Prosperity Gospel Exposed: Deceiving the Flock, Damaging the Faith

In the sun-drenched city of Groves, Mississippi, five megachurches cast long shadows across the skyline - and even longer ones across the lives of those who sit inside them.

Bishop Roland Deveraux commands a congregation of six thousand with a signature phrase and an open hand: When you sow into this ministry, God opens a window that no man can shut. Pastor Garrison Moultrie inspires thousands with feel-good sermons, bestselling books, and a carefully curated image of abundance - while conducting a secret affair with a married woman on his worship team. Pastor Clifton Abrams uses Greek and Hebrew terminology to dress up a doctrine that calls the poor covenant breakers and wealth the only proof of God's favor - all while drowning in $800,000 of personal debt he has kept hidden from his deacons. Pastor Damon Price runs a social media empire and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars at weekend conferences through prophetic offerings - while his marriage collapses and a vulnerable widow in his church believes his manipulation is love. And Pastor Solomon Kaine, the eldest and most revered of them all, has made a science of spiritual guilt - calling out specific dollar amounts from the pulpit and claiming God told him who needs to give.

Behind the marquee signs and luxury vehicles, real people pay a devastating price.

Charlene Dupree is a nursing assistant raising three children on $28,000 a year who has given over $22,000 to her church in six years - and is being evicted. Deacon Earl Simmons has drained his retirement account and taken out payday loans to keep his tithe current. Sister Paulette Graves is a hospice nurse whose chronic illness worsened because her church told her that seeking medical care was a sign of unbelief. Brother Thomas Hicks borrowed money on a credit card to sow a business breakthrough seed that never produced a harvest. Marcus and Tanya Webb gave their last $800 at a conference the same month they lost their home to foreclosure.

Then the reckoning comes. An IRS inquiry. A journalist with financial records. An affair exposed at a men's conference. A teenager who dies of a preventable illness - and a family that calls a lawyer.

Some of these men will break. Some will weep. Some will open their Bibles for the first time in years - not to find a sermon, but to find themselves.

And some will not stop.

Prosperity Gospel Exposed is a searing, compassionate, and ultimately redemptive novel about what happens when the church mistakes the offering plate for the gospel - and what it costs the people who believed.