The western church is asleep. The Great Resignation from the false churches is proof of that fact.

People are gathering in buildings, but the church is dead. For believers, it's like living in Siberia. The false church is disintegrating and the Great Resignation is in progress. Polynesian celestial navigation provides us an analogy for how we can endure to the end.

Romans 8:28 has been mistranslated. It should not be used as a platitude to mollify someone who is suffering.

Romans 8:28 should be rendered, "God works all things together with those who love him". N.T. Wright says Romans 8:28 has often been mistranslated. And it's silly to use it as a platitude to mollify those who are suffering.