The Need to Address Alternative and New Religious Movements

The prosperity gospel has in fact come under a "new" name! At first, it was very difficult to detect the false teaching of the prosperity gospel because of what it promised by it relying upon the promises of God. The promises of God's Word are based upon many of the scriptural quotations that many Faith leaders utilize so as to appear that God wants His people to experience the abundance of prosperity (Matt. 6:33; Jn. 10:10; 3 John 2). Many times the prosperity gospel and those who are proponents of this "brazen" gospel seek to interpret the biblical narrative of the Bible to fit within the cultural contours of Faith theology. Whenever there is a distortion of biblical truth it can adversely impact the lives of those who are under the Faith leader influence and teaching (2 Tim. 3:13). Also, whenever the prosperity gospel and its proponents seek to interpret the promises of God based upon the scripture is that it turn the Bible on its own head by which to put w

"And I say also unto thee, "That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matt. 16:18) There is an attack upon the church today! When I talk about the church I am making reference to those who have been regenerated by the work of the Holy Spirit by which the Spirit indwells that of believers (1 Cor. 12:12-13). The church is not some denomination, synod, or even an non-traditional institution but believers who are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ that constitute the true church. There are variations and meaning of what the church is throughout various religious and theological traditions. For example we have the Roman Catholic church who consider itself as a true visible church by which the pope is the official position of Roman Catholicism by which in order for followers of such Roman tradition can understand the Vulgate language through the Pope end and of itself. The ap