The Table of the Lord and the Table of Demons

The Table of the Lord and the Table of Demons
1 Corinthians 10.14-22

‘Christianity’, declared the great Archbishop William Temple, ‘is the most materialistic of all religions.’ He had in mind the commitment of genuine Christianity to the faith that God really became human in Jesus of Nazareth, and all that follows from that in terms of the Christian’s commitment to bringing the kingdom of God, as Jesus taught us to pray, on earth as in heaven. But in the present passage we see another aspect of just how ‘materialistic’ the Christian faith really is. Some may find it worrying, and it’s no bad thing to ask why...

Taken from Paul 1 Corinthians for Everyone – by Tom Wright