How do you look at corporate worship with your fellow church members? Optional? Consider this:
How often has even the presence of our fellow Christians impressed us with a sense of God’s greatness and condescension and of our own unworthiness in his sight? When we have recollected that our adorations were in company with those of others, who perhaps bowed at the divine throne with a deeper humility—that our praises were joined with those of others, who perhaps felt more gratitude than we—that our petitions for mercies were the same as those of others, who might pray with more earnestness or more faith than ourselves—that God knows every character and lets not even a sigh escape his notice, and that we altogether—the largest assembly of worshippers that could be found either in earth or heaven—the whole universe itself and all therein are nothing before him – how much have these thoughts tended to fill our minds with a sense of his glory!
From “Public Worship Considered and Enforced” By Joseph Kinghorn