...my garages runneth over... Its the theological doctrine of American culture... The prosperity gospel started as a fringe doctrine in the black church. It was pioneered by Rev. Ike, a prosperity televangelist with a pompadour who boasted during his heyday in the 1970s that my garages runneth over. Jonathan Walton, author of Watch This! Televangelism and African American Religious Culture, says that although people may have chuckled at Ikes flamboyance, his theology exerts more influence in the modern black church than Kings. King got the glory and the history books, but ... [Ike has] got the numbers, said Walton, who is also an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside. Walton, the University of California scholar, says contemporary black churchgoers have now embraced another mission: equal access to wealth. Its the theological doctrine of American culture, he said. cnn/2008/US/04/06/mlk.role.church/index.html?iref=nextin. .
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