Perhaps the most glaring corruption of the New Testament gospel in the modern evangelical movement is its apparent blindness to Jesus' warnings about wealth. Instead, evangelicals have accepted modern cultural assumptions, more akin to the Old Testament than the New, that wealth and accumulation are signs of God's favor. How else can we interpret the existence of large, comfortable, modern facilities with every conceivable convenience led by multi-staff professionals paid on a tiered system based on the corporate model? The implicit, if not explicit, message conveyed by these super churches is that God favors American Christians over Christians of other countries and, more specifically, that God favors the large over the small, the rich over the poor, and the politically powerful over the weak. If the answer to these charges is the typical response that the trappings of success and grandeur are necessary to attract modern church-goers and that only by the expenditure of large sums can large sums be raised, then evangelicals have already conceded the poverty of their own spirituality.