Brother Sam stresses that church attendance is vain (without reward) if we do not get saved. People can attend church for forty years or more yet never develop a personal relationship with Jesus. Salvation is that first initial conversion experience that opens our lives to an ongoing sanctification process. That is when the church becomes truly valuable to us. In the church, we learn to walk in humbly and in love. The lessons we are taught from the pulpit need to be implemented in our lives to develop the nature of Jesus. Gradually, we surrender our old carnal nature to be led by the Spirit.