What is a culture of prosperity? Focusing our faith heavily on prosperity can have some pretty nasty effects. The most debilitating is a skewed outlook on sowing seed. Instead of focusing on the command and joy of giving, the focus of prospering turns to “the getting.” Before long we forget why it was so important to give in the first place.
At the heart of human redemption is the principle of seed sowing…the seed of God sowed into humanity. “No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God (1 John 3:9).” There can be no redemption for anything or anyone without the sowing of seed. Seed sowing brings to life something that was otherwise dead. So then, the farmer plants seed not so that he can be rich, but so that life can be born out of that which was once dead to him.
Not understanding this principle is debilitating. Misunderstanding it brings perversion.
