What I mean by the ‘prosperity gospel’ is a teaching that aims to make believers healthy and wealthy in this life, while it overlooks or minimizes the dangers of wealth, the biblical call to a wartime mindset, and the necessity and purposes of suffering…the first thing we should say about the prosperity gospel is that wealthy westerners are probably as guilty of its excesses as are the poor in the global south. The difference is that the poor don’t have wealth and want it, while the rich have it, expect to keep it, and get angry if God takes it.