# ASPG

> Africa Statement on the Prosperity Gospel and Word of Faith Theology


## Posts

- [Article XIV - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-xiv-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article XIIl - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-xiil-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article XII - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-xii-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article Xl - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-xl-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article X - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-x-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article IX (Part 2) - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-ix-part-2-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article IX - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-ix-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article VIII - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-viii-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article VII - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-vii-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article VI - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-vi-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article V - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-v-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article IV - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-iv-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article III - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-iii-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article II - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-ii-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article I (Part 2) - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-i-part-2-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Article I - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/article-i-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Introduction - Africa Statement on Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/introduction-africa-statement-on-prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology/)
- [Why You Don’t Need the ‘Man of God’](https://africastatement.org/article/why-you-dont-need-the-man-of-god/): The ‘Man of God’ phrase is an expression that is very much used in the Bible.
- [Being Human, From Creation to Consummation](https://africastatement.org/article/being-human-from-creation-to-consummation-2/): These are a few visions that have been proposed for what it means to be human.
- [How to Know if Your Pastor Is Truly a Man of God: Three Marks](https://africastatement.org/article/how-to-know-if-your-pastor-is-truly-a-man-of-god-three-marks/): The title “man of God” is widely abused in the African context.
- [The T. B. Joshua Story Points to a Problem in Many Churches](https://africastatement.org/article/the-t-b-joshua-story-points-to-a-problem-in-many-churches/): The recent expose by the BBC on the late prophet T. B. Joshua is heart rending.
- [“Touch Not the Lord’s Anointed”](https://africastatement.org/article/touch-not-the-lords-anointed/): If there has been a phrase in the Bible that has been recently tortured until it confesses a lie, it is the phrase: “Touch not the Lord’s anointed.” I hear it a lot in Christian conversation today.
- [Does My Faith Guarantee Health & Wealth?](https://africastatement.org/article/does-my-faith-guarantee-health-wealth/): Does the activation of my faith guarantee health and wealth? Femi Osunnuyi looks to scripture to answer this challenging question.
- [How Do I Know if Prophecy Comes From God?](https://africastatement.org/article/how-do-i-know-if-prophecy-comes-from-god/): If someone offered to prophesy over you, many of us know what they mean.
- [A Trojan Horse in The African Church: Deliverance Ministry](https://africastatement.org/article/a-trojan-horse-in-the-african-church-deliverance-ministry/): One of the most famous ancient collections of stories in Western history is Homer’s Iliad (read it free here).
- [Charismatic Teaching Is Breeding Spiritual Havoc Across Africa](https://africastatement.org/article/charismatic-teaching-is-breeding-spiritual-havoc-across-africa/): The Zambian government is concerned about the many cases of pastors defiling girls; impregnating church members; swindling church funds; causing the death of congregants, by advising them against medical treatment; and so forth.
- [Should Christians Plead the Blood of Jesus?](https://africastatement.org/article/should-christians-plead-the-blood-of-jesus/): Growing up, I vividly remember my grandmother praying for us each time we embarked on our four-hour journey back home to Kiambu from Embu, Kenya.
- [To Survive in This World You Need a Strong Identity in Christ](https://africastatement.org/article/to-survive-in-this-world-you-need-a-strong-identity-in-christ/): The most common times for anyone to be faced with the questions about identity are at milestone points of their lives. The teenage years.
- [Who Should Lead God’s Church?](https://africastatement.org/article/who-should-lead-gods-church/): Church leaders in Africa are often elevated to an enviable, god-like status, wielding power and authority without the requisite accountability.
- [Can I Speak Against The Lord’s Anointed?](https://africastatement.org/article/can-i-speak-against-the-lords-anointed/): If you are a Christian then there is a good chance you have heard the reproach: ‘Don’t speak against the Lord’s anointed.’ You might even have received this stinging rebuke yourself, after a careless comment about some ‘man of God’.
- [Do You Have a Spiritual Father? Do You Need One?](https://africastatement.org/article/do-you-have-a-spiritual-father-do-you-need-one/): Parents are key players in their children’s lives. They help their children develop important life skills and become successful in the future.
- [True or False: What God Cannot Do Doesn’t Exist?](https://africastatement.org/article/true-or-false-what-god-cannot-do-doesnt-exist/): It’s early in the morning. There’s a sound of soft drumming, paired with gentle cymbals. A worship leader croons sweetly, encouraging you to adore the Lord.
- [A Cross-Shaped Faith for a Glory-Seeking Continent](https://africastatement.org/article/a-cross-shaped-faith-for-a-glory-seeking-continent/): Only a cross-shaped faith can transform a glory-hungry continent. The African church stands at a crossroads.
- [I’m a New Creation in Christ… What Is That?](https://africastatement.org/article/im-a-new-creation-in-christ-what-is-that/): Everyone who believes in Christ is a new creation. But what does it mean that we are a new creation? Good question.
- [Can We Speak Things into Existence? Considering Proverbs 18:21](https://africastatement.org/article/can-we-speak-things-into-existence-considering-proverbs-1821/): “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” So goes Proverbs 18:21. But what does this mean?
