I have to be honest, my faith in Christ is hanging by a thread. And most days I think I would be happier just being an atheist.
That said, posts like this from other Christians, give me hope.
If the Prosperity Gospel could be widely discredited, then perhaps whatever pain America has coming because of our greed and profligacy might be redeemed.
The silver lining of this coming recession, is that it will expose the Prosperity Preachers and the evil they preach. And it may just save my Faith.
Cat said:
Been there! After my Maranatha Campus Ministry and CBC experience, I too hung on a string! In fact, sitting around for 4 years here in LA gave me ample time to look back at the first 15 years of my Christianity (excluding The Well, that would make it 19 years), but those first 15 years were a bad bad nightmare and I mean very bad. But, had it not been for the gospel, in all seriousness I would have cut the string.
I know you maybe clowning around, but I just wanted you to know that I have never been more alive to Jesus and yet still live with doubts. But here is some great books that have really worked on my head and heart:
A Reason for God by Tim Keller (I have yet to encounter a CHristian thinker like him, he’s off the chain!)
Check him out on Youtube:
(He is lecturing at UC Berkeley):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9fmKSwuoDE
And this one he is at AUTHORS at GOOGLES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxup3OS5ZhQ
The Dawkins Delusion by Alister McGrath (I just read “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins and Alister lovingly dismantled it)
and the last read is THE GATE CHURCH by Frank Damazio, that should really straighten you out, LOL!!!
I recommend Great Faith by Pastor Wendell Smith and Mega-Faith by Marilyn Hickey. Note, please read the great one before reading the mega one… that’s how God works… you have to read the books in order. And in order for these books to make sense you need to sow an “illumination” seed including an entire paycheck… to me (:
Cat, if you read these books rest assured you’ll cut the thread!
Haha. Thanks for the heads up.
Ya, me too.
Ya, that would be a vindication for those of us who have had red flags about the Prosperity Gospel all along. As long as they don’t lay the blame of the recession at the feet of ALL Christians — then we’ll REALLY have to think seriously about the atheist option!