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Ephesians 4:11-14 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

You find one that teaches the word of God, not the doctrines of men, and equips people to go out and make disciples as we are commanded.

Why go?

Because we are commanded to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, not because we are threatened with hellfire if we don't go every Sunday.

We go for Christian fellowship, edification, teaching, preaching, worship, cause you want to be with fellow believers.

Church is good and helpful and we can flounder on our own, but it's not necessary by any means for salvation.

For my part, I suspect that the NT believers would not recognize what we do today as *church*. I don't think churches today bear much resemblance to how believers in the NT conducted themselves.