Why is church not important any more?

Hebrews 10
22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

 23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

 24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

 25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Look at these verses a moment..........

Everyone has heard verse 25, and we all have surely heard a message about this verse and how we should be diligent about coming to church.
Some no doubt roll their eyes the minute they hear this verse quoted.

But look at the verses running up to it.

This not forsaking is initially based on our great High Priest.
Because He is our High Priest.... forsake not the assembling together.

Because of Him, let us draw near - with full assurance, a clean conscience, and clean lives.
If you are having problems with assurance, with conscience, with besetting sins - maybe it has a link in you not assembling together?
If you struggle to hold fast to your profession of faith - maybe you are forsaking the assembling together?

When you assemble together there is opportunity to provoke one another to love and to serving the Lord. You can grow in the Lord when you assemble together.
If you walk alone the only thing you will grow is cold.....
 And lonely....


The manner of some is to forsake the assembling together - but that shouldn't be the manner of any saved person.
We ought to assemble together precisely for the reasons that we can help each other with loving the Lord and serving the Lord, and this can be called exhortation.

Don't blame your pastor or your church if you are getting downcast in the world, when you refuse to assemble together in exactly the place and with the people whom the Lord has provided to help you grow in Him.