WHY PEOPLE QUIT CHURCH
A few thoughts printed in an article which appeared Monday in the Washington Times:

"The most common reason people leave church, Mr. Rainer says, is that it's too similar to their everyday lives. They are searching for a spiritual community, radically different from their workaday environment, that demands a higher commitment.

"Or, says the Rev. Allison Moore, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Fort Lee, N.J., churchgoers fail to connect with the message.

"'One person I knew just found they were continually spacing out,'" she said. "'They had gone to church with their young child for six months, but realized one Sunday they weren't paying attention and they stopped going.'

"Neither parent nor child particularly missed the weekly ritual once it ended, she added."