For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. (11:23-26)
In the Greco-Roman world, it was not unusual for large religious banquets and other meals to take place. First century AD philosopher and moralist Musorius Rufus noted that Greco-Roman meals offered many opportunities for sins to take place; it would appear that many in Corinth saw the Lord’s Supper as such an occasion. People appear to have seen the Lord’s Supper as a big mealtime, bringing in their own food and drink, not to be shared with everyone, but to be consumed to excess by their own party in church, often resulting in drunkenness, while others who had a better understanding the Lord’s Supper had nothing.
The Lord’s Supper is not a banquet, it is a proclamation of the Lord’s death until He returns, a recommitment to following Him… not a party.
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