This week’s Time cover story, “Does God Want You To Be Rich? [1]” (on the prosperity gospel that’s so popular in America today), is very well done throughout, but the most telling part is this quote by Stephen Prothero:
Indeed, a last-gasp resistance to this embrace of wealth and comfort can be observed in the current evangelical brawl over whether comfortable megachurches (like Osteen’s and Warren’s) with pumped-up day-care centers and high-tech amenities represent a slide from glorifying an all-powerful God to asking what custom color you would prefer he paint your pews. “The tragedy is that Christianity has become a yes-man for the culture,” says Boston University’s Prothero.
The truth in that statement should chill all Christians to the bone.