Trump’s Christian Outreach Targets Prosperity Gospel Preachers, Says Russell Moore

Heavy-hitting Pentecostals and other heavy-hitting evangelicals surrounded Donald Trump in prayer at a private meeting Paula White arranged earlier this week. Charisma News posted an exclusive video of Kenneth Copeland praying for the business-man-turned-politician.

But not all conservative Christians appreciate Trump’s strategy. 

“The people that Trump has so far identified as his evangelical outreach are mostly prosperity gospel types, which are considered by mainstream evangelicals to be heretics,” Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, told Politico.

“Trump seems to be positioning himself as a secular version of the health-and-wealth televangelists. … What Donald Trump is doing in terms of promises for the future is very similar to what’s going on among these prosperity gospel hawkers.”