Does the thought ever occur to anyone that maybe the reason so many people only attend church on holidays is not just because they are “sin-loving, God-haters” but maybe year after year they see the “best” program the church can offer and leave thinking there is no reason for me to be a part of this “thing” the other 50 or so weeks a year?

I mean let’s say the church was a business. Each year that business gets an opportunity to fill it’s capacity with customers for one day to try to make them regulars and every year they fail to do so. How long before the investors in that business start re-evaluating the product and delivery of that product? How long before they close the doors of that business? With the church, however, they just continue to blame the customers every year for not buying into the product.

In our arrogance, we Christians continue to discount the indifference of this generation to our message as “their” problem and we never once stop and take this phenomenon of easter only attenders as an opportunity to evaluate ourselves and what we are doing wrong. The problem is never us, it’s always them, an attitude embraced by the same group of people who crucified Jesus.