ok, thanks for that, but now I’m confused. I thought the “prosperity gospel” schtick was preached by the likes of Creflo Dollar and other pentecostal preachers. Schuller was Dutch Reformed. Did the idea cross genres?
My understanding of Schuller is he, like many others, started out on solid footing. But as with many in the limelight they yield to the times and become far too worldly and adapt those ideas into their church programs. Often those ideas are a matter of generating funds into their coffers. The Gospel thereafter starts to get waterered down until the messages become that not of salvation or building up the membership in the things of Christ and knowlede of Him, but of bringing ways and means to the people to keep the happy faces returning for the next dose of “positive thinking”. The focus moves to the contentment of the people and the church being the source of that contentment rather than on Christ. IMO.