I don't doubt that the average American church-goer finds church quite burdensome. If it isn't entertaining and/or edifying, then it should be scrapped. But let this anecdote from Spurgeon's autobiography change your mind on how to attend to the Word of God.
When he was a boy Spurgeon once asked a godly woman, "Why do you go to such a place?" referring to the church of poor quality that she attended. She replied, "Because there is no other place to go to worship." She went on to explain, "You will see a hen scratching over a pile of dung to get a piece of corn, and when it is had her spirit is warmed. That is how I treat the church. I scratch over all the dung to find the grain of truth. When I find it my spirit is warmed."
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