clipped from www.inafarplace.com

In Latin America as well as many African countries, evangelical
stats now include a hybrid of charismatic Pentecostalism termed
by some as renewalists. These teachings exported from the U.S.
during the 1970’s and 80’s are now producing celebrity
preachers and religious superstars that draw millions toward
hope in material wealth and miracles of all sorts. Through media,
mega gatherings, and temples open seven days a week, health-
wealth ministries manipulate millions of extremely desperate
people. This misplaced hope eventually leads to more
disappointment because our basic problem is not the lack of
health or wealth, as hard as that may be to see when you have

neither.

Today, when one says he is an evangélico it is
far more confusing than defining. There is no doubt that
evangelicals are having a major identity crisis. Most of the
gargantuan religious growth in Brazil is not evangelical at all
under the classical definition of the term.