For as you eat. Johnson says: "It was customary in Corinth to eat a meal together as did Christ and his disciples the night of the Lord's Supper. After this came the Lord's Supper. At this meal each party in Corinth sat apart and ate when it [the party] was ready. The result was that some began before others. One would be hungry and another drunken. This last phrase means that he had eaten and was satisfied." This distorted the very purpose of the fellowship meal. Benson writes: "They were called love feasts or suppers, because the richer Christians brought in a variety of provisions to feed the poor, the fatherless, the widows, and strangers, and ate with them to show their love to them." Due to conditions in the first century, the fellowship meal would be the only "square meal" many of the poor would have during the week!

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