Interestingly, the people who do go to church tend to ask this question much more frequently than those who have stopped going. The blunt truth is that as long as church is somewhere we go in order to do instead of something we are in order to be, there is little or no point in going to church... other than to make us hungry for the real thing.

Christianity cannot suggest embracing the gospel without entering into spiritual community: one simply could not exist without the other.