“Paul challenged the gods of the city of Ephesus (Acts 19:26), which led to such an alteration in the spending patterns of new converts that it changed the local economy. That in turn touched off a riot led by local merchants. Contemporary observers have often noted that modern Christians are just as materialistic as everyone else in our culture. Could this be because of preaching of the gospel does not, like Saint Paul’s, include the exposure of our culture’s counterfeit gods?”
-Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods (New York, NY: Dutton, 2009), 167.
