>>This is a disturbing trend. How do we go about reversing it?
Nothing new here. The distractions are different, but this has been a problem since the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. Man learned to “rationally” decide that God was disinterested, then unnecessary, then a psychological construct, and finally a work of fiction.
As another poster pointed out: De-feminize the church! That means throwing out weak Arminian theology of a God that is pining away waiting for us to call him. God is a creator, a royal builder, and can speak a universe into and out of creation. Christians are his heirs. We need theology that stands on that basic truth.
There can be a Great Awakening if God so chooses. He can reverse this trend as he did in 1740. He did it then to awaken the spirit of freedom and the knowledge that there is no such thing as earthly nobility. He gave the people in a certain place and at a certain time the confidence, as heirs to the kingdom of God, that we can throw off our Kings and Queens and rule ourselves on this earth.
But, as scripture tells us, there will be a falling away in the end times. The next Great Awakening may not come until Jesus himself brings it with him.
Until then, the elect must remain ever faithful. Jonathan Edwards put it very well in his first two Resolutions:
Resolution 1: I will live my life for God.
Resolution 2: If no one else does, I still will.
I see many millennials attending apostate, Laodicean, emergent, new age, lukewarm mega-churches that offer nothing but entertainment, self-help and pop psychology.