I have an opportunity to share the gospel.
When you hear the term ‘prosperity gospel’, do you think of the stereotype perpetuated by the movement’s prominent leaders: someone who either was wealthy or wanted to be wealthy?
The great travesty of the prosperity gospel is that, if we embrace it, it can lead us to believe we’re being faithful to God when we aren’t.
If we don’t convey the enthusiasm, joy and peace that we claim to have from the Spirit, people have no reason to believe us, and we become the worst kind of salespeople.
We’re bearing fruit, we’re being as faithful to God as we know how to be, and we aren’t pursuing happiness the way the world tells us to. Doesn’t this make us the good soil?