The agape feast is the love meal the churches ate together.
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear.
Agape is love. Jude names love feasts where some feast without fear, shepherds feeding themselves. Paul writes to Corinth that when they come together it is not the Lord’s Supper they eat, because each goes ahead with his own meal, one hungry and another drunk. The shared table of the church had become a display of who had food. He tells them to eat at home if they are that hungry, and to wait for one another. The love feast is not a second sacrament. It is the church’s meal, and it can be spoiled.
- The Supper and the meal sit close in Corinth. Paul separates a worthy remembrance from a greedy table.
- Jude’s reefs are people inside the feast who do not fear God.
- Love is the name of the meal. Without love it is only eating.
When you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper.
Wait for one another.
Hidden reefs at your love feasts.
- Agape feast means love feast.
- Corinth turned the gathering into private meals.
- Paul says that is not the Lord’s Supper.
- Wait for one another.
- Jude warns of people who feast without fear.
- The meal is love, or it is not the feast.
- The Name – Agape, love.
- The Table – The church together.
- The Abuse – One hungry, another drunk.
- The Rule – Wait for one another.
- The Reefs – Jude’s warning.
- The Supper – Not the same act when the meal is spoiled.
- 1 Corinthians 11:20-22 – “When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:33-34 – “When you come together to eat, wait for one another.”
- Jude 1:12 – “These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear.”
- 2 Peter 2:13 – “They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.”
- Acts 2:42 – “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”
- Acts 2:46 – “Breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 – “The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?”
- 1 Corinthians 11:17 – “When you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.”
- 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 – “Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty.”
- Luke 22:19 – “He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them.”
When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
Wait for one another.
Hidden reefs at your love feasts.
The agape is the church’s meal of love. A table that shames the hungry is not that feast.
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