Lee Grady wrote in an article entitled “Cosmetic Christianity” in the July, 2004 issue (page six) of Charisma Magazine that:
Recently a pastor posed that question, expecting me to tell him about some new church-growth method. He was dumbfounded by my answer: “Yeah, I’m noticing that more Christians are getting plastic surgery.”
The rest of the short article discusses one prominent charismatic church (unidentified) where all the women on staff–and the wives of all the pastors–have had breast-enhancement surgery and one male evangelist paid for expensive chest implants because he couldn’t grow big enogh pectoral muscles from his weight-lifting routine.
Grady sums it up with this statement:
I admit I’m concerned. If the preacher is plastic, what does that tell us about his preaching?
Are we going back into the ‘Stepford Wife, blond-hair, blue-eyed Christianity’ that permeated the 1980’s?
Tragic indeed.
I have two comments.
1) What the church in this country (USA) does NOT understand is that if we continue to be as shallow as the world…we will NOT change the world.
2)Also, I am wondering WHY the women had all of this done? Could it be the men fell into the “Playboy” trap of wanting the perfect woman?