Unfortunately, many consider the Church as a building, not as a holy society that always helps each other to keep to His teachings, but rather as a building you go to once a week to ‘see and be seen’.
You bring up an interesting point. In modern American English, a "church" is a building that houses a congregation of worshipping people. But biblically, a "church" (ekklesia in the Gk. Qahal and Edah in the Hebrew) is a gathering or assembly of people, regardless of where it meets. And regardless of the reason for the meeting.
one really has to wonder with all the accepted henious behavior in our either what people do with what they do in church or what the heck is or IS NOT being taught in the churches. That is for sure.