By Olaoluwa Ajifolokun
Founder and Senior Pastor of the Foundation of Truth Assembly, Rev Abayomi Kasali has dared purveyors of prosperity gospel challenging them to provide one scripture where Jesus encouraged the acquisition of wealth.
Kasali gave the challenge in a podcast session cited online by Church Times while answering questions that bother on the prosperity message.
He said Jesus at no point preached the acquisition of wealth while insisting that material acquisition has nothing to do with the gospel of Christ “Prosperity gospel has nothing to do with the gospel of Christ,” Rev Kasali stated while explaining himself in the interview.
He said after closely examining the bible, especially the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he has not found any indication in the preaching of Jesus that he was in favour of material gains. “Jesus never spoke about the accumulation of wealth or gaining material things. Rather He cautioned against the vice of greed,”
Quoting Jesus’statement, he said, “Take heed and beware of covetousness for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things that he has”. No man can serve two masters for he will hate the one, and love the other.
Kasali who was quite forceful in his delivery said there is nowhere Jesus spoke positively about material acquisition while also describing the prosperity message as prosperity jargon. “Jesus told the people that instead of Gathering
more and more, it was preferable to part with what one has. Jesus did not go to the cross because of naira and dollars. I insist that Jesus did not speak acquisition, he spoke disposition. We don’t measure a man’s life with the things he has. Greed and God cannot work together.
Referring to those who preach material prosperity, he said, “You just rubbished the most significant aspect of our faith, the blood and body of our Lord Jesus Christ”