Regional maturity?

Daniel Hames looks at the church universal and asks these questions:

Is the church of the south (and the east) more spiritually mature (and spiritually earnest), even in its relative poverty? Is the church in the west too comfortable, smug, and self-reliant? I need not have bothered asking those questions- I could have made them statements.

The fact is that en mass, the church in the west is riddled with biblical and theological illiteracy despite all our seminaries and millions of meetings, conferences, and organisations; we lack discernment despite all the well-known leaders who draw crowds; we're prone to shallow fads and trends despite the richness of the history that stretches behind us.

Don't believe? The article is full of examples.