I don’t attend a particular church, but have visited friends’ churches. The Prosperity message really upsets me—if you’re good, you’re rewarded with money. If you’re poor, you must’ve done something wrong to displease God. It’s horrible. I know many poor people who are extremely kind and wonderful and know too many cruel people with money. I also feel like the Prosperity message gives some people who have been blessed with wealth justification to scoff and turn away from those who are suffering, because they must’ve brought it upon themselves. It thoroughly sickens me.
The way I see it—we’re given gifts in this life and lessons to learn; for some, it might be money but for others it might be something else- tolerance, drive, luck, ability to connect with people, etc. Gifts are there to use, to create, to enable growth—nobody has all the gifts, and nobody has no gift at all.
For Disney’s take, start listening to lyrics at 1:12