Facts On ---- False Teaching In The Church -- Chapter Fifteen

    Without the slightest hesitation we may say the health and wealth gospel of positive confession is a blight upon the church. It is a perverted gospel of cheap grace which reverses biblical values, produces fear and spiritual bondage or intimidation, holds out false promises, leads to false guilt and despair, in some people produces apostasy and in others results in personal tragedy.
    For example, like Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses, some Christian parents accepting the faith teaching have let their own children die by withholding from them life-saving medication. They have done this under the mistaken assumption that in spite of evidence to the contrary their child was divinely healed. Thus, to continue to give them medication would supposedly be a "lack of faith" in their divine healing. Does anyone need to be told that teachings which cause the deaths of others are not godly, no matter how godly they sound?
    The problem and destruction already wrought by these teachings is considerable, yet thousands of churches and millions of Christians continue to support these "ministries," while godly ministries suffer for lack of support. Why would some Christians continue to supply the very funds without which these ministries could not exist? Put simply, because they are promised what they want to believe. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths" (2 Timothy 4:3, 4).