Usually they insist that the miraculous debt cancellation will occur only if a person gives right now, as if the anointing for this miracle suddenly evaporates after the prime time viewing hour.
Many evangelists who appear on Christian television today use this bogus claim. He wrote in The Midas Touch: There is not one bit of Scripture I know about that validates such a practice. Hagin was perplexed by ministers who promise supernatural debt cancellation to those who give in certain offerings. Preachers who claim to have a debt-breaking anointing should not be trusted. Hagin did the math and figured out that if this bizarre notion were true, we would have Christians walking around with not billions or trillions of dollars, but quadrillions of dollars He rejected the popular teaching that a believer should claim a specific monetary payback rate. The hundredfold return is not a biblical concept.
Hagin rejected this idea and said that focusing on what you are going to receive corrupts the very attitude of our giving nature. It is not biblical to name your seed in an offering.įaith preachers sometimes tell donors that when they give in an offering they should claim a specific benefit to get a blessing in return. He denounced those who link giving to getting, especially those who give cars to get new cars or who give suits to get new suits. Hagin was critical of those who try to make the offering plate some kind of heavenly vending machine. People should never give in order to get. Material wealth can be connected to the blessings of God or it can be totally disconnected from the blessings of God. Hagin wrote: If wealth alone were a sign of spirituality, then drug traffickers and crime bosses would be spiritual giants. Here are a few of the points Hagin made in The Midas Touch: 1. The Midas Touch was published in 2000, a year after the infamous Tulsa meeting.īut in light of the recent controversy over prosperity doctrines, it might be a good idea to dust it off and read it again. In fact, he wrote a brutally honest book to address his concerns.
He was not happy that some of his followers were manipulating the Bible to support what he viewed as greed and selfish indulgence. But before he died in 2003 and left his Rhema Bible Training Center in the hands of his son, Kenneth Hagin Jr., he summoned many of his colleagues to Tulsa to rebuke them for distorting his message.
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