Some of you dear friends have rubbed shoulders with prosperity preachers and teaching. Never believe them again. The texts they use are an outrage. The texts they quote to justify their chasing after riches and wealth and making absurd promises to their congregations – if their congregations give them lots of money, they will get lots of blessing from the Lord and so on. Those texts are an outrage. Those verses are not speaking about those things.
There was a large church in the USA where they did a survey in the locality and asked, ‘What sort of church do you want?’ When they got the answer they built such a church and it was so successful that the leader of this church had several tours of the UK, and Bible believers were falling over themselves to ask, ‘How did you do it? Tell us how.’ Oh that we could be in a church where there is no chance of doing this.