Many great books start with a great title and Will Jesus Buy Me A Double-Wide? ('Cause I Need More Room For My Plasma TV) has a great title, if ever there was one! This book was actually sold to the publisher based merely on the title before even a single word of it had been written. Like many of us, veteran writer Karen Zacharias had heard the "name it and claim it" theology being preached by some popular preachers and evangelists in this country. As a professional journalist and writer, she also followed the stories of greed characterized by the likes of Bernie Madoff and she began to see that many people had this whole "God and money" thing wrong. God is not this super "Sugar Daddy" in the sky and the "abundant life" that Jesus promises us is not measured in diamond-encrusted Rolex watches.
In each of the 19 chapters of the book, Zacharias tells the story of one person. Sometimes we learn from what they did right with money and possessions and sometimes we learn from what they did wrong. In every case, the writer helps us see the relationship between God and money just a little bit clearer and she does it by skillfully telling a story of a real but, in most cases, anonymous person.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book! As a 12 year veteran of the bookstore industry, I think I know a winner when I see one and I'm here to tell you that this book is a winner! Artfully told with wit and wisdom, Zacharias uses her down-home, common-sense style to help us see prosperity theology for what it is and she does it from a positive perspective rather than with a critical spirit.
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