{"id":544,"date":"2015-07-22T13:23:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T12:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=544"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:32:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:32:32","slug":"the-curse-of-false-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/the-curse-of-false-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of False Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"650\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/the-curse-of-false-doctrine\/dsc-0035\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg?fit=1670%2C1152&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1670,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;D5803&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1434963374&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC-0035\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg?fit=580%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-650\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"DSC-0035\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg?resize=230%2C230&amp;ssl=1 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg?resize=365%2C365&amp;ssl=1 365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC-0035-e1437679840157.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I snapped this while passing through the centre of Zomba last month. \u00a0This huge billboard overlooks the bus depot where we have had a number of very fruitful times of open-air preaching and Seed Sower\/tract distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi is awash with the destructive, demonic Word-Faith &#8220;Prosperity Gospel&#8221; which diverts attention from eternal to temporal things, and spiritual to material.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray that as we embark upon a concerted effort to reach the lost next month that the true Gospel will win many hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I snapped this while passing through the centre of Zomba last month. \u00a0This huge billboard overlooks the bus depot where we have had a number of very fruitful times of open-air preaching and Seed Sower\/tract distribution. Malawi is awash with the destructive, demonic Word-Faith &#8220;Prosperity Gospel&#8221; which diverts attention from eternal to temporal things, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Curse of False Doctrine","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-8M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/malawi-gospel-outreach-august-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":544,"position":0},"title":"Malawi Gospel Outreach &#8211; August 2015","author":"Stephen","date":"12 May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Plans for our third Gospel Outreach trip to Malawi are well underway. 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