We have a question from Matt in Houston, Texas.

Recently, Pastor John, you spoke on the Prosperity Gospel.

I'm moving to Africa at the end of this year to be a missionary in Zambia.

The Prosperity Gospel is on every street corner there.

It's ingrained in the people.

Africans don't deny the spiritual world like many Americans do.

They just want to know who is more powerful, Satan, or Jesus.

And the Prosperity Gospel is one way of saying Jesus is.

So the question is this, how would you encourage someone to address the Prosperity Gospel

errors in a spiritual power-based nation like many of those in Africa?

You will run off the bat.

The more I think about this, and I think about it a lot because everywhere I go, I run

into it.

The more I think about this, the more I realize prosperity preachers are not preaching

a very powerful Christ.

They're not.

He's not nearly powerful enough, not nearly sovereign enough over Satan.

So let me see if I can get at this.

The way I approach this is not to tear down the positive claims of the Prosperity Gospel,

but to present the parts of the Bible that they leave out and show them that the glory

of Christ and the greatness of Christ and the power of Christ and the superior worship

of Christ is more clearly displayed when these texts are taken seriously.

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