prosperity gospel

John Gray, a pastor of Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, is unapologetic about using personal funds to buy his wife an extravagant anniversary present.
“The blood of all these people that you have sucked [and on which] you have lived, is a cry to the Lord, it is a cry of justice."
When I say that my material fortune is the result of God's blessing, it reduces The Almighty to some sort of sky-bound, wish-granting fairy who spends his days randomly bestowing cars and cash upon his followers.
When I was a kid I could tell the difference between the kids who wanted to be my friend from the kids who were my friends so that they could play with my toys. Joel and Joyce are the latter. They preach a twisted form of Christianity that teaches obedience, giving and faith as a way to get things from God.