I can argue for church-going from a sanctification perspective, but I'm having difficulty finding Scripture that, essentially, states "go to church." Is there anything in Scripture, in the form of command, explicit example, precept, etc. from where we can unquestionably find an exegesis that states "Christians must go to church?" I have many friends that say Hebrews 10 isn't talking about "church," and I'm having difficulty responding to them without using Hebrews 10 and trying to interpret it.
Well the word used in Hebrews 10:25 for “meeting together” is ἐπισυναγωγὴν and it isn’t actually a verb, it’s a noun that means “a religious assembly.” It actually comes from the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew word for Synagogue. So the author of Hebrews is telling us to not forsake our religious assembly.
All throughout the New Testament, we see that the coming of the Kingdom of God is tied in directly with the Church such that the Church is the very manifestation on earth of the Kingdom of God. To ignore “Church” is to ignore the kingdom of God. You cannot be kingdom minded if you are not church minded. The whole purpose of Christ’s coming was to ransom a people for himself in fulfillment of everything that came before in the Old Testament, he came to establish his Church. So to abstract ourselves from the Church is to abstract ourselves from what Christ is currently doing on earth.
God’s covenant with a collective people is a concept that runs through the entire Bible and finds it’s ultimate fulfillment in the Church. In Revelation we see that at the end of time, it is a church that stands at the feet of the exalted and glorified Lord Jesus, so don’t forsake the religious Christian assembly.
