Those who don’t attend church regularly are commonly referred to as “marginal” believers by the initiated. But I suspect otherwise.
I wonder whether they are onto something that we, the good little boys and girls who go to church like we’re supposed to, don’t yet understand.
What I suspect they are onto is that life does not take place at church. At church, life is merely talked about. They (we?) are weary of the talk. And so they go where life is lived—with family, hard at work, harder at play. Which, of course, means they are not at church.
Instead of labeling them as less than faithful believers, I wonder what we could be learning.
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