The reason to gather as a church is for the sake of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the power of this name which drives Nature itself: The trees grow by it; The planets move in their orbits around sun or stars by it. Thus, to give devotion to a meeting for the sake of this name is the very source of growth of life. If we abandon such devotion in our meetings, no longer prioritising his name, but setting aside this cause, we lose the driving force of growth, and we become spiritually blind. This is sin. The dark clouds then gather and the dark eagle soars above, as the sign of it.
