{"id":6765,"date":"2010-03-11T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/11\/will-jesus-buy-me-a-double-wide\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:50:46","slug":"will-jesus-buy-me-a-double-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/11\/will-jesus-buy-me-a-double-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I may be biased toward Southern writers, and I may be biased because I\u2019m a fan of Karen Spears Zacharias, but the truth of the story is this: her next book, Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?: (\u2018Cause I Need More Room for My Plasma TV)<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>, needs to be read by twentysomethings and by pastors and by anyone who is struggling with thinking \u201cblessing\u201d means \u201cmaterial things.\u201d Or as she puts it: \u201cthere\u2019s a built-in audience for golden-calf theology.\u201d The book examines the Health and Wealth Gospel, the Prosperity Gospel, or whatever you might call it.<\/p>\n

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What are your thoughts about the prosperity gospel? How do you explain the correlation of blessings (understood often enough in material terms in the Bible) and obedience?<\/b>\n
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Karen was placed on this earth to tell stories, and this book is filled with stories \u2014 both uplifting and offputting \u2014 about Americans who are making their way in this world. What this book really is is an old-fashioned expose of greed and of humans so bent on their own satisfaction that they\u2019ll bend God to fit their own portrait. There\u2019s a place for detached analysis, and there\u2019s a place to tell the stories of those making decisions about life on the basis of what the relationship of faith and the material world \u2026 and Karen tells us stories.<\/div>\n
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She makes her points, like this: \u201cmoney should be a vehicle, not a destination.\u201d\u00a0Or this: \u201cBut companies, even Fortune 500 Companies, are made from mist. Sometimes, it grows so thick you can\u2019t see anything else, but then, lickety-quick, everything you work for can all be gone with the snap of a finger or the bullet from a gun.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The hardest thing about blogging about Karen\u2019s books is that stories are impossible to summarize, so let me mention that she\u2019s traveled all over the place probing into people\u2019s businesses and hearts and she tells the stories. Not many names, just characters: The Evangelist, The Mayor, The Ambassador, The Lawyer, The Veteran, The Beautician, The Preacher, and my favorite The Entrepreneur.<\/div>\n
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She\u2019s got blurbs from Paul Young and Jeff Foxworthy, and a foreword from Steve Brown and Susan Isaacs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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