Our Secret Heresy Revealed

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[your.sydneyanglicans.net] 1 Dec 2007--One of the easiest temptations for this pewsitter to give into is smugness. When you have something to feel superior about. smugness is easy. Fellow Pewsitters might share one of the more common Sydney Anglicanism smugnesses with me. Here’s a clue in one word: “Hillsong”. Or more accurately, two words: “prosperity gospel”.

That is the idea that God will bless good Christians with material goods, that faith and obedience will be rewarded in dollars. Or that the more you give away, the more you will get. Yep, most Pewsitters are smugly gladdened by the awareness that we reject this way of thinking. But as Sydney Anglican Pewsitters we do have our own form of seeking prosperity. We don’t see it as a gospel and we don’t think much about it, we just do it.