The scripture text for this morning is found in 1st Corinthians, Chapter 11,

verses 17 to 34.

But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist

among you, and in part I believe it.

For there must also be factions among you so that those who are approved may become evident among you.

Therefore, when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

For in your eating, each one takes his own supper first,

and one is hungry and another is drunk.

What do you not have houses in which... another is drunk. What?

Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink?

Or do you despise the Church of God

and shame those who have nothing.

What shall I say to you?

Shall I praise you?

In this I will not praise you.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you,

that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which 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, he took the cup also after supper saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.

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