God teaches His children, but in general it is through those He has given for the good of the church, and, though never tied down to that order, He does not set aside the wise and gracious arrangement that He has formed and will perpetuate as long as the church endures. Nourishment is ministered by joints and bands, and thus all the body knit together increases with the increase of God. What would enable us to do without one another is a thing that God never gives or sanctions. Supposing a person were cast upon a desert island, God would bless him in his solitary reading of the Word with prayer, but where there are other means and opportunities, such as assembling ourselves together for instruction, for reading the Scriptures, for public preaching, and for exhortation, to neglect or despise them is the will of man and not the guidance of the Spirit of God.
W. Kelly (Gems From My Reading)