More on Church...

Well, I said I would a write a post about the church so here goes...First of al,l I want to clarify: for the purposes of this particular post, when I use the word church I am referring more to a body of believers who gather weekly as a congregation rather than all believers as a whole. However, most of this could apply to either definition of the word. In this post I want to answer the question " Why do we go to church?"
First of all, lets get to the root of why we go to church...actually let me rephrase that. Lets understand the purpose of the Christian life : We were made to glorify God and give Him honor. Therefore, we go to church to glorify God. (I could technically just stop here because that pretty much sums it up, but I feel like writing so I will expand on this a little) In Revelations 1:20 the word lampstand is used as a metaphor for the church.  This sheds light (ha ha get it ;) ) on the fact that the church is to be a light in a dark world, a place where truth reigns and ultimately a place where people can find the Light. In Matt 28:19 Christ says to "Go and make disciples.." I believe that another responsibility the church has is to bring people to a deeper understanding of God so that they can better emulate Him.  As C.S Lewis states " The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs." As I said before, we go to church to glorify God and as we come to know Him more we glorify Him more.  The structure of a church is also important so that when a brother or sister strays from the Lord there are people around them to inact church discipline in a loving way ( Check out I Cor. 5:1-13). We also go to church to gather with fellow believers to admonish one another and spur each other on to good works (Heb. 3:13). Church is also a place where we go to worship God through praise/singing/music/prayer (Col. 3:16; Jms 5:13..and lots more verses that I can't recall right now). I feel as though there is so much more I could say, but my day of driving is getting to me so I should probably stop and call it a night. The main point that I hope I was able to get across ( although poorly written..my mom would kill me if she saw my grammar/lack of paragraphs) is that going to church is about GLORIFIYING GOD not about going to "see and be seen".