By the time the acoustic worship band started strumming its third hymn, Kezli Cook was face down and crying into a faded chartreuse carpet. In the nearby rows, a kneeling mom tried futilely to wrangle a gang of grade-schoolers as they darted from row to row, a fortysomething man in a short-sleeved button-down snored, and a weeping woman begged Jesus to cover the room in his blood. Once Cook, a 28-year-old event planner, composed herself enough to stand, she joined roughly twenty other congregants who’d traveled from College Station in blessing a man they now encircled, praying that the Lord would grant guidance, love, and grace. “Jesus!” the acoustic band chanted, joined now by the man who had been sleeping. “JESUS!” At first glance, the scene…
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