Substitutes for God's Power

Substitutes for God's power in the evangelical community typically take some or all of the following forms:
1) emphasis on personality and charisma in leadership and preaching
2) utilization of political means to achieve spiritual/moral results
3) media savvy
Because success is measured in numbers of adherents rather than moral effect on society the evangelical community assumes its methods are working and therefore ordained of God and legitimate. Achievement, therefore, becomes a materialistic rather than moral enterprise. Society may be impressed by the sheer size of super churches but not transformed by the message. Individual lives may be positively affected but society as a whole goes on about its business, seeing in the evangelical movement only positive re-enforcement for its own materialistic emphasis and dependence.