William Law was an eighteenth-century English writer and mystic who made a formative impression upon John Wesley and the Methodist church planting movement. He made this observation many years ago, which flew in the face of his contemporaries, just as it probably does today: “It is very observable that there is not one command in all the Gospel for public worship; and perhaps it is a duty that is least insisted upon in Scripture of any other. The frequent attendance at it is never so much as mentioned in all the New Testament, whereas that religion or devotion which is to govern the ordinary actions of our life is to be found in almost every verse of Scripture. Our blessed Saviour and His Apostles are wholly taken up in doctrines that relate to common life.”
Law, W. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. New York: Vintage Books, 2002 (originally published in 1728), pp. 6-7. Law was an Anglican priest concerned that followers of Christ be truly transformed, not simply have a new set of rules to try to follow.