Fighting for the True Gospel in Africa

为非洲的真福音而战

Although the gospel is embraced in many places in Africa, it is often mixed with superstition and apostasy. One church is helping to counter the heresy with truth.

虽然福音遍及非洲的很多地方，但却常常与迷信和背教混杂在一起。有一个教会正在开始帮助信徒用真理来对付异端。

Charles Karuri, a pastoral assistant at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of those helping to promote the true gospel.

Charles Karuri是肯尼亚内罗毕以马内利浸信会的牧师助理，他也是帮助提高纯正福音的一员。

Karuri said the “prosperity gospel” is prevalent in Africa and “apostles” or “prophets” often promise supernatural healing, or claim to be able to reverse bad fortune, restore marriages, and break curses.

Karuri说“成功神学”在非洲非常流行，“使徒”和“先知”总是承诺超自然的医治，或是宣告有反转坏命运、修复婚姻、废除咒诅的能力。

“These are the very things the witch doctor back in the village had been doing long before the prosperity message arrived on our shores,” Karuri said.

“而这些正是在成功神学传到我们这里很久之前，村子里的巫师所做的。”Karuri说。

“Those that faithfully preach the gospel continue to be less and less the face of Christianity as they are overtaken by numerically superior, flashier, noisier, and more outwardly successful prosperity churches,” he added.

他还补充道：“信实的传讲福音的教会越来越少，有真正信仰的基督徒也逐渐被追求数量、华丽、嘈杂和外在成功的神学所替代。”

Karuri’s church is one of the few working to counter the false gospel with the true gospel. One resource they are using is a book titled Prosperity? Seeking the True Gospel.

Karuri的教会是少数致力于扭转错误福音的教会。他们所用的材料之一是名为《成功？寻求真正福音》的书。

The Gospel Coalition notes, “The book helps believers understand and address the issue of false teaching and the prosperity gospel in particular.”

福音联盟称，“这本书特别针对虚假教导与成功神学，可以帮助信徒很好的明白其中的问题。”

There are other churches in Africa that also see a problem with the kind of prosperity gospel theology so prevalent there and are undertaking similar work to teach the true gospel.

非洲还有其他的教会，也在面对类似流行的成功神学的问题，他们也在做同样的教导真理的工作。

Veronica Neffinger | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com | Friday, March 17, 2017