The church is a body of people that have God's life in them. God's purpose is to take these people, as with the picture of the stones in the temple in the Old Testament, and build them together. And as they are built together, they will corporately begin to express something of the image of God. The more God works His life into a group of people, the more He will invest His authority in them. The church is a body.
Every member is important.
Every member has a part of that divine life in them. It takes the riches of Christ expressed through all the members for the manifold wisdom of God to be revealed. When the church assembles together, that is the place where the body comes together under her living Head, to be supplied with His divine life, and then God can be expressed visibly on the earth. When the church assembles together, that is the place where the body comes together under her living Head, to be supplied with His divine life. It's an interesting thing to observe, but one of the ways a religion is judged is by its meetings.