ANSWER: Yes! The admonition of Hebrews 10:25 (to say nothing of Psalms 122:1; Matthew 6:33; Colossians 3:2; etc.) is explicit! We are not to forsake the “assemblings (plural)!” This passage does not say “the” assembly (singular), as though it had reference solely to Sunday morning and/or evening. Neither does “the day (singular) approaching” refer to the next first day of the week or any other day of worship for that matter. To so suggest would also be to suggest that the exhortation to assemble would require each of us to progressively exhort to a higher degree as we go through the week! No scholar through out the ages has so held! The “day” may refer to one of two “days,” with neither violating the context, i.e., either Christ’s symbolic coming in the destruction of Jerusalem or His literal coming to judge all of mankind.

Undoubtedly the time of worship on the Lord’s Day and frequency of worship on other days is a matter of option. In such matters, the collective decision of the elders is totally authoritative and binding upon each Christian under their oversight. Each is to be obedient to those who have the rule over them (Hebrews 13:7,17). To forsake the mid-week service, or any other service so appointed by the elders, is to sin by violating these verses, as well as those cited above! Some would argue, “Well, I don’t think we have to meet during mid-week, because the elders could lord it over the flock and demand that we meet seven times a day, seven times a week!” Certainly they could, but in my 50+ years in the church I have not known any who have so done and, further, I doubt that those who make such an argument have! If any group of elders would lord it over the flock in any way, provisions are made for such an eventuality (1 Timothy 5:17-20). Our commitment to the Lord must be never depend on what we think could happen, but rather upon His Word.