Do Christians need to go to church? Can believers worship God alone and grow in their faith without formal religion? Does the Bible directly tell us to go to church? Many believers have a standard set of arguments they employ when challenged about their church attendance but are those arguments Bible based or opinion based? Are our reasons for not attending church logical and consistent or more reactionary and emotional? In this podcast, we look at what the Bible says about the origin, importance and purpose of the church. We will consider examples of early Christians found in the book of Acts and explore what scripture points to as the unique place each of us is to have in a local church body. Rather than argue over church attendance, this podcast seeks to have us truly examine our past behavior and motives to see if we need to create new patterns of behavior in the future.