Difference between Bible Study and Worship Service

There are some Christians who would equate the two and are satisfied with a Bible Study in the home and get rid of the guilty feeling in their minds by saying secretly, "it's the same"

But in truth, it's not the same.

When the Lord was on earth, He went into the Synagogue to teach and He went into the temple to pray.  He called the gathering of the Jews outside the temple, "their synagogue" (Matt. 12:9) but He called the temple which Herod built, "My Father's house"

As the Lord built the church and gave himself for it, it is the temple of the Holy Spirit on earth.  Each New Testament church is a temple, a house of prayer.  When the congregation gathers to worship God, it is not a Bible study but a worshipful gathering of believers.

A Bible study group is profitable and needful but it must not be a substitute for worship of the whole church.

Question and Answer about Sinful Christians

I believe in Christ, I know he saved me, but I still have this struggle about lusts.

1 Peter 4:1-2  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;  (2)  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

I want to live the rest of my life in the will of God, but it seems there is a fight within me, I still have sins that I do and afterwards I am sad because I did sin.  Is this normal for a Christian?

Galatians 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

So what should I do?

Romans 6:6  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

I don't want to serve sin, but it seems some sins are too strong for me.

Ephesians 4:22-24  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;  (23)  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;  (24)  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.