Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis, and this is Dialin. In this episode, I sit down with my friend and brother Kosti Hinn.

He's the pastor of Shepard's House in Phoenix, Arizona area, and also the president and founder of For the Gospel Ministries, of which I'm a contributor.

And I asked Kosti to tell us a little bit about the prosperity gospel movement.

Kosti's experience as the nephew of renowned prosperity preacher

Benny Hinn provides a unique catalyst for him to tell us biblically how we're to look at the

prosperity gospel movement, but also how even those within biblically conservative gospel-saturated

context can become dangerously close to what Kosti calls prosperity light.

You're going to enjoy this episode.

Let's dial in.

Gosti, thanks so much for sitting down.

I want everyone just to hear a little bit of your background and your story because I want to ask you about the prosperity gospel.

Maybe some people have an idea of the term, but have less understanding of what that actually means and how it's infiltrating.

Many of the, you know, much of the way that people approach the Christian faith today.

So would you tell us just a little bit of your story and then extrapolate that until explaining what the prosperity gospel is?

Yeah. So backstory grew up in a prosperity gospel family, so to speak. I'll just sort of use

some layman's terms here. In the center of the prosperity gospel world, I had an uncle who is like a famous televangelist on TV.

If people don't know what that is, it's like the guy that's on the nightly TV program.

You're rich!

Yes, fancy suit.

He used to wave his jacket around and try to heal people, knock them over.

And the idea is this. We're super blessed.

We're super anointed. We're really powerful religious leaders. And we've got this understanding

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