theology?

I sent this as a text message to myself in July. I just realized that i never actually posted it.

sometimes it feels like the church is losing influence. in the changing culture that we live in, people don't necessarily want to have anything to do with Jesus. What they want is answers. I think that very few people actually believe that this is it, that we live and die and then there's nothing else to it. So i think there has go to be something wrong with the way we're presenting the gospel. In Acts, they reported having thousands of people being converted at a time. We have the same basic message that they had back then. But even huge, enormous churches in America get excited about just a few hundred salvations in a weekend. What is it that we're lacking? The world we live in is trying desperately to pretend that it isn't lonely. I think thats a key. For more and more people, the world is doing a good job pulling the wool over their eyes. We have fancy toys these days that take our mind off of reality. We have more drugs that we can medicate ourselves with. We have relationships, friends, family, maybe a happy marriage here and there.
But the reality is that none of those things can ever change the fact that everything you and i have ever experienced in this life has been flawed. Everything we have ever seen and felt has been seen and felt removed from our Creator.
The world is lonely. Not the kind of lonely that you feel when you don't have a girlfriend or when you first go to college or your parents leave you home alone for the first time. The world is lonely in a deep, tangible way, lonely in a way that we sometimes don't notice because we have never not felt it. Because the world does not offer us God, our creator and dad, the only one we can have a perfect relationship with. The only one who can make us not lonely. People don't realize that. And maybe that's on us because we don't do a good enough job telling people. It might have been easier converting Jews to Christians 2000 years ago because Jews already had half the story. They were waiting for Jesus for hundreds of years, and the Early Church just had to convince them that Jesus was who he said he was.
We face a different challenge now, where people have no idea what to believe or where to start. Back then, their challenge was to complete a theology. Our challenge starts with defining what theology is. Not too many churches that i've been in do that.