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So by obeying Gods command to attend a worship service is one form of worship.

You don't need to agree with my interpretation on the "gathering." However you have no right to add your own interpretation and legalize it like scripture that "worship service" equals church and therefore is required by God.

And I did answer your question. I can have over a few friends, where we worship together. We "gather." And it is concieveable that those gifts given to men by God, as listed in Titus and Timothy, are applical to daily living and simple gathered settings.
Not the modern day practice of speech giving.

Nate

Mack and I have discussed this issue often of the modern day practice of speech giving:) We feel there probably should be more interaction. The problem I see with that happened quite often in our churches Sunday School Class. Not to judge the people but 99% of them did not want to seriously discuss, they just wanted to listen. When they did speak it was usually off topic, or a question that had been answered several hundred times in the past, or someone just trying to make scripture say what they wanted it to say. The few that were there to seriously look into scripture then had to sit through all this nonesense. If it wasn't for the sermons I would not have learned much from church service.

I believe church service is commanded. I also believe gathering with others to study, is commanded. We do that every Fri. evening with a group. We pick out a book and each week we all discuss what we studied and learned about it ourselves. It is a great time of fellowship.

Just as the eunuch in Acts needed help from Phillip so do all of us need help at times. Just because I ask a pastor a question does not mean I give him my allegience or am worshipping him. God gave us these men to help, he also gave us the discernment to recognize a false preacher also. If I felt the preacher of our church was only trying to get new members to increase his salary, I would be out of there, or he would. A preachers sincereity will be evident.

Becky

Not the modern day practice of speech giving.

Not just modern-day.
Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:

2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

Acts 13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

Acts 17:19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.