Inner Unity at the Table

1 Corinthians 11:17-22 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 11 in context

Scripture Focus

17Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
20When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
21For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
1 Corinthians 11:17-22

Biblical Context

Paul rebukes their gathering, saying it harms the church: divisions and selfish eating spoil the Lord's Supper, leaving some hungry and others drunk.

Neville's Inner Vision

Do you see, friend, that Paul's complaint is not merely about a bad table, but a misalignment of inner states? The church you see outside is the outward sign of what you carry within. When you imagine 'us' and 'them' at a table, you are tasting separation in your own awareness. The so-called heresies among you are the subtle beliefs you still loyalty-test to prove your worth. The moment you take your seat on the left while another is hungry on the right, you are really hungry for a sense of importance, and the cup becomes a symbol of personal satisfaction. The cure is not social rearrangement but a new inner arrangement: behold the one body, the one loaf, the one Lord within your own I AM, and know that all are fed. As you revise this inner scene and feel it real, the inner movements shift; the outer gathering becomes one place, one purpose, one nourishment. Rest in the realization that unity is a state of consciousness you already inhabit.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and say, 'I am the I AM; there is one body, one table, one life in me now.' Then revise any scene of division by seeing every person as part of you at the same feast, and feel the nourishment as real.

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