The Day of Epiphany

The Texas-based pastor Matt Chandler spent a decade working with teenagers, and during that time, he realized how a specific change takes place between sixth graders and ninth graders. As Chandler says, if you stick a hundred sixth-grade boys together for three days, by day three the whole place smells like sweat and whatever cheap body spray they dumped on themselves.

But once they hit ninth grade? Total transformation. Now these same boys are actually showering and doing their hair. All of a sudden they care about what…