The Corinthian Error

[302 words] The Corinthian church was slipping away from the pattern that their Master had set for them to follow. The way they were observing the Lord’s Supper was one of the main problems in this area as it was being eaten with a common meal. The Corinthian brethren had totally lost the significance of the Lord’s Supper. Paul promptly reprimanded them for this and asked the question, “What, Do you not have houses to eat and drink in?” The Passover was hardly a common meal. It was an Old Testament memorial where the people allowed their minds to go back to the time of the killing of the lamb without blemish and placing its blood on the two side posts and lintels of the houses to let the angel of the Lord know to pass over their houses so the life of the first born would be spared. This…