When did it become necessary to -go to church-- Is it even possible to -go to church-- Much of Western Christianity still operates on the notion that the church is something you attend, a building, an event, and many leaders use guilt and twisted Scripture to ensure you keep coming. But the church is the people of God, not an organization or a religious entity. In fact, the Bible actually warns us to avoid and come out of the kind of retail religion that masks as the church, today.