Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Corinthians 10:17 (New Living Translation)

And though we are many, we all eat from one loaf of bread, showing that we are one body.

People don’t eat from the same biscuit. Well, maybe sometimes you will see a husband and wife or a parent and child pull bites from the same biscuit. No one else does that. That only happens in a family.

The next time your church assembly has communion, watch the miracle. When my church assembly has communion, I see complete strangers pulling bits of bread from the same piece and eating the bits.

That is crazy. That is a miracle.

Somehow, rational sane people forget all the norms of society and share the same piece of bread with their hands just like they are all in one family—just like they are one body.

Hmm, sounds that that verse above: one body.

Notice the miracle: a room full of strangers become one body, one family.