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Forgive the link to Vox. I bought Ms. Bowler's book a few weeks ago and I couldn't put it down. It was raw, heart-wrenching, but beautiful -- the story of someone who knows better about the prosperity gospel but was still enticed by its promises, and the story of someone who endeavored to learn to trust Christ despite her suffering. Here's a choice excerpt from the article, but read the whole thing:

Very glad this person didn't lose her faith after being exposed to those who believe their superior faith makes them well and have more money than others...and conversely her lack of faith leaves her sick and dying.Those superior ones just haven't lived long enough yet

When you see the best of the best, who had pastored limit churches for the last 30 years of his ministry, die almost penniless, it brings into question that prosperity THEORY! A man who never wasted his nor God's money, sent money to the mission fields and fed the poor locally. Dad once bought a Buick and felt bad about it when many of his members walked to church, so he traded back down. When he died he & mama lived in a cabin on the Campground and had $750 in the bank and a car we had given him.The prosperity ministers I see would not be worthy to tie his shoes. Of course that is my opinion. I NEVER heard him envy what even some of his fellow ministers had. Dad was a prince among men, but in his mind he was always a peanut farmer and cotton mill worker, spreading the gospel. Repent and be baptized, God is Good!I sure miss him and his simple life. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/