‭1 Corinthians 16:21-22 NRSV‬
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Let anyone be accursed who has no love for the Lord. Our Lord, come!

https://bible.com/bible/2016/1co.16.21-22.NRSV

This is written to the gathering at Corinth and to us. Church might be difficult, but its nucleus is a loving community.

Where church is seen to be the gathering, but its heartbeat is not love, its faith not alive with hope for each and everyone, its purpose to be a gatekeeper to the sacred, Jesus is not there. But in the gathering where two or three gather in love, in the name of Jesus, he is there, and love is lived out.

Then some harsh words from Paul.