Sermon Video: When Church does more harm than good - 1 Corinthians 11:17-22

I spend a lot of time and energy trying to convince people of their need to be a part of a church.  I know the absolute necessity of participation in the body of Christ, both for Christians and potential converts.  And yet, we all know that there are times when a particular church is doing more harm than good when it meets on Sunday.  Our first thought would revolve around places where heresy is being preached, where the Truth is absent, and thus people are being led astray from the Gospel.  The Apostle Paul certainly has harsh words for such people/places, but in this particular passage it is not theology but behavior that concerns Paul, and not that during the church service itself but rather at the meal which proceeded it at the church of Corinth.  That's right, it was the church potluck which threatened to tear asunder a church.  How can a communal meal be the source of such divisions?  At Corinth the rich were treating the meal as a private affair, bringing fine food for themselves and not sharing, while the poor went hungry.  In other words, they were acting as if the people whom they were outside of the Church had anything to do with who they were in Christ (as if wealth/class matter before God).  In doing so, the worship service that followed this travesty was in effect null and void; the gathering together of God's people for worship was doing more harm than good.
Are we, as a church (or Church) in any way guilty of such sacrilege?

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