Yes, you can listen to a sermon on TV.  Yes, you can read your Bible at home.  Yes, you can gather your family around you to pray, Yes you can sing praise songs by yourself...But...

There is something about assembly that God as asked us to do.  We do it for “others” to strengthen them.  To give them fellowship.  To give them a sense of belonging.  There is strength in numbers.

Over the years, the best friends I have, I have met in church.  Those are the friends that have lasted, supported me when I needed something, been there when family has died, been sick or faced some difficult event in my life.  God says it this way:  Hebrews 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith...let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works...not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is...but exhorting one another...”

Profess, consider, provoke, assemble, exhort one another---are done in a group.  It’s not always what we get at church, it’s what we give.