Jesus is in the business of divorcing people from the past. The church never identified peter as the jailed one. There are certain things that are traditional, not spiritual, that we follow at the expense of humanity. Jesus had left a church to deal with human issues and problems.
The reason why we exist is to do what Jesus would have done if he were here. Jesus works through the agent that he left, the church. The reason why we exist as a church is to show up in the cities. Problems are meant to push you to pray not to take you away from prayer.
We are chasing prestige and recognition at the expense of the mission Christ left us. Life is all about developing other lives. The reason why Jesus left a church is so as to develop other lives. Some of the hardships we go through are because we are not surviving as a church Christ wanted us.
Some of the problems, its because God is following His holy things. Strength to resist evil is best gained in aggressive service for God. To worship God is to maintain contact with the real world., and our service for Jesus begins with self denial.