So I have a question for you. Do you believe in the prosperity gospel? If you're a conservative

Christian or a reform Christian, you're probably going to say no, of course, no. That's ridiculous.

I don't believe that God's going to bless me physically and financially and give me influence based

upon my faith or my seed gift towards him. I don't believe in that kind of transactional faith.

And that's good. And this podcast isn't necessarily for those who believe

in the prosperity gospel. It's actually for the Reformed and Christian. Hear me out. The idea of

the prosperity gospel doesn't just stop with physical or financial blessing. We allow it to actually

creep in to our everyday life without even knowing it.

So what I did today is I wrote down some questions to help us expose where the concept of

the prosperity gospel, also known as pietism, can easily seep into our faith.

And to start affecting our joy, the way in which we treat one another, how we can, don't have rest,

we don't have satisfaction in Christ anymore because, well, our faith has become transactional.

We believe God moves towards or away based upon how we're performing.

So hopefully this would be helpful for you.

Stay tuned.

This is the moment in our episode where we take a moment and we turn our

hearts and our minds towards Christ. Let's look to Christ. There's a quiet kind of exhaustion

that settles into the soul, not the weariness of a long week, but the heaviness of feeling

like you have to make life work, that you have to be the strong one, the steady one, the one who gets it right.

Many Christians won't say this out loud, but inside they live with that constant low-grade fear.

What if I'm not good enough for God?

What if I disappoint him?

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