People are having serious personal problems, financial problems and faith problems. But too many, way too many, are stopping at the problem and camping. Too many are seeing their brother and sister in need and not doing anything to help. And too many are seeing a problem in the Body, even in ministry, and choosing to overlook it. When these things happen, people lose heart.
People lose their faith.
They hurt and they suffer. After so much of this, others get disappointed and lazy and just plain quit caring, but it's at the expense of another. When the Church collectively acts on disappointment more than faith on a frequent basis, and when those who should be doing something are not, and some are accused when they are not guilty, after so long, God deals with the complacency. This is a scarey thought and scarey times when this takes place. We have even seen so much of it recently in the Body.