I'm sorry statements like these just bother me. Is the church you are reffering to here the church as the bible describes it. Or are we talking about the building. God's bigger then the building. One can easily live a healthy spiritual life without the going to a church building once a week.
It is not about the building, and often people who don't go to church use this as a reason.
It is about the body of Christ, learning, fellowship, and everything else that church entails.
Tell me, if there had never been early church's, where would you be in your walk now?
Read the Epistles. We need church and have always needed church. Scripture shows us that God desires it.
fez, if you look at that church and the church of today, they are two completely different things