1 Corinthians 11:26-29 - For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.


1 Corinthians 1:4-8 – I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:13 – For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Application:

· Has God enabled me to minister to the needs of Christ’s body, the church?
· Do I test the attitude of my own heart and actions and my awareness of the significance of the Lord’s Supper?
· Do I partake of the Lord’s Supper without recognizing that it symbolizes Christ’s crucified body? Am I aware of the nature of the church as the body of Christ?
· God has given me the Holy Spirit to indwell me. Does my life overflow with the fruit of the Spirit?

All Scripture verses taken from ESV