Give church another chance!

You may be someone who likes to get up on Sunday mornings and catch the early football games, or go off to a morning round of golf, or maybe just sleep in a little bit later and read the Sunday paper over your cup of coffee. Perhaps you’ve watched your neighbors drive off to church, and you’ve wondered, “Why would anybody want to get up early on a Sunday morning and go to church?”

For most of us, it’s because we’ve found something exciting and even unexpected. We were expecting to find that God was mad at us and waiting to punish us. To the contrary, we found that the Creator of the universe l...