Society of today did not become a more easy one.
Although there exist several new communication techniques such as sms, chatting and e-mail, to deal with one another and to speak with others is becoming more and more difficult. A great lot of people live terribly lonely lives.
The number of depressions is increasing, mental institutions never were as crowded as they are now... Inner rest is a thing only very few people do still know.
Even the progression of medical science cannot assure that suffering and death will be banished from our lives. Each time we have a new therapy, some new disease will turn up somewhere...
To many affections science does not have an answer.
When people lose their hope, they don't want to live on any longer.
Faith starts with hope. The local church is potentially the most influencial power on planet earth. Church is given by God to be a place of deliverance, liberation, healing and recovery... a place where people love one another in spite of their shortcomings, and where they can become really happy.
Our God is a God of hope... for Him, nothing is impossible!