Do not Forsake
Before we go any further, I supposed it's as good a time as any to address that one verse arsenal someone within your sphere of influence would have squarely leveled at my head by now.
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some.”
(Hebrews 10:25 - NKJV)
There it is — we are plainly admonished to go to church.
My reply is simply that Scripture also states,
“Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”
— 2 Corinthians 13:1 (NASB)
That’s one — what other scriptures collaborate this view?

One possible additional witness would be to notice that Jesus always went to church. After all He is our example.

Technically, Jesus went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, which …show more content…
I had always believed that Jesus went to synagogue (or “church” — if we’re going to call it that) because it was Jewish law.
But scripture states He didn’t go to “church” because of law, but rather because of custom. Which makes me want to know what the difference is between law and custom.
The Greek word used here for custom has the meaning:
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We give the traditions more validity than they deserve and through familiarity we lose perspective on any rationale that originally existed relating to the activity.
I’m reminded of a story that perfectly illustrates this:
A man brings home a ham for the upcoming Thanksgiving meal. In agitation, his wife inquires, “Why didn’t you have the butcher cut off both ends of the ham?”
The husband replies, “Why would I do that?”
The wife responds, “That’s how my mother always did it.”
Since the wife’s mother was visiting, they asked her why she always cut off the ends of the ham.
She replied that this was the way her mother always baked a ham.
Mother and daughter decide to call grandmother and solve this three-generation mystery.
Grandmother promptly replies, “I cut both ends off the ham because my pan was too small.
Traditions and customs can become the “right thing to do,” the “right way to think,” or the “right doctrine” simply because by many years of repetition they have inherited the perceived force of law.
Jesus went to “church” because it was His custom to do so.
But was it church attendance that strengthened His relationship with Father? By what method did Jesus discover and develop that relationship? And what influence, if any, did the church play in all of