- [Do Miracles Still Happen? What is Their Purpose?](https://africastatement.org/article/do-miracles-still-happen-what-is-their-purpose/): Following the success of an earlier edition of his Institutes, John Calvin addressed King Frances I in the preface to a 1535 French edition.
- [How to Rejoice in Hardship and Suffering According to Peter](https://africastatement.org/article/how-to-rejoice-in-hardship-and-suffering-according-to-peter/): We can agree that being a Christian isn’t easy. No one likes to go through hardship.
- [Zeal or Hypocrisy: What’s Fuelling Our Prayers and Fasting?](https://africastatement.org/article/zeal-or-hypocrisy-whats-fuelling-our-prayers-and-fasting/): Over the last century, many churches in Zimbabwe and across Africa have increasingly embraced fasting, especially at the beginning of the year.
- [Break the Power of Sin, Not a Generational Curse](https://africastatement.org/article/break-the-power-of-sin-not-a-generational-curse/): Chronic illness, miscarriage, abuse, drug addiction, and even failing at school or university are often associated with a generational curse.
- [Don’t Settle for Less Than the Prosperity Jesus Promised](https://africastatement.org/article/dont-settle-for-less-than-the-prosperity-jesus-promised/): In my previous article we saw that prosperity gospel teachers root their claim for blessings in the Abrahamic Covenant.
- [Should We Expect to Be Slain in the Spirit?](https://africastatement.org/article/should-we-expect-to-be-slain-in-the-spirit/): In many hyper-charismatic circles, the phenomenon of being “slain in the Spirit” (also referred to as “falling under the anointing“) is the hallmark of spiritual experiences.
- [Are You Missing Out on God’s Promises of Health and Wealth?](https://africastatement.org/article/are-you-missing-out-on-gods-promises-of-health-and-wealth/): In Does God Promise Me Health, Wealth and Happiness?, Femi Adeleye offers a much-needed biblical corrective to one of the most pervasive distortions of the Christian message in Africa today—the prosperity gospel.
- [Psalm 73: Learn to Value God’s Presence Over Prosperity](https://africastatement.org/article/psalm-73-learn-to-value-gods-presence-over-prosperity/): The other day, I was using an e-hailing service to get home. Throughout the trip, my driver spoke passionately about his desire to acquire wealth.
- [Creation: God’s Image and Human Identity](https://africastatement.org/article/creation-gods-image-and-human-identity/): What does it mean to be human? The answers to this question are many and varied.
- [Stop Pastoral Self-Appointments](https://africastatement.org/article/stop-pastoral-self-appointments/): It is a well-known fact that state governments in Africa are deciding that enough is enough and are moving in to arrest the rot taking place, largely in Charismatic churches.
- [Who Is Anointed By God? What Does It Mean?](https://africastatement.org/article/who-is-anointed-by-god-what-does-it-mean/): It is not unusual to hear “Touch not the Lord’s anointed,” when someone criticises or speaks negatively about a Christian leader.
- [Interrogating the Man of God Phenomenon in Africa](https://africastatement.org/article/interrogating-the-man-of-god-phenomenon-in-africa/): In interrogating the Man of God phenomenon, perhaps we should start by asking: who is the Man of God?
- [5 Ways to Love God with All Your Mind](https://africastatement.org/article/5-ways-to-love-god-with-all-your-mind/): A pastor recently pointed out that almost every Christian experiences marked emotional swells when they sing these famous words written by Horatio Spafford.
- [Super Sunday Services: Confronting Sickness, Death and Demons](https://africastatement.org/article/super-sunday-services-confronting-sickness-death-and-demons/): Many African churches place significant emphasis in their services on casting out demons and other demonstrations of power.
- [Being Human, From Creation to Consummation](https://africastatement.org/article/being-human-from-creation-to-consummation/): These are a few visions that have been proposed for what it means to be human.
- [A Caution to Those Who Decree and Declare](https://africastatement.org/article/a-caution-to-those-who-decree-and-declare/): Over the last few decades, the practice of decreeing and declaring has spread like wildfire across Africa.
- [The Rise of TikTok Prophets](https://africastatement.org/article/the-rise-of-tiktok-prophets/): TikTok prophets are rising but is it the Holy Spirit at work, or just spiritual mimicry gone viral?
- [Can the Ancestors Take Away My Pain and Suffering?](https://africastatement.org/article/can-the-ancestors-take-away-my-pain-and-suffering/): Her husband suffered a stroke. He was confined to a wheelchair for over 20 years. They were searching for answers, like we all do.
- [Your Problem Isn’t an Evil Altar but God Is the Solution](https://africastatement.org/article/your-problem-isnt-an-evil-altar-but-god-is-the-solution/): In certain charismatic and Pentecostal movements, the concept of “breaking evil altars” holds significant sway.
- [Back to Sender: A Flawed, Dangerous Spiritual Practice](https://africastatement.org/article/back-to-sender-a-flawed-dangerous-spiritual-practice/): In many African spiritual traditions and certain Christian communities, the phrase “back to sender” is commonly used.
