Could one modern-day equivalent of the devil's temptation of Christ be strategies for church growth that use?

Yes. Man has taken the truths of the Father spoken through Christ and twisted the meanings to tie it to the world we live and the church's of man have become minions of the antiChrist, which has become Jesus, to those who praise him and tie it to the worlds money markets. God's true church lies within the heart and mind of those who need not the teachings or the church of man to know how to live amongst the inhabitants of this world who praise all things of this world and tie it to our Father who see's neither male or female, but only souls.