Health and Wealth Gospel?  

StaffSeptember 22, 2010 

In a recent Op-Ed piece by David Brooks of The New York Times, he looks into the life of David Platt of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, AL and how he is challenging the tendencies of evangelicalism preaching and living out a skewed gospel message.  

Here is an excerpt from this article:

Jesus, Platt notes, made it hard on his followers. He created a minichurch, not a mega one. Today, however, building budgets dwarf charitable budgets, and Jesus is portrayed as a genial suburban dude. “When we gather in our church building to sing and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshipping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead, we may be worshipping ourselves.”

Next, Platt takes aim at the American dream. When Europeans first settled this continent, they saw the natural abundance and came to two conclusions: that God’s plan for humanity could be realized here, and that they could get really rich while helping Him do it. This perception evolved into the notion that we have two interdependent callings: to build in this world and prepare for the next. 

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