Something as personal as Faith needs no public gathering.
God built us to be social creatures and share and spread our faith. Not sit alone in a room and pray :)
Jesus Christ is God and He founded a church. The Faith is not just “personal” -— if by that you individual, interior and solitary.
It is INTER-Personal. In every sense, every step of the way.
When two or more are gathered in His name, He is there. Yes, Jesus said Our Father is pleased when we pray to Him privately, but the disciples and Apostles achieved so much more when in pairs and grouped together.
Do you know even why this country exists?
“Something as personal as Faith needs no public gathering.”
Participation in what is now called a “faith community” is good on many levels.
Not biblical:
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.