It is my belief that the Church has greatly overlooked the profound importance of the declaration of Christ in Matthew 16:15 – 18. In summary, JESUS is declaring to His disciples that HE will build His Church through the direct revelation of Himself to the Body of Christ.
The meaning of Biblical revelation: (An act of revealing or communicating Divine Truth.)
The main method that the Lord uses for revealing and communicating Divine Truth is through the Scriptures of the Bible. This is why that HE has given us the Bible.
Christ revealing Himself to us at the time that we asked Him to come into our lives and be our Lord and Savior is not a one time occurrence. Christ has purposed to reveal Himself through the work of the Holy Spirit to a Born-again Believer in Christ continally. "Reading" and "meditating" upon the Scriptures of the Bible is the "main avenue" that the Lord has chosen to reveal Himself to a Christian continually.