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Where does it say that we're to organize and obtain 501(c)3 status in order to be considered a "church?" That is the creation of man

It doesn't. As I've said in another post in this thread, the church is defined as God and His people. Nothing more, nothing less.

This thing about the megachurches closing sends the wrong message to a world that is moving towards a secular Christmas as fast as it can. No one is making anyone go to services on Sunday. If you plan to be with your family, I don't think there is anything wrong with that in principle. I guess since most of the people I've met who say 'I don't need a church building to be close to God' are the same ones coming out of the stip bar on Saturday night has led me to associate 'Don't Need Church to Worship' with 'I want to live the way I want but look good doing it'.

I can't tell you that any sin has been comitted by canceling Sunday services because I don't know. But I don't think it was smart, and while we are not of the world, we are in the world and it is watching. When, in the church, we do things like this it makes people think 'well, the Christians really aren't any different than we are'. When the world starts saying that stuff, we should sit up and take note, because something is probably wrong.

'I don't need a church building to be close to God'

I do take offense to that. My church doesn't even have a building. We meet at a local school. It cost too much money for us to afford a building. We are in San Jose, California, and it cost over a million dollars just to buy a house.

We've even lost our school several summers. One year, we had to meet at another church on Saturday night. We almost didn't have that, so we were thinking of just meeting at local parks on Sunday mornings.

In California, it is very hard to find truly devoted Christians. I've been to a number of churches, and I found them either promoting the homosexual agenda or the other extreme promoting operation rescue and very hate oriented.

The church that I am with now is full of very nice people that are more into real service than anything else. They'd rather spend money helping other people than buying a building to hold services.