Continue to preach prosperity

There have been a lot of caustic comments passed concerning the preaching in many evangelical and pentecostal churches about prosperity. Some highly educated and clever people have labelled this as prosperity gospel.

These scholars are actually Christians mocking and making fun of other Christians about what is written in the Bible.

This is exactly what a secular media and politicians want; there is much delight when Christians slander and contradict each other in public.

I have noticed that the origin of this term lies with theologians and academics with a European and affluent background.

It is very easy for people who benefitted from a system of segregation, which favoured certain churches and races, to dismiss the quest of black people to prosper as “greed gospel”.

Prosperity gospel also happened during apartheid ... especially for most white churches who received state land and funding and they in turn supported that demonic regime and its racist as well as segregationist practices.

As for this government, it has failed to change the social conditions of blacks. As a result, the emergence of these pastors and churches is to answer to a social problem.

They feed the hungry, counsel people for free, deliver people from dark forces and assist in weddings and funerals. In most cases, these services are free.

Poor black people go to these churches because the government programmes are failing, notwithstanding that these people have testimonies to prove that their lives have changed.

The media never bothers to publish these testimonies and instead we continuously read and hear about the few rotten and scandalous pastors.

I urge pastors and prophets to continue to preach prosperity until our people are free from poverty.

Do not listen to clever people whose intelligence has brought nuclear arms, global warming and all sorts of evil on earth. Khotso KD Moleko