He is Not Our Servant: We Are Shepherds of God's Creations, and Not Mere Money Changers

ISBN-13: 9781517274184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 170 str.

Rufus O. Jimerson; Dr Rufus O. Jimerson

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The purpose of this book is to describe, examine, critique, and challenge the Gospel of Wealth preached by the prosperity ministry that is so popular today among televangelists and megachurches. The book points out how the prosperity gospel is a complete distortion of the message and life of Jesus Christ. The quest for self-service wealth led by moneychangers is a rewrite of the New Testament that contradicts the expressed will of God. This thesis is supported by specific scriptures quoted and interpretations. Pope Francis is highlighted as challenging the distorted prosperity gospel. The foremost victims of the prosperity gospel appear to be the "Stockholm syndrome" captivated African-Americans. They hold 1/20th of the wealth and 56 percent of the family income of their white peers, besides an unemployment rate that is 3 times greater. Rather than donate to their personal and collective development, they are spending their limited resources on buying luxury homes, cars, jets, etc., on prosperity preachers. These preachers have sold them on "blessing for sale" from God through them with an exponential return in money, wealth, and luxuries. This Ponzi scheme is further impoverishing African-Americans and other low-income groups that are the most devoid of wealth. This book argues that African-Americans and other underprivileged groups must liberate themselves by acknowledging the truth regarding the prosperity gospel, its preachers and ethnocentric distortions of Christianity. At this point, they must redirect their resources and focus toward their personal and collective development. The book claims that the ruling class has made the image of God, Jesus, Disciples, authors of the Bible, Saints, Popes and all leaders of Christianity like themselves "white, Aryan, and European." The image is of those that have conquered the Holy Lands since the fall of Africa's 10,000 year hegemony across the Northeast subcontinent (renamed the Middle East) and Asia and have stolen the legacy of civilization and religion established by the African ancestors of Sub-Saharan and Africans in Diaspora (African-Americans and Asians). The book points out that the leaders of early Christianity prior to the African slavery and colonization within the last 500 years were black-skinned with Africoid features according to the Europeans of the Western and Eastern Holy Roman Empires. The book argues that the misinterpretations and ethnocentrism of the prosperity gospel has nearly destroyed the mentality and self-determination of many African-Americans of faith. Getting and giving donations at the altar of the self-serving preachers who use this money to live a life of excessive consumption, materialism and luxury while the lot of the congregation and community is under resourced. This quest for riches has led to drug sells, misuse, and other vices that permeate all segments of our society and particularly prey on the least among us.