I purposely decided to address the American problem first since so many seem to follow both our good and bad examples.

May God bless your ministry and the Indonesian Church.

I would say “AMEN” too. As a matter of fact, we are facing the same problem as well in Indonesia.

Last month i attended Asian Pentecostal Society (APS) meeting in Surabaya, and was asked/assigned to read Dr. Matthew Clark’s article because he couldn’t come to Indonesia. You know what, he wrote also out of his deep concern on Pentecostal leadership nowadays. It has the same tone with what you have in this post. he basically said that modern Pentecostals have been doing a form of “syncretism” in many areas of leadership. One of them is “the acceptance by many church leaders that the dominant paradigms of consumerism and of media and celebrity culture can simply be adopted (some even term it “sanctified”) by the church in its operations and liturgies.”

When i read it in the meeting, the participants all were smiling because this article is so provocative and, of course, true. If you are interested to read this article, just drop me an email. I would love to send you. Just for you to know, it will be published in the next issue of Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies (AJPS).

Anyway, I really enjoy reading your blog. Thanks for commenting my post on “Open Theism”. I would love to discuss this issue further with you. God bless you

AMEN!