Tag: Cycle of Prosperity
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Prosperity: The Mission of God
The mission of God is not to get people saved. Now that I likely have your attention, let me also acknowledge that getting people saved is an essential piece of God's present work in the world. However, we must view God's mission from God's vantage point rather than ours. Failure to do so inevitably results…
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Prosperity: Shalom Lost
Clearly, shalom does not prevail in the world today. That brings us to the portion of the biblical narrative that follows Genesis 2. Genesis 3 tells us how shalom was lost. A serpent engaged Eve in conversation, asking her if God really said she may not eat from any tree in the garden (knowing full…
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Prosperity: Shalom
What do we mean by the word shalom? We typically equate shalom with the English word "peace." Unfortunately, we often insufficiently equate peace to the absence of war or anxiety. Shalom means so much more. Here are just a few ways shalom is used in the Old Testament. The words representing shalom are in bold.…
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Cycle of Prosperity: Introduction
Christians have a paradoxical mission. We are to be working for the greatest shalom possible in the world with the full realization that perfect shalom will not be achieved until the consummation of the new creation. We are to tell of Jesus and what God is doing in the world. Peter exhorted, in 1 Peter…
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MEC: The Cycle of Prosperity
We have seen that there has been a sharp rise in prosperity as measured by health and longevity and in terms of income. All this has come in an era when the world population has grown more than 600%. Economist Robert Fogel attributes this to technophysio evolution. Indur M. Goklany, in his recent book The…