'...the spread of the gospel during the missionary age is so intertwined with the West's expansion through imperialism that it is almost impossible to imagine an evangelical movement that is not an empire-building enterprise, not a movement rooted in political and cultural domination, and not propagated by the power of money, business, and capitalism rather than the power of the Holy Spirit. (It is almost, but not quite, impossible to imagine such a movement; it is possible because such a movement is there in Scripture in the early church.'
Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination, p.200.
