I have tried going to "home Bible studies", but in each case I tried in the past few years, the home groups have reflected the distortion or off-true nature of their sponsoring churches.

I had a good Bible study connected to Calvary Chapel when we attended there in California years ago, but that one disintegrated because of the major emotional
uproars of the leaders.  That seemed to be the main problem in that mega-church, people succumbing to personal emotional animosities and disappointments.
Every church seems to have its weakness, and that was theirs.

I am at present enjoying my visit to the Catholic Bible study, because, while they are learned people who have thought and studied a great deal about philosophy,
about Jesus, about science (many are scientists) they are not strong on Bible study.  So I can contribute there.  It's not so much me learning as me teaching, although I'm sure learning a lot about what Catholic intellectuals think these days....much of it very new to me.  My knowledge of the New Age is also new to them, which surprises me.  They refer to New Age people as "spirituals", taking the lead of a writer in the publication "America".  

One Bible study connected with Calvary Chapel also turned me off because the leaders were had no compassion for the lost.  More than one of these people said to me, on different occasions, that they don't know why we should care about the lost, who have deliberately rejected God.  These were people in an upscale community and perhaps they had no compassion for anyone who had less than they had....but that was not true of the whole church, as they were a megachurch, with various groups within it.  I still think of that as my primary church and miss being there.   

The Episcopal home study group was composed primarily of thirty-somethings who talked a language I could not understand....is there THAT great a divide between
us older people and the younger folks?  Same here of the Calvary Chapel home study group, all young people in their twenties and early thirties, who spoke a language I could not fathom...I won't even try to interpret it because I can't!  

The best Bible study I ever attended was run by a nun from Ireland at St John's in Encinitas.  A smart cookie!  A compassionate woman!  And she danced the Irish jig at parties.  I miss that little piece of paradise.