This article from the Barna Research website's been up for a few weeks now, but in case you haven't read it, it's a good read. For people who have no idea what I'm talking about, George Barna is a Christian pollster (basically a Christian version of those Gallup polls), meaning that he conducts surveys in America in regards to issues of faith. I like how the information put out is just straight and no non-sense.
Anyway, the article's in regards to what his organization points out as being 7 paradoxes of the Christian faith in America. That is, 7 common contradictions amongst American Christians.
Some of those contradictions, namely "Deceptions regarding truth" and "The contradictions regarding religious beliefs" were particularly scary to me, but the one that surprised me the most was the first one, "The success paradox." Seems to me that Barna makes a very good point in saying, "The Christian faith commends sacrifice, servanthood and sharing as the means to significance. How is it possible to have more than 120 million adults attending Christian churches on a regular basis, but only 15 million who grasp the message that success is not about personal accomplishment or material possessions?" It's time for the American church to wake up from it's sleepwalking, and take God seriously.