The next time you enter a Christian bookstore, see how long it takes you to be distracted from buying a serious theological book which will edify you (if they even have any in the store anymore) in favor of buying something tangential, like a game or a praise CD or a gizmo or a piece of jewelry or a set of greeting cards or a huge bejewled cross or a birdhouse or … anyway, the tangential things are seeded around the store like sirens. The mixture of money and faith usually ends up being tragic if one is not careful.Īnd now we see not just greed and interest in personal wealth climbing to stratospheric proportions but the faithful actually being made merchandise out of. Simon the Sorcerer tried to buy the Holy Spirit. The Rich Young Man refused to believe in the Messiah who was standing in front of Him, in favor of the property he owned far off. Ananias and Sapphira became the first Christians in the Church killed for their hypocrisy and it was over the money they’d held back and lying about it. Jesus was righteously wrathful over the merchandising of faith in the Temple, and cleansed it with a whip. Money tends to corrupt faith and the faithful. We can see the devastating fulfillment of this prophecy any time we go to a Christian bookstore, especially a Lifeway store. It literally means “I travel as a merchant, engage in trade I traffic in, make gain or business of”. The Greek word for ‘merchandise’ is emporeuomai, from which we get the word emporium, or mall. I always use the KJV for this verse because the language is more descriptive. “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. I continue to look toward my go-to prophecy, which I believe is being fulfilled in accelerating train style each day, What is the most tragic thing on this page? The fact that such a “game” exists? Yes that’s tragic but…the fact that there exists a five-star review? Yes, that is bad also, but…the fact that even 7 years after this game was published it is still popular enough to have “ONLY 1 LEFT IN STOCK”?!?! We have a winner. Augustine’s “Hungry, Hungry Bishop of Hippo” set a standard to which Osteen can only dream. This game doesn’t have the same style as those of the Reformation and even earlier. This person wrote a hilariously sarcastic review, This game gives us a great example of what is wrong with the prosperity gospel. He ignores the fact that God’s primary purpose for us is to make the glory of God known to the world, and instead, Joel promotes an idea that loving God will result in making more money. Joel has popularized a gospel message that promises an easy, comfortable, and prosperous lifestyle to the Christian. This was bought as a joke gift for a friend.
A person named David Harrison wrote a review of the game on Amazon,
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