Every week someone needs to know that they matter and your hug and word of hope lets them know that God loves them. When we stay at home on Sunday morning the church struggles and is not all that it could be. This new age heresy that says that I can be a good Christian and not attend church puts the church body on crutches. The church can survive on crutches, but it hobbles along. When the church hobbles along our community suffers, righteousness is overshadowed by darkness.
Christians grow cold and stumble and fall.
When people grow careless in their responsibilities toward other believers, passion for Christ begins to die, lost people no longer matter to us and our focus turns inward. We lose the zeal of the church triumphant. People who finish life well give high priority to regular church attendance. They give of themselves so that others become majestic trees of righteousness who finish life well. They sacrifice so that the church doors will always be open in their city.