{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Day","title":"1 Corinthians 11 Part Two: The Three Muskateers ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":800,"description":"(NRSV, 1989)Paul turns his attention toward another problem within the church that the Corinthians are creating for themselves because of their refusal to see themselves as one and to seek one another’s betterment. Now in giving this instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. Indeed, it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you. When you come together, then, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. For at the meal, each one eats his own supper. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk! Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you in this matter!Paul would ask each Christian why he or she gathers with others around Christ’s table. He criticizes the Corinthians because they come “to eat the Lord’s Supper” not for sake of unity but for the sake of distinguishing themselves one from the other. Remember that this church has become factionalized: “I am of Paul…of Apollos…of Cephas…of Christ…” Some feel comfortable eating food sacrificed to idols because they “know better,” and others, it seems, want to ignore the fact that in Christ Jesus there is no male or female. It should come as no surprise, then, to discover that the reason for the Corinthians’ coming to the Lord’s Table for communion is as selfish and self-centered. Paul cannot understand why the Corinthians are acting this way. “Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink?”“For at the meal, each one eats his own supper. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!” They have the bread and the wine, but communion has ceased to be that and has become, instead, an individual affair; its purpose as a means of creating a new...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QuQW_cZXSsuBMOigLtAJwx1STWkIimOEzRB22DVXWLI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMwOC8xNTM2OTc2/NTk0LWFydHdvcmsu/anBn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}