One of my favorite pieces of irreverent humor concerns a sign outside a First United Methodist Church. The sermon titles for the coming Sunday were listed: 11:00 a.m. "Jesus: Walking on the Water"; 7:00 p.m. "Searching for Jesus."

More to the point is a news story from sometime back. It was about a 5-year-old Texas boy who was accidentally left behind at a Nashville, Tennessee, service station. Tyler Payne got out of the family station wagon to use the rest room, then couldn't get out of the building because the door had become stuck. Meanwhile, his family headed home to Texas from Tennessee where Tyler's grandparents live.

About two hours later, at a Wendy's restaurant in Jackson, his parents, five brothers and a sister noticed he was missing. Back in Nashville, a woman had heard Tyler scre…