Costi W. Hinn is the teaching pastor of Shepherd’s House Bible Church in Chandler, Arizona, and founder and president of For the Gospel, a resource ministry that provides sound doctrine for everyday people. He has authored several books and coauthored multiple children’s titles with his wife, Christyne. Costi and Christyne are the parents of six children.
Hinn (Defining Deception), the nephew of Israeli Christian
televangelist Benny Hinn, rails in this convincing, vociferous work
against the 'health and wealth' theology of prosperity gospel
preachers as anti-Christian, exploitative, and abusive. Part
memoir, part critique of prosperity gospel theology, Hinn's candid
work delves into his childhood and young adulthood within the
family's ministry. He then explores his first inklings of doubt at
Dallas Baptist University and his subsequent rejection of his role
as 'the next great anointed healer' when he is forced to choose
between his family and his fiancand eacute;e, who feels she must
hide her asthma because Hinn's family made her feel as if 'sickness
is not allowed in [his] home.' Hinn rebuilds his spiritual life and
ministry within a more mainstream, conservative evangelical faith
and, in the book's final chapters, offers a theological critique of
prosperity gospel practices, suggestions for a moderated
understanding of God's role in human well-being, and thoughts on
how to reach out to family and friends who believe the prosperity
gospel message. Hinn's testimony will be most meaningful to
Christians who have grown up in but are skeptical of the prosperity
tradition.
*Publishers Weekly*
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