When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
The Lord's supper is a scriptural ordinance for Christians when they come together. Merely coming together in one place does not make a meal the Lord's supper when the gathering is marked by selfish feasting rather than honoring Christ's death. At Corinth the communion occasion had been turned into a meal patterned after idolatrous feasts, where families ate their own food without waiting for others, the wealthy feasted, and the poor were humiliated by the contrast. The verse condemns this misuse of the church gathering and of the Lord's supper. The supper described in the verse was later supplanted by the mass, in which priests claimed the bread and wine became Christ's actual body and blood.
The Lord's supper is a scriptural ordinance for Christians when they come together. Merely coming together in one place does not make a meal the Lord's supper when the gathering is marked by selfish feasting rather than honoring Christ's death. At Corinth the communion occasion had been turned into a meal patterned after idolatrous feasts, where families ate their own food without waiting for others, the wealthy feasted, and the poor were humiliated by the contrast. The verse condemns this misuse of the church gathering and of the Lord's supper. The supper described in the verse was later supplanted by the mass, in which priests claimed the bread and wine became Christ's actual body and blood.