- [An Old Testament Theology of Prosperity](https://africastatement.org/article/an-old-testament-theology-of-prosperity/): The prosperity gospel teaches that God wants his people to be wealthy and healthy.
- [Which Spirit Are You Listening To?](https://africastatement.org/article/which-spirit-are-you-listening-to/): I am one of those people who live in their head. I’m constantly thinking, usually overthinking.
- [A Christ-Shaped Life Rather Than a Self-Shaped Gospel](https://africastatement.org/article/a-christ-shaped-life-rather-than-a-self-shaped-gospel/): In the first article of this three-part series, we confronted the glory-seeking tendencies of African Christianity by recovering Martin Luther’s biblical insight: God reveals himself not in human strength or success, but in suffering and the scandal of the cross.
- [The Distorting Power of the Prosperity Gospel](https://africastatement.org/article/the-distorting-power-of-the-prosperity-gospel/): No one wants to suffer. In my culture, and in most African cultures, suffering is seen as a sign of bad luck; or proof that you did something wrong.
- [Africa Statement on the Prosperity Gospel and Word of Faith Theology](https://africastatement.org/article/on-the-africa-statement-on-the-prosperity-gospel-and-word-of-faith-theology-pastors-talk-ep-306/)
- [Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology (Part Two)](https://africastatement.org/article/prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology-part-two/)
- [Prosperity Gospel & Word of Faith Theology (Part One)](https://africastatement.org/article/prosperity-gospel-word-of-faith-theology-part-one/)
- [Using Biblical Theology as a Safeguard Against The Prosperity Gospel](https://africastatement.org/article/using-biblical-theology-as-a-safeguard-against-the-prosperity-gospel/): One of the tools I have found useful in talking to people about their beliefs in the prosperity gospel is exegesis.
- [The Gospel – Not for Sale in Africa](https://africastatement.org/article/the-gospel-not-for-sale-in-africa/): When I first read and signed the Africa Statement on the Prosperity Gospel and the Word of Faith, my heart was filled with joy because God in His mercy had raised up faithful witnesses to declare the truth of His word with clarity and conviction.
- [Altars and Our Problems](https://africastatement.org/article/altars-and-our-problems/): In the parlance of christianity in Kenya, it is not uncommon to hear the word ‘altar’ being used.
- [You Don’t Need a Life Coach — You Need a Savior](https://africastatement.org/article/you-dont-need-a-life-coach-you-need-a-savior/): Walk through social media for five minutes, and you’ll meet the new prophets of our age. They don’t carry Bibles; they carry ring lights.
- [Defiant Hope: How Gospel Hope Fuels Our Endurance in Suffering](https://africastatement.org/article/defiant-hope-how-gospel-hope-fuels-our-endurance-in-suffering/): There are days when it takes all the strength in us simply to stand. The sky feels low, the heart heavy.
- [Happily Ever After: The Gospel’s Final Word](https://africastatement.org/article/happily-ever-after-the-gospels-final-word/): Every child knows the phrase before they can spell it.
- [True Spiritual Warfare: How the Gospel Tears Down the Real Strongholds](https://africastatement.org/article/true-spiritual-warfare-how-the-gospel-tears-down-the-real-strongholds/): The African church’s true weapon: the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- [Ordained to Suffer for His Glory](https://africastatement.org/article/ordained-to-suffer-for-his-glory/): "WE AFFIRM that suffering of various forms is a normal part of life in this fallen world.
- [Raise an Altar?  Part 2](https://africastatement.org/article/raise-an-altar-part-2/): "WE AFFIRM that in the Old Testament God revealed Himself to people in temporary altars, tabernacles, and temples.
- [Raise an Altar? Part 1](https://africastatement.org/article/raise-an-altar-part-1/): "WE AFFIRM that in the Old Testament God revealed Himself to people in temporary altars, tabernacles, and temples.
- [No Longer Cursed](https://africastatement.org/article/no-longer-cursed/): "WE AFFIRM that under God’s old covenant arrangement an Israelite who egregiously failed to uphold the terms of the covenant was liable to God’s curse.
- [Better Promises in Christ](https://africastatement.org/article/better-promises-in-christ/): "WE AFFIRM that God’s covenant with Israel in Scripture is a reflection of His real dealings with them in redemptive history.
- [You Can Understand the Bible](https://africastatement.org/article/you-can-understand-the-bible/): "WE AFFIRM that the Holy Spirit’s intended meaning in any particular passage of Scripture can be truly discerned by means of the normal conventions of grammar with respect to the genre of the text under consideration.
- [Already Blessed, Not Yet Glorified](https://africastatement.org/article/already-blessed-not-yet-glorified/): "WE AFFIRM that Jesus’s death on the cross secures for us all the blessings that conform to our salvation here and hereafter.
- [It Is TRUE, God Gives Good Gifts to His People](https://africastatement.org/article/it-is-true-god-gives-good-gifts-to-his-people/): WE AFFIRM that our Heavenly Father is good and delights to give good gifts to all His children.

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