Churches have made it easy to be a Christian  - when the truth is, there's nothing easy about being a CHRISTian. It's not a comfortable life. You're required to sacrifice, you'll labor, you'll sweat - you'll spend your time, your money, your very life on behalf of those God leads you to - BUT  - in most churches all that's required is that you show up at their services endlessly  - week after week after week - you don't ever go forth and come back rejoicing,  reporting to the Lord like the disciples did - they don't even send you out so that you can build an a book of amazing testimonies of your own, no, all they require is that you show up, sit down and listen, mostly. Some offer works of service,  which, of course, is good but most of these "works" don't require any real sacrifice  and if you really want to serve Christ and become HIS disciple, not man's,  you're gonna suffer - a lot.