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`` Read on , '' his wife said eagerly , and Edwin continued : `` God 's people are not to forsake the assembling of themselves together to worship him -LRB- Heb . 10:25 -RRB- ; ` for where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them . ' -LRB- Matt . 18:20 -RRB- . `` It may be a mystery in the mind of some why we read in the Bible of churches , when God has but one church . A little attention to the word will convince any honest mind that the church of God is plural only in regard to its geographical location . The people in the different communities could not go up to Jerusalem in order to assemble themselves together in worship , for the distance in some instances would have been too great .