The Fate of Prosperity Gospel in Kenya

Abstract

The prosperity gospel announcement is new in religious scenery but is speedily growing at a force to be taken into consideration in Kenya. It has a greater chance of enduring beyond our contemporary society to the coming century. This is because its elements are commonly and easily acknowledged by people from all walks of life. This common acceptance can be attributed to its two main prerogatives, that is, corporeal and psychic authorisation to human nature. This study adopted a phenomenological method. The study revealed that there are so many in support of the enlargement and alliance of the gospel of prosperity in Kenya to the extent that it is no longer a Pentecostalism gospel, but also the mainstream churches have adopted it to some degree. The paper reviewed the origin and adoption of the prosperity gospel in Kenya; features of neoPentecostal prosperity gospel and factors that sustain it as well as the future of prosperity gospel in Kenya. This paper concluded that the fate of prosperity gospel could be speculated under three ideologies. That is; virtually complete decline; fluctuating endurance; and morphological evolution. Essentially, the prosperity gospel is not bad in its entirety, but what is required is a transformation of the bad elements into the right emphasis. The paper speculates that the prosperity gospel may undergo some morphological evolution to make it more suitable to the contemporary needs for it to continue being relevant in Kenya.