This would be like a man who says he loves a girl and they get married. After the wedding his lifestyle stays the same as when he was a bachelor: he hung out with his male friends, partied, when he wasn't at work he spent his leisure time on the golf course, and came home to his wife at all hours. He felt no obligation to help with the domestic chores. After she gave birth to a child his behavior didn't change. He was no more interested in being a parent than he was in being a husband.

Some of the mainline Protestant denominations have departed from their apostolic faith in recent years. Resolutions affirming Jesus Christ as Son of God and Savior of the world have failed to command a majority in their national conventions. The focus of interest has moved to other agendas than missionary work. Can you say that many in those denominations have lost their faith in Christ? Why has this drift in belief occurred?

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. (The Erik Erikson Reader, ed. Robert Coles, p.192)

When someone decides they simply can't live with the pressure of appearing to be perfect, they drop out of church altogether. They know they'll never measure up to the perfection club, so they stop trying.
Somehow church has become a place where we don't want to hear about real issues or relevant struggles or sins we've been dealing with all week long. (Perry Noble, Overwhelmed, Winning the War Against Worry, p.30f.)