Sometimes full of false doctrine. No one to tell them, Stop. The great benefit of having a church to raise your sights. All are priests. Lay people are the key.
Growth takes dedication.
Paul Harvey once spoke about a 73 year old man who was rescued by friends, just in the nick of time. He had been being pinned beneath his tractor longer than Jonah was in the belly of the great fish. Although his ordeal took place during a driving rain in a terrible storm, the four days and nights cost him only the amputation of one leg below the knee. It could have cost him his life - and would have, too, if his friends hadn't come looking. Not showing up for the least attended service on the church calendar caused those who knew him to realize something must be drastically wrong.