Sentence examples for teaching prosperity from inspiring English sources

Oral Roberts began teaching prosperity theology in 1947.

In the 2000s, churches teaching prosperity theology saw significant growth in the Third World.

Kirbyjon Caldwell, pastor of a Methodist mega-church, supports a theology of abundant life, teaching prosperity for the whole human being, which he sees as a path to combating poverty.

By 2006, three of the four largest congregations in the United States were teaching prosperity theology, and Joel Osteen has been credited with spreading it outside of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement through his books, which have sold over 4 million copies.

"Reverend Ike teaches prosperity," said Carlos Mena, the building's administrative manager, as he stood in the grand foyer, known as the Promenade of Jewels, surrounded by lusciously bulbous columns, cusped arches and elephantine newel posts.

In a conversation with HuffPost Live, Obery Hendricks, professor of Biblical interpretation at New York Theological Seminary, calls Dollar's teaching the "prosperity anti-gospel".

Wallace asks Joel if he's just a "motivational speaker" teaching a "prosperity gospel," and he basically says yeah, sort of, but also not?

In 1980, the General Council of the Assemblies of God criticized the doctrine of positive confession, noting examples of negative confessions in the Bible (where Biblical figures express fears and doubts) that had positive results and contrasting these examples with the focus on positive confessions taught by prosperity theology.

The prosperity teaching later figured prominently in the Word of Faith movement and 1980s televangelism.

And each of them is tugging on important matters that are hard to define, never mind measure or predict: academic freedom, institutional autonomy, teaching quality, employability, innovation and prosperity.

Prosperity theology teaches that the Bible has promised prosperity for believers, so positive confession means that believers are speaking in faith what God has already spoken about them.