The answer given to the loaded question, why don’t you go to church?, is straightforward and rejects the validity of the loaded question with its implied consequences. The question assumes the validity of its model and does not allow for an answer that obliterates the model itself. It thinks it holds all answers squarely within its orb.
The question, do you reject the fact that the earth is the center of the universe, and therefore, refute the facts of the learned leading men of science? presupposes the irrefutable position of the geocentric universe based upon the experts in the field and all acquiescing followers. Until the Renaissance, to challenge the geocentric universe was “unthinkable”.
Simply put, going to church, like holding to the geocentric universe is an invalid position, with this one exception. Scientifically, the geocentric universe was never actually true, while it was (and still is to a large degree) spiritually true. Going to church (which should be properly understood as going to the synagogues of Jesus) was an actual spiritual reality, while it is no longer the case. This fact does not mean to say that men no longer constantly seek the revival of that olden reality. In fact, seeking the maintenance of church order is the warp and woof of the churches.
Jesus was born, attained manhood, and ministered in the last days of the Law of Moses. He declared that He would build His church, better understood as His assembly, or, more pointedly, His synagogue in place of the Jewish synagogues that arose after the return from the Babylonian exile. Paul later confirmed that the Christian assemblies were based upon the Jewish synagogues. Jesus also declared and Paul affirmed that the synagogues (the assemblies) of Jesus would become fulfilled and, thereby, transformed into the Kingdom of the Father. It is a summing statement to say that the Synagogues of the Son became the Kingdom of the Father and the Son. The partial gifts of the assemblies of the Son were fulfilled in the fullness of the Father, wherein God is All in all.
I do not go to church in the same way that I do not keep the Law of Moses. They are both fulfilled in Jesus Christ! I do not function in the partial, supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit because they are all fulfilled in Jesus Christ! I do not function in the down-payment of the Holy Spirit of God because His full-inheritance presence is fulfilled in Jesus Christ! I call trying to maintain the former of these comparisons the round peg in a square hole syndrome. Try all you want – and the trying is herculean – the peg will not fit because it is not designed to fit.
Where do I “go”? Where do we “go”? Jesus has brought the presence of God to us. Accordingly, God has made His tabernacle to fully dwell and abide with us. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty! “Where two or three gather in My Name, there I am in the midst of them.” We are in the Heavenly Jerusalem. We are upon the Holy Mount Zion. This is the Assembly of the Righteous. We walk the great street of the great city and abide in the Holy of Holies. We walk in the garden of God’s delight clothed with the garments of Light of Jesus Christ!
Hallelujah! Jahveh is Here! Glory to God in the Highest!
God had made us to fully know as we have been fully known!
I will end this note with a great quote by a great messenger to a great prophet and then quote the word of God by Jesus the Word via John, His apostle and prophet. In approximately BC 538 Gabriel said to Daniel, “Seventy sevens are determined for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for sin, to bring in eternal righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.” In fulfillment thereof, in approximately AD 69 Jesus said through John, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they will be the peoples of Him, and God Himself will be with them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.’ And He who sits on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’ And He said, ‘Write, for these words are faithful and true.’ Then He said to me, ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give water to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life, without cost. The one who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.’”