“Why do the Christ-centered spiritual movements in the East and developing world seem so much more vibrant than the church in the west? I found an inverse correlation between material possessions and spiritual vitality; the poorer the people and the less they relied on things money could buy, the more vibrant their spirituality. The more a group relied on dedicated buildings, professional clergy, sophisticated programs, and other religious accessories, the less spiritually alive they were. In the area of religion, less is more.”
[The Way of Jesus, Jonathan S. Campbell, p.16]