What do you prefer, church service or Bible study?
Bible study for sure.
Church Service is a non participatory action. You go, listen and sing but you never have a chance to question anything, add anything.
A church service is so different from bible study, at the Service one follows a set pattern, you are there to pray and worship nothing else.
Bible studies allows people to search for answers to any question and with others read outside the bible for answers to why the Bible has survived from the times man wrote down the word of God.
Bible study takes in archeology, science, the lives of the people in that time. Gives us a glimpse into the men and woman and their society that meant survival.
Today most scientists wonder about some of the storeys and who wrote them. What was that great wheel in the sky, Jacobs ladder, Joshia and his trumpets---and how could the sun now reverse itself or earth to have the sun rise in the East.
A truly fascinating book as science is today using the Bible to find lost civilizations mentioned and now found to be true.
The Bible with some mistranslations and the rumors of other chapters that are kept from us still remains the greatest endever ever taken on by humans.
Little by little the literal facts in the Bible are leaking out of the past, proving that such and such did in fact happen. Not perhaps exactly as is recorded but close enough.