"... the rationale for the physical assembly, the meeting of the church for preaching...The assembly is not merely functional; the assembly was and is necessary, because assembly is what God is doing in remaking a broken world...The local church really and concretely represents the regathering that God is doing in a broken world. The whole story of salvation may be told around this theme of scattering as the judgment of God and gathering as the rescue of God."
~ Gospel Coalition
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2013/02/04/assembly-required/
