I have been a Christian for most of my life, and in that time I’ve met a number of people who had a profound effect on my faith. One of them was a young man from my Sunday school group. We never knew each other well, he would mostly stay on the margins of weekly gatherings, but we did talk occasionally. The last time I saw him, he had been absent from our meetings for several months. When I pressed him to see if anything was wrong, he gave a long sigh and said he was just, “Tired of the Church.”

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