The Basements

 I admire churches, not so much for what goes on upstairs, but for what goes on downstairs, in the basement rooms.  Addiction recovery meetings of one sort or another go on there, mostly alcohol addiction.  The church is told that these people will never be cured, but they can go into remission if they do certain things including the meetings.  So the church gives one of the members a key to open up, set up, clean up, and close up.  There is no other church guard or front desk person around.  The church has entrusted their physical property to crazy people, insane people, spiritual toddlers, to the use of church stuff.  And it works.  Some of these addicts may eventually go upstairs, but the meetings are not convert work of the church upstairs.  It is once desperate, lonely, selfish, bizarre behavior people, now recovering by helping  the newly desperate one.  It works if you work it.