May it not be one of the consequences of this, that so many of you are a generation of triflers; triflers with God, with one another, and with your own souls?

For, how few of you spend, from one week to another, a single hour in private prayer!

How few have any thought of God in the general tenor of your conversation!

Who of you is in any degree acquainted with the work of his Spirit, his supernatural work in the souls of [human beings]?

—- John Wesley, Sermon 4, “Scriptural Christianity”