A Question Asked in Sincerity

I am going to offer some observations and then I'm going to ask a question. I would be interested in your answer to the question.

Over the past few weeks, I have read most of the notes in which I have been tagged or which have come across my home page on FaceBook. The scope of topics is actually pretty amazing. Of course, many of the people who post I don't know personally since I've met many only on FaceBook and many who comment I don't know at all because they're not in my "friends list" but comment on the same post that I'm reading.
Sometimes I post an opinion, but more often than not I follow the threads with a great deal of interest sprinkled with the occasional amusement and not too infrequently a tinge of sadness at the shallowness I seen expressed from time to time. For the past couple of weeks I have not responded to any thread more than a time or two, but have followed several very interesting threads with great curiosity. I must add that those who post and those who comment are from a wide spectrum of backgrounds and experiences spread out around the globe. Yet regardless of those facts I see a striking similarity among Christians around the globe, regardless of their cultural, ethnic, or religious history. During the course of "following" some of these threads I have come to some conclusions which I offer now without judgment or condemnation, but simply observations offered without a great deal of comment:

1. I see a predisposition among believers to hunger for what "I" want over what God wants. In discussions regarding various streams, moves of God, anointing, healing, prophecy, church leadership and polity, etc., it should be noted that the word "I" is used far more frequently than the word "God."

2. There is a similar predisposition for allowing truth to be defined by ones particular experience rather than the written Word of God (canon) or at least a willingness to allow personal experience to be elevated to a level more equal to the logos.

3. There is a very real sense from some who have removed themselves from the "organized church" to cast themselves in a spiritually superior light, as if by simply leaving the church they have attained some elevated and more purified state of grace or revelation.

4. Because of the abuses of some (leadership), many have allowed themselves to be possessed by a general suspicion regarding any form of church leadership, spiritual authority, seeming to prefer some type of spiritualized anarchy in which "every man does that which is right in his own eyes."

5. Because of the deadness that has been prevalent in much of the church for so long, and the hunger for a reality of experience in which I can feel God as well as know God, many have become less than judicious regarding spiritual experience, considering that even an ingenuous spiritual experience is better than no experience, causing men to accept without prejudice anything that has the flavor of a spiritual reality.

Now my question: If God were to shut up the heavens from now until Jesus comes; no prophecy, no healing, no revival. If He did not lift His hand to defend His people, but allowed them to be persecuted without restraint - beheaded, burned at the stake, crucified and sawn in half. If we had to watch our children starve to death or our children forced to watch their parents dragged off to prison or executed before their eyes; If there were no longer any prophetic words to encourage us, no miraculous healing to excite us, no profound manifestations to broadcast over the airways. If our church buildings were bulldozed to the ground and our Bibles burned in bonfires, if our apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers were cast into prison or marched before the firing squad. If this were our lot until the Day Jesus appears in the Easter sky; would you.................could you remain faithful?