"For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them." (Matthew 18:20)
We use that verse to make small crowds feel better, and that is not what it is for. Look at the context, because the context is brutal. Jesus has just finished explaining what to do when a brother sins against you. Go to him alone. If he will not listen, take one or two others. If he still will not listen, tell it to the church. And then, in the middle of a passage about confrontation and discipline and the hardest conversations a community ever has, he says: where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there.
He is not talking about attendance. He is talking about the moment when two people who could easily come to hate each other decide instead to stay in the room and work it out. That is where he says he shows up. Not in the crowd, in the confrontation, when it is carried out in his name, with the door still open and the love still intact.
Which means the hardest conversation your church is avoiding right now is the exact place Jesus has promised to be, and we keep scheduling around it. We treat the difficult conversation as the threat to unity, when it is often the only road back to it, and we mistake the avoidance for peace. So stop avoiding the person you need to sit down with. Go, in his name, with the love intact and the door open, and discover that the room you have been dreading is the room where he said he would meet you.