After years of seeing the prosperity “gospel” advance in America, Africa, and beyond, a retaliation is coming– one grounded in the Word of God and the gospel of grace. It’s exciting to see. Watch American Gospel Christ Alone, a brand-new documentary directed by Brandon Kimber. It takes aim at this scourge. America has actually constantly been a practical, can-do type of nation, and the movie argues that the significant focus of the prosperity “gospel” matches American culture.

In providing this searing review, which applies not simply to “them” out there however to us (for a lot of us adore cash and relieve more than we might be at ease confessing), Kimber initially sets up what the true gospel is: great news focused in the completed work of Christ. Standing in the spot of sinners like us, Jesus has actually taken in the great wrath of the Father and made an escape of hell and into heaven. When we rely on Christ as our Lord and Savior by God-given faith, we are immediately justified and counted righteous in God’s sight, the sheer benefit of Christ’s now being our own (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 5:1– 2; Eph. 2:8– 9). Many evangelical theologians and pastors talk about this fact in the movie, together constructing a clear and powerful case for faith in Christ.

Watch American Gospel Christ Alone as it traces the stories of genuine Christians whose lives have actually converged with prosperity teaching in some way. One lady sobs as she states how health-and-wealth teaching ripped her life apart, piece by piece, up until she had absolutely nothing. The movie likewise presents us to Katherine Berger, a lady struggling with many dreadful health problems– one after another, it appears– who nevertheless radiates intense faith in God.

Likewise popular in the movie is Costi Hinn, nephew of faith-healer Benny Hinn. Costi served on his uncle’s group as a “catcher” who experienced supposed miracles all the time. His testament– in the near future to launch as a book– takes us into the seamy experience of the faith-healer, a business that takes advantage of the poverty-stricken and suffering to enrich the flush and covetous.

The minute that takes shape the disgraceful nature of faith-healing comes when Costi goes over how Benny Hinn would (and does) “heal” individuals with small disorders. When it pertained to terminally ill kids and other victims dealing with extensive difficulties, the “healer” declined. This was the very first disconcerting note in Costi’s young life that ultimately led him out of prosperity religious beliefs (which’s what it is– a separate religious beliefs than biblical Christianity).

Watch American Gospel Christ Alone as it does not suppress the truth; the camera pans back to the outer boundaries of auditoriums at Hinn crusades, where desperate moms and dads cradle unhealthy kids, neglected, undesirable, and unhealed. We see this, and we hear Justin Peters testify to this experience personally, and we can not help but feel both misery and righteous anger– Christ’s own anger. The money-changers are still in the temple, still making God’s name a mockery.

This is a precise parallel of what Jesus did not do. He did not go into the ministry to profit. He did not operate in the name of God to be popular and liked. He did not cure those who can do anything for Him. Rather, He went to the physically and spiritually inadequate and made eucatastrophes of them all– not just resolving their bodies however, in most cases, rescuing their souls. He was not in it for Himself; He was in it for the Father’s higher glory and the sinner’s real salvation. “I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do” (John 17:4). Regretfully, Christ’s name is summoned by “faith healers” like Hinn and others whose ministries do not mirror Him.

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