Experience tells us that many people remain in lifeless churches because they desire the security of familiar faces more than they desire the truth of God. Consider the fact that most people never move any further than 50 miles away from where they were born. Even those who come from homes filled with abuse and neglect tend to gravitate back to the same kind of home later in their lives. Children of neglect, divorce, abuse, and substance abuse become the fathers and mothers of the next generation. Even those in the prison are mostly repeat offenders simply because they are more familiar with prison life than they are with freedom.
Most believers live lives of quiet desperation instead of seeking to live life deliberately.
We despise change. We work all day, go home, watch television, collapse in bed and start all over again the next day. Our lives become a chain of bondage. This is certainly not sinful, but this kind of life-style is not the life of Christ and can keep us from God. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.