are we missing the point?

From an old myspace blog:

I don't think it was a mistake that I experienced this in Africa...

We were at a church service there, in the middle of the slum, where there are thousands and thousands of people going days without food. They had a blanket covering a piece of equipment up front. During the beginning of the service, they uncovered it with a big announcement that "our offering money helped us to buy a new and better keyboard and soundboard". This keyboard had different effects to it and background noises. They were all so happy.

That money was used to buy things for the church to use to "have better worship services" when there were starving children in the one mile radius around them.
What has America done? What are churches in America doing? We have sadly gone there and shown them the America way. We have shown them our Westernized way of doing things.

Churches are running themselves as businesses, not ministries. Unfortunately, the ripple effect is hitting other places in the community as well that could use the support of churches (I think you know what I'm talking about.) Its all about spending mega bucks on your kids ministry so you churches can get the most people in, so that in turn, more offering money will come in, so then they can use that money to buy things like better keyboards sound boards. Its a repeated cycle that never ends. Local and global missions are pushed to the side.

I was at church not too long after I returned from Africa and there was an insert in our bulletin for equipment needed... along with the prices of each item. I could not see any of those items as necessities for a church to have. A $17,000 digital sound mixer? $12,000 for screens in the sanctuary when we already have one? A leaf blower? Seriously?? Are we really that lazy. I will go rake leaves for free if it means sending that money somewhere that needs it.

Are we, as a church, the body... are we missing the point??