MinistryWatch’s Warren Cole Smith’s comments on one or more stories in the week’s news.
Prosperity Gospel on Steroids. I started hearing about David Oyedepo a few years ago, as I was doing research for a trip to Liberia to cover the Ebola crisis. He founded a church in Nigeria in 1981 that has come to be called The Winner’s Chapel. It is now in about 150 countries and claims 6 million members. At least 30 U.S. cities now have Winner’s Chapel churches.
When I heard that two of David Oyedepo’s sons are now here in the United States leading churches here, and when I learned that one of those U.S. churches was in my hometown of Charlotte, N.C., I thought it was finally time to take a closer look. Kim Roberts wrote an excellent profile for MinistryWatch here….
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Closing King’s College Would Be A Tragic Loss. It looks like the closure of The King’s College in New York City is all but inevitable, and that will be a huge loss for the city, and for American evangelicalism.
We and others have written extensively about King’s in recent months, so I won’t rehearse the story here.
Research: Word of Faith/Prosperity Gospel
CRN’s homepage contains a list of professing Christians to keep an eye on. Scroll down to WARNING. The list contains those to mark and avoid (Rom 16:17-18) such as Kenneth Copeland
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