The church is not a building, it’s an assembly of people whose sole purpose is encourage, build up, and pull people out of darkness. I don’t know why anyone would not want to be part of that just because of a few bad apples.
Hebrews 10:25 (MEV): 25 *Let us not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but let us exhort one another, especially as you see the Day approaching.
Ephesians 4:12–15 (MEV): 12 for the equipping of the saints, for the work of service, and for the building up of the body of Christ, 13 until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, into a complete man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so we may no longer be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men, by craftiness with deceitful scheming. 15 But, speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him, who is the head, Christ Himself,
