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1 | IS there any answers out there? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 98523 | ||
mommapbs - My wife has just read Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life" and put it on the huge stack of required reading for me. She reads everything she gets her hands on and keeps adding to the stack of books that I "simply must" read. I'm hopelessly behind and have long since abandoned hope of ever being able to wade through all those books. Just today she began "The Prayer of Jabez." That's where I draw the line! I don't intend to read it, although I know it will end up on the stack of my required reading. I've been a fairly dedicated reader all my life and have read a great deal indeed. But I can't keep up with my dear wife Dottie, bookworm extraordinaire! --Hank | ||||||
2 | IS there any answers out there? | NT general Archive 1 | Radioman2 | 98623 | ||
'The Prayer of Jabez, a book based on a passage in the Old Testament , has sold four million copies in America with the message that greed is Godly It is a message that has struck a welcome chord with both well-to-do and cash-strapped Americans: greediness is next to Godliness. That is why a slim volume has sold four million copies - even more, in some states, than Bridget Jones's Diary. 'The Prayer of Jabez has been the publishing sensation of the year, which is unusual for a work of biblical exposition - especially one that deals with Chronicles, a stretch of the Old Testament as arid and hard to cross as the Gobi Desert. 'Of course, there is a gimmick: Jabez prayed for more cows, more sheep and more land; and by updating his prayer, modern Americans believe they will get more money. 'It has worked for the author, Bruce H. Wilkinson, an Atlanta evangelist whose organisation ''Walk Thru the Bible'' has grown steadily for the past 30 years: he claims it is represented in 40 countries.' Please Lord, make me rich, The Times (England), May 10, 2001 ____________________ (www.apologeticsindex.org/p12.html) --Radioman2 |
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3 | IS there any answers out there? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 98626 | ||
Radioman - During my forty years in the insurance industry, I always marveled at the sheer numbers of books, tapes, and conferences designed to show the young insurance salesman how to strike it rich quick in the insurance business. If there was so much gold to be mined from the sale of insurance, as they claimed, then why were these writers and lecturers wasting their valuable time telling others how to do it instead of being out there in the gold mine with their picks digging with all their might for the gold themselves? I always taught my agents to put down their get-rich-quick books and go out and see the people. I told them no one ever learned to ride a bicycle by reading about it. ..... Same goes for the religious self-help genre of books and TV circuses. Why aren't the teachers of the gospel of prosperity coughing up their own seed-faith dollars instead of begging their poor disciples to send dollars to them? If they can guarantee a hundred-fold return on their disciples' seed-faith dollars, why then can't they cast their own bread upon the waters with equally astonishing returns? The prayer of Jabez produces abundant wealth to be sure, provided, that is, that you write a crummy little book about it and are lucky enough to see it become a phenomenal best-seller. --Hank | ||||||
4 | IS there any answers out there? | NT general Archive 1 | mkm9 | 98756 | ||
Hi hank-please see my response to Radioman--This is the thing---the book may be totally wrong--but it is from scripture--God had a reason for including it--our job is to seek Him not just to object to it's misuse. What did He mean by including it? | ||||||
5 | IS there any answers out there? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 98759 | ||
mkm9 - It is not the scriptural account that is the subject of unfavorable criticism. It is the book which, like other books of the "gospel of prosperty" genre, profane the sacred and pander to human greed. --Hank | ||||||
6 | IS there any answers out there? | NT general Archive 1 | mkm9 | 98781 | ||
Hi Hank-of course it is the secular book and it's pandering to greed that rightfully comes under critism--My point is that God included it for His reasons and I was lead to it to learn that His "coasts" are people not land-if I ask for my "territory or coasts" to be expanded-I must understand that it means one thing to Him and another thing to people--our misuse of His word doesn't mean we should ignore His word---so go to His word and let Him deal with those who come from greed those having "itiching ears"--I don't mean this as some admonition-I have been on this site long enough to know you will go to the word--I just think we pay too much attention to the worlds book at times--in Him mkm9 | ||||||