What does it profit?
BQ: It's Easter. The churches were packed today; articles in the paper talked about how people make sure to attend on Easter. Many people reassure themselves that they're "Christian" and going to heaven by showing up once or twice a year.

Q: What track event does the Bible compare being a Christian to? What does he say about the assembly? 
A: 2 Tim 4:7 & 1 Cor 9:24. Acts 20:7, 1 Cor 14:23;26, Heb 10:25

Being a Christian is likened by God to a race. There is a prize at the end.  Often God asks what "profit" there is in something. Being a Christian is also a marriage of the church to Christ.

Here are some things to consider: we're told to hold fast to the things given to us. One of those is the assembly on the Lord's day. It isn't one day a year, or two. Would you win a race by exercising once a year? Would you make much profit if you went to work once a year? Would your marriage do well if you professed your love and saw your wife only once a year? What about twice? 

Are you trying to serve your own self, or are you giving God's race all you've got? Those who sit on the sidelines will not get a reward. 2 Thess 3:10 applies to the spiritual health of a person. "if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either." Let's work for the Lord every day! 
(PN63)