bye bye Jesus?

It is hard to go to a clergy meeting or conference these days without someone telling you that the Church of England is in decline, that we will not have enough clergy in ten years even to maintain our current levels of meagre and miserable existence and that parish share (money paid to the diocese) is crippling the local church vitality and economy.
What happened to the Good News?
The facts and figures are there and some of them are tough to deal with but we cannot simply fall into a slump and give up. Recently I went on a conference which encourage us to think (and most were clergy) how many people we were in touch with in a week - the numbers are huge - many weeks I am talking, leading worship for and preaching to over 500 people (this includes a church school) and probably have informal contact with between 100 and 200 others. I suspect most clergy would have no trouble getting the contact number over 100 and many, many would get numbers much higher - we have fingers in lots of pies.
And that is just the clergy. Figure it out.....if you have 100 people in church on Sunday and each of them meet or talk too only 10 people outside the Church in a week....that is a thousand. The likelihood is most of them are meeting many more.
But what are we doing with that - are we living as those who are messengers of Christ or are our batteries a bit dead, are we despondent and just hoping that the C of E will survive long enough to see us through the system.
Jesus started from a lot less that the million or so people who pass through our doors on a regular or irregular basis. Over two thirds of the population would claim some parlance with Christianity - or at least a familiarity and comfort with the idea of believing in God. So what is our problem?
Just because things are changing, just because the Church cannot stay Victorian (and this is mostly the model which is stuck in our heads - nothing a lot older) do we give up and let the Gospel of Jesus Christ become and irrelevance.
But that is the point - it won't, because it can't. God is in creation and the stones will cry out if we don't. Good News is Good News and we have plenty of chance to share it. Enthusiasm is not a bad word?