So begins a new week of episodes with John Piper on the Aspects of John podcast, thanks

for listening.

Pesor, John, we have an email from a listener named Kai Tam, Pesor, John, how do you

practically and lovingly lead your loved ones who are steeped in the prosperity gospel

all their lives back to the true gospel?

I come from Malaysia in Singapore, places immersed in prosperity gospel theology.

I understand that in Second Timothy, Paul says there will come such days as these where

people will gather for themselves teachers that suit their own passions.

But what if these are your close friends and family whom you love so much?

How do you teach or love or rebuke or reprove them?

I'm training for ministry in Melbourne.

One day I will go back to Singapore, God willing to preach and pastor there and I know

as Paul advised I should preach in every season being ready to rebuke, reprove and exhort.

So what does this look like in a culture of so steeped in the prosperity gospel?

Just yesterday I was writing an article about these days being the best of times and the

worst of times and one of the evidences of it being the worst of times that I mentioned

has to do with the so-called prosperity gospel.

I wrote, I have watched the rise of enormous churches and ministries who preach and export

to poor nations a prosperity quote gospel unquote that mutes the Bible teaching on suffering

and reduces the glorious gospel to earthly betterment rooted in human attitudes, not the

glory of Calvary.

That was my sentence that I wrote down and there are three criticisms and I want to just

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