What believers have to understand is that before we can be enlightened/touched by the truth of God's love we have to break free from all the lies that have us captive within. The sad truth is that Christian Churches throughout the world are riddled with people who believe lies about God, themselves and others. However I know from experiences that before someone can praise God in the Great Assembly they have to leave what is binding them down here on this earth by letting the truth of God's love take their spirit up in prayer and adoration. Religion stands in the way big time, while faith in God's loving truth get us through. So from this perspective the religion is guilty of keeping believers in Christ away from an encounter with God because the lies believed and the religious tradition they adhered to kept them from meeting The Truth of God's love, neither do such believers let the truth of God's love transform them from old into new, but such believers are either smitten by guilt, shame and fear and/or arrogantly think they are better than their neighbour.
So I believe it is good to meet as believers in Christ, but not to conform to a million more words and rules on top of the truth of the bible, nor to exult some people and lord it over other, not to serve God in a place made with hands, but to praise and adore the Creator God who saved us from our sins through Jesus Christ along with all time and all places in the Great Assembly upstairs. I reckon we should NEVER miss out on worshiping our Triune God like that, but sadly as of today, the Great Prostitute religion drinks the blood of all the saints and has severely undermined the power of the faith of the Scriptures past on to the body of believers 2000 years ago.
Religion has to die before the holy people will finally be free to worship God in spirit and in truth, this is why Christ's advise to deny ourselves and follow Him is much more important than conform to the religious traditions of the Christian Churches, for the Church does not save us but Jesus does, its best believers in God's truth remember that.
Daniel 12:7
The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”