this is a warm, comfortable, functionally convenient place to assemble together with one’s friends. Let us go back to the main reasons people cite for leaving church. They say that what goes on at church is boring and irrelevant. I have trouble understanding that. When we open the Bible and read the record of people who had encounters with the living God, we see the whole gamut of human emotions being expressed. Some people weep, some people cry out in fear and terror, and some quake and tremble.