What’s the use of worshipping material wealth?

SIR — It is sad that several Ugandan pastors are down on their knees worshipping material possessions.
This attitude belies the lack of theological depth in appreciation of what the Christian faith stands for. Jesus had a fundamental option for the poor, the sick, the sinners and those unjustly treated.
These formed the core of his mission.
His mission was to emancipate them from their appaling situations through, first and foremost, the rejection of sin in all its manifestations.
The attitude of over-identification with the rich and powerful of this world, was certainly not part of Christ’s agenda and neither should it form the agenda of an authentic Christian leader today.
Of what spiritual value is a Hummer vehicle worth millions of shillings, or a sprawling multimillion mansion for a pastor when the majority of God’s people lack the basic necessities of food, health, shelter and clothing?
What example are our ‘spiritual’ leaders giving to our ‘earthly’ politicians?
It is fallacious to think that material success is always a measure of spiritual success. Certainly an amount of material detachment has immense spiritual value.
Much as it is not biblical to identify immense material poverty with spiritual success, it is also not scriptural to use material success as a measure of spiritual success.

The Rev Silvestre Bukenya Southwark, England