Saved, yes. But we remain humans, sinful and in need of Jesus’ deliverance and provision. Perhaps the people inside the four walls of the church are those most aware of their need ...
“Saved, yes. But we remain humans, sinful and in need of Jesus’ deliverance and provision.”
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I think you and I just have different approaches to the role of the local church, though the approaches are not mutually exclusive.
I’d be more of a mind that a person’s sins are better addressed before he gets to into a building and waits for a meeting.
I suspect that’s partly the reasoning behind Pauls’ words “everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup”. I don’t believe he meant as a last-second thought in the meetings, but more “get right before you gather together.”
That would also dovetail nicely in Jesus’ teaching that if a person has an issue with a brother to hold off going to the temple to make a sin offering and make peace with the brother first, instead.