>>> Nominal Christians – Christians in name only — are becoming consistent with their shallow faith and are departing the church.
Not quite right... It is the churches in name only (those in charge of running them) that are shutting out Jesus.
Just the other day I had a customer ask me where I went to church. I asked him the same. He attends a church with “Christian” in it’s name. In the same conversation he explicitly denied that Jesus was the Son of God. He also repeatedly advocated same sex marriage, abortion, and democrats.
At least he paid me after I told him where I stand.
If the Christ had problems getting recognized for what He was in gospel times, why should we be surprised.
I guess we could go the whole hog and say “Here’s Jesus, God come to earth in a human body. Just love Him to the uttermost, more than any other thing, all your problems solved.” Believers would understand. Unbelievers would be incredulous because they have believed in scads of idols or things that serve as idols, they can’t imagine what faith in a holy Person would be like or that things could be that simple.