“I preach that anybody can improve their lives. I think God wants us to be prosperous. I think he wants us to be happy. To me, you need to have money to pay your bills. I think God wants us to send our kids to college. I think he wants us to be a blessing to other people. But I don’t think I’d say God wantsus to be rich. It’s all relative, isn’t it?”

It’s a quote from an article on the Christianity Today website – which is deeply disturbing if true. But then, reading through the Times article linked on the site certainly is an eye opener as well – as the opening story of one George Adams shows: being a Christian means being blessed by a God who won’t want anything less than prosperity.

I find this very odd – that our Lord Jesus would die on the cross so that we could send our kids to college…

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Joel Osteen preaches weekly to the Lakewood Church in Texas – a congregation of about 15,000 that meet in a converted basketball stadium.

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