Remember the context in which early Christians observed the Supper to understand how they could easily abuse it. Instead of seeing it, as we do, a separate act in our common spiritual life, they held it at the END of a potluck-style Love Feast. In which over-indulgence in food and over-consumption in wine marred the observance.
We may feel over-eating shouldn't be that cause. But when it meant:
We surely understand that drinking to excess would:
Indeed, class-conscious members wanted daily-life distinctions preserved:
While the Lord's Supper demanded:
To worthily eat and drink the Lord's Table meant:
Point of fact, then. In the context of Corinthian behavior, unless we seek:
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