WOF is truly an Americanized version of Christianity. According to the captialistic system, and indeed the American preoccupation with all things financial, success is measured according to how much a person has in their savings or checking accounts, their retirement funds, the size of their homes, and the type of cars that they drive. WOF buys directly into all of this. "God wants you wealthy!" is the mantra stated by any number of these ministries. If you are not wealthy, the believer is often told, it is the person's own fault for lack of faith. The same dynamic is found when when seeks healing, too: if you are not healed, it is because of secret sin, unrepented lifestyles, or a simple lack of faith.
Ask yourself this: If God truly works according to a 30 fold, 60 fold, or 100 fold return on gifts given to Him, why don't these same ministries simply give away all of their assets in order to get 100 times that back? I mean, if this pyramid-scheme of a doctrine is true, and those gaining all of those contributions are honest, they would never again have to ask for money if they simply followed their own teachings. Jesse DuPlantis wouldn't have to whine about not having the two jet aircraft he wants; hell, he needs to just give away the airplanes he DOES have (or some other asset), and Bingo! Jesse would not have to plague the rest of us with his pleas. This holds true for the rest of these shell-game thieves, too, for they are the ones who benefit, not those from whom money is extorted.
Although I posted this elsewhere, consider this simple mathematical formula when considering the whole "100-fold return" that is being taught:
Let's say that on Day 1 you feel genuinely moved of God to give $100. According to the formula, God will return to you $10,000.
Let's then say that on Day 2, again with full faith, you give the entire $10,000 God just blessed you with back to Him (let's say via Kenneth Copeland). According to the formula, God is required to give back to you the amount of $1 million.
Same thing on Day 3: You give God the $1 million back to a ministry in full agreement spiritually and mentally and God then returns to you the amount of $100 million.
On Day 4, giving God the glory and thanks, you again give God back the $100 million with which He just blessed you. God then has to return to you $10 billion.
The following day, Day 5, you give back to God the $10 billion, rejoicing in the blessings He has shown. God then returns to you $1 trillion.
On Day 6, in obedience to the Most High, you give Him the $1 trillion. God then responds by giving you $100 trillion.
By the end of a single week one person--if this formula nonsense is true--one person, mind you, owns all of the wealth and resources on planet Earth. What about all of the others, then, who are naming and claiming out there? Are they just out of luck?
Truly, WOF teaching is nonsense of the first order--or more directly put, absolute baloney--and yet millions world-wide are throwing away money to increase the accounts of the ministries in question, many of those givers on fixed incomes, too.
So again I state what should be obvious: Let these Word of Faith ministries that push this doctrine simply give away all that they have. If they do so, God will multiply back to them 100 fold and these people will never again have to bother begging for funds.
Or could it be that the WOF ministries know it is a sham, and to do so would kill the goose that lays the golden egg?
To this writer at least, it is time for Christ to again clean out the temple of the money-changers, the Name-It-And-Claim-It crowd, and those victimizing the weak and hurting for their own gain. Or at least for Christian believers to open their eyes, quit being suckered, and ask questions. What are your thoughts on this article?
Thanks to the exwofers.blogspot.com website for this article.