No, you can’t go it alone, but having your spiritual life depend on church once a week is no better than eating one meal a week. It’s just not going to sustain you spiritually.
It’s my daily interaction with my Savior that keeps be going through out the week, not the once a week thing. Church nice but it’s not what I depend on for spiritual growth and maturity. That way if you happen to miss church for some reason, it doesn’t throw you for a loop.
Nor does Scripture tell us that it has to be church (as we know it) worship services. All we are commanded is to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. It could be a Bible study or small group as well. As long as you are getting together with fellow believers for time focused on God.
A friend told me once that church attendance for him was tertiary in his relationship with God. First and foremost for him was prayer and Scripture reading and mediation and his own worship time with the Lord.
“All we are commanded is to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. It could be a Bible study or small group as well.”
“Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil...
...8 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. 9 They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10 And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. 11 Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. 13 For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.” - 1 Tim 3
“5 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.” - Titus 1
Again, while Bible study is good, and your spiritual life should not be LIMITED to attending church, there isn’t much New Testament support to replacing the local church with a bible study alone.
Bump!