"When “God wants me to be happy” becomes the measuring stick for making decisions, we have fallen for a counterfeit. The tragedy of the therapeutic gospel is that it affirms the wrong concepts with the right words. God does want us to be happy, but not in a way defined by twenty-first-century American culture. God’s desire for our joy goes beyond the Happy Meal...
Trevin Wax, Counterfeit GospelsThe therapeutic gospel ultimately fails to satisfy because it switches out the great reward of knowing God with the lesser reward of receiving something from God. God’s good gifts are intended to lead us to Him. Our goal is not to receive a reward from God; it’s to receive God himself! The saddest result of the therapeutic gospel is that it produces disciples who are more interested in the gifts than the Giver...The therapeutic gospel makes grace expected. The biblical gospel makes grace amazing."