Just one more anonymous whatchamacallit off the assembly line. And your job may disappear in tomorrow's cutbacks, and the future looks barren. The meaninglessness of modern life causes lovers to turn into strangers, it turns the future into silent resentment, and you dread going home. Our children will go their own way, we don't necessarily expect them work in the same profession we worked in, and we cannot expect that they will live the same kind of life. No, they will find their own way.
Most people just stay home from church.
They don't feel that going to church will make a difference. They have left the church because, like Abram, the good old time religion is leaving them barren and lifeless. Instead of blaming them, we need to listen to them, and we need to provide an answer for their barrenness. And there is an answer. If we will follow God into that strange country, the Christian church can be the one place in this barren, lifeless society where our lives do matter, where we really do make a difference.