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August 8th, 2007

Cash in Christ

‘Cash in Christ‘ is a show performing at the Edinburgh Fringe doing a satirical take on charismatic and prosperity doctrine Christianity. There is a song video available on Youtube entitled ‘Christian Rock is cool‘ which is quite good fun.

I haven’t seen the show, so I can’t comment on it, but the website looks a bit as if the people are trying to satirise the movement without having been part of it. I can’t blame them for that of course, but it means that in my opinion it misses the mark ever so slightly. Not that I hold up my own attempts (a few years ago now) as a particularly shining example of the genre, though we had fun doing it.

The Independent had this to say about the show. There will be some Christians who find it offensive I’m sure. The thing that makes me a bit uncomfortable is the use of ‘Christ’ in the title, but I’m not about to wave a placard about it.

Incidentally I heard about this on Bishop Alan’s blog. Bishop Alan is the Bishop of Buckingham and one of very few Church of England bishops to be blogging. It looks to me as if his is going to be a great blog – take this post as an example of good common sense thinking about current Anglican goings-on: Nigerian flying bishop for England?

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7 Responses to “Cash in Christ”


  1. Tired&Emotional says:

    I’ve always had a “thing” against the teaching of belief bringing guaranteed prosperity to all. I see no scriptural evidence to back their claim up that life becomes more prosperous after being saved. It definitely hasn’t happened to people I know. While not being poor I don’t think that many Christians I know could be considered prosperous.

    It goes hand in hand with the TV evangelists who cry out for viewers to make donations that will not only help their work but guarantee them blessings and a possible to all their ills.

    August 8th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
  2. Philip of Samaria says:

    I love dubious ministries and st ethel’s – cant you revive their work?

    August 8th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
  3. Miss Dagurreotype who would rather lay up her treasures in Heaven says:

    I caught a screening of a new documentary last Thursday at the Dallas (TX) Video Festival by Trevor Glass called Suffer the Children. (DVF20 was a wonderful five days of video, more video, and even more video! Even 1964′s Meet the Beatles.)

    Mr. Glass went to great lengths to differentiate in his documentary between real Christianity and the “word of faith movement” as he called it. The “boxing match” scene and the “I can only imagine” scene, both near the end are excellent. The first explains how the Scriptures don’t support the prosperity hearsay and the second shows some real Christianity in action.

    Here is DVF’s synopsis

    Does God want us all to be rich and healthy? Suffer the Children examines the origins and teachings of the Word of Faith movement, also known as the prosperity or health & wealth gospel. The film takes a look into the lives and teachings of some of the biggest names in tele-evangelism today including Benny Hinn, Kenneth & Gloria Copeland, Robert Tilton, Mike Murdock, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer and Hillsong Australia. Are their teachings really Christian at all?

    August 8th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
  4. Miss Dagurreotype with says:

    The official website for Suffer the Children, http://www.sufferthechildren.com/“, has a trailer of the documentary.

    August 8th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
  5. Kenneth Brownell says:

    I haven’t seen Cash for Christ and therefore can’t comment on its content. However Hillsong and other prosperity churches do set themselves up for parody. A recent visit to several such churches in London makes me embarassed to be an evangelical Christian. What struck aside from the self-indulgent ‘worship’ (ie. lots of loud singing and commentary) was that there was little if any gospel content. It was all about getting God’s blessings without any mention of Christ and the cross. If what I experienced is the best evangelical Christianity can offer things look bleak indeed in spite of all the triumphalist hype.

    August 10th, 2007 at 9:49 am
  6. ee says:

    The Blogging Bishop of Buckingham is a very, very good title. He should use it, particularly if he’s one of the bishops with a seat in the Lords (though he probably isn’t).

    August 16th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
  7. jody says:

    wow, didn’t know that hillsongs was ‘health and wealth’, didn’t get that at all when I went to the one in blackfriars (moved now I think), but I only went once, cos Darlene Zschech herself was there….

    re: the blogging bishop of buckingham – is that like the baby eating bishop of bath and wells?

    August 16th, 2007 at 6:17 pm