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  I’ve been a pastor long enough to notice something interesting about church attendance. Sometimes we treat church like a punch clock. We show up three or four Sundays in a row and apparently think,  Well, that ought to cover me until Christmas. Punch in. Punch out.  See you in six months. Okay, I’m having a little fun with it, but you know what I mean. Somewhere along the way, church went from being a lifestyle decision to being a weekly decision. Every Sunday morning we wake up and hold a family meeting with ourselves. Are we going today? How tired am I? What’s the weather like? Did we stay up too late last night? Do the kids want to go? Is there something else happening? Is the Packer game at noon? Okay, that last one might actually be considered an emergency here in Wisconsin. But seriously, when did being part of a church family become something we decide from week to week? Now before somebody gets upset with me, let me say this clearly: There ar...