Ministering to the Church in America

"How difficult it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"

In general, is the church in America, "the rich man"?  Are we so rich, having everything we want and needing nothing that, like the Church in Laodicea we have become neither hot nor cold?  Will we be "spit out of Christ's mouth"?

How then should we minister to the church in America?  

1. For my account, I can no longer nurture the true-life-sapping attitude that it is somehow okay for congregations to be thinking about making vast expenditures on bricks and mortar -- too many real needs exist, calling out for our time and financial resources.
   
2. Neither do I find it loving my fellow brothers and sisters by encouraging them to (or standing by idly while they) acquire more and more material goods -- putting their trust in them, while I wholly believe that all this material wealth will soon pass away -- not just in the second coming of our Lord... but sooner yet in the coming economic meltdown 

Contrarily... what does it mean that, "with man, it is impossible, but with God, all things are possible"?

Abundance or Scarcity

Can God be more effective in reaching his beloved children in a "land of plentiful" or a nation "suffering" circumstances that bring about scarcity?

One of my favorite areas to peruse though I'm neither an expert (far from that) nor am I speaking as a prophet.  Just seems to me like the economic times being experienced these days by developed nations may easily be thought a signal of "preparations", a shaking of anything that can be shaken so that which cannot, will provide a clear beacon to the billions displaced by the shaking.  What say you?