When I was young, it was because: "I said so."

 When I was in my teens: "As long as you live here and we  pay your bills, you are going to church, I don't care what  time you got home."

 When I became a young adult: Well, I was the Pastor.

 Today, I'm still the Pastor, but I want to be there when I  am preaching or if we have a guest, because there is an  aspect of the Lord's Presence I can't get, except in the  assembly of the believers. "For where two or more are  gathered in His name, He is in the midst". (Matthew  18:20)

 Today it seems there is a move in our culture away from  a need for Church. But I say it's just a cover for the whole  culture drifting away from God. Hebrews 10:25 says...
 "not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the  habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the  more as you see the day drawing near".

 I see Jesus coming. I'm going to church. I would even if I  wasn't preaching.