I have found myself feeling just like your church community.
I also add whenever I can that getting a decent guy in the WH is a step but not a solution. Another step is the COS preferably the one proposed by CSG. I call those offensive “top-down” measures (trying to fix the feds form the top - tough).
But there’s also individual states who can and should RIGHT NOW decide to reject and nullify unconstitutional federal acts like Obamacare and minimum wage for example. I call that defensive bottoms-up measures the states should implement to protect their citizens from federal tryanny.
IMO, all of the above would be helpful. We need to cut the $4 trillion beast down to its constitutional size which is about $800 billion - so cutting about $3 trillion. Not a five-minute job.
I love the idea of reducing the budget and my and all our taxes, but where would you cut to get us to $800 billion when the full (not base) military budget is almost $600 billion. Here are some useful graphs for people who want to tackle this challenge.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2013/president-obamas-fiscal-year-2014-budget/