“Name it and claim it!” “Just have faith!” “Give and you will get!”
Catchphrases like this have convinced many Christians that trusting in God will bring health and wealth. But the gospel does not promise prosperity without pain or salvation without sanctification. Femi Adeleye draws on his wide-ranging experience as he examines the appeal and peril of this new gospel of prosperity that has made deep inroads in Africa, as well as in the West.
FEMI B. ADELEYE is the director of the Institute for Christian Impact as well as the director for Langham Preaching Africa. He previously served as the director of church partnerships for World Vision International, and before this worked with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), as regional secretary for English- and Portuguese-speaking Africa, and then as associate director for partnership and collaboration. Femi is an alumnus of Wheaton Graduate School, Illinois, USA, and the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has a PhD from Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture (ACI), Ghana. He currently serves on the international board of the Lausanne Movement and is adjunct faculty member at ACI, Ghana. Femi is married to Affy Adeleye, they are blessed with four children (Remi, Philip, Olive-Kemi, and Emmanuel), and currently live in Ghana.