Spiritual but not religious?

Why go to Church regularly?

In worship, the community of God’s people assemble to receive the Word of God in scripture, sermon, and sacrament. The faith experienced there develops responses of praise, obedience, and commitment. At no time has there ever been a biblical faith, or any kind of continuing life in relation to God, apart from such common worship. By persisting in frequent, traditional, and corporate worship in which God’s word is central, God’s people are prevented from making up a religion out of their own private ideas of God. They are also prevented from making a private, individualized salvation out of what they experience, separating themselves from brothers and sisters with whom God has made it clear His saving love is to be shared, both in receiving and giving.

All parish ministries originate in this act of worship. At every service the deacon speaks the invitational command, “Let us pray to the Lord.” But the ministry does not end an hour or so later with the pronouncing of the dismissal. Our parish ministries accompany us as we live out what we have heard, and sung and received at the Divine Services. These ministries unfold in the ordinary lives of people as they work, love, suffer, grieve, play, learn and grow in times of crisis and times of routine. Our parish ministries begin at the amvon, the kliros, the baptismal font and the altar table; they continue in the hospital room, the family room, the fellowship hall, the counseling room, and the committee room.

— Adapted from Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work by Eugene Peterson