我们可以发现，我们一旦进入了神的圣所，我们对事物的观点就会有所改变。当然，我们独处的时候也可能会这样，不过要是我们在集体崇拜中，这情况会更快发生。神命令我们聚集，不单是要让我们加深彼此的认识，更要让我们更多的认识祂。而有趣的是：当我们越能够有效地彼此交往的时候，我们就越有效地与神交往。我们透过集体的敬拜，比独自敬拜能够更认识神。不过这并不是说被逼留在家里 ,或者因为种种原因而不能参加集体敬拜的人，不能够亲密地认识神，只是有些特别的事情确实来自集体崇拜的行动。

让我们来听一听鲁益斯（C.S. Lewis）怎么说：「神只能够向真实的人显出祂的真我。那表示不单是个别良善的人，而是在群体中联合在一起，彼此相爱，彼此帮助，向彼此显示神的人。因为这是神对人的要求；好像乐队的成员，或者身体的器官一样都是一个整体。因此，要认识神，我们必须要整个基督徒群体一起等候祂，这才算是足够。基督徒之间的情谊，就像是科学的技术设备──实验室的装备一般重要。」

那些不参加教会的聚会，或者不与其他信徒有团契生活的基督徒，都会错过了生命中最伟大的科学──学习认识神。

We are seeing that once we enter the sanctuary of God our perspective changes. This can happen to us when we are alone, of course, but the chances are it will happen more swiftly in the act of corporate worship. It is a command of God that we meet together, not only that we might come to know each other better, but that we might also come to know Him better. And here's the interesting thing - the more effectively we relate to one another, the more effectively we relate to Him. We come to know God better through the act of corporate worship than when we worship on our own. That is not to say that the shut-ins, or those who for various reasons are unable to meet together in worship, cannot know God intimately, but something special flows out of the act of corporate worship.

Listen to how C.S. Lewis put it: "God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply men who are individually good but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body. Consequently the only real adequate instrument for learning about God is the whole Christian community, waiting for Him together. Christian brotherhood is, so to speak, the technical equipment for this science - the laboratory outfit."

Christians who neglect attendance at the church, or choose to deprive themselves of fellowship with other Christians, miss out on life's greatest science - learning about God.