Comments on: Is It Wrong To Eat In The Building Where Christians Worship ? https://cocbuffalowy.com/2017/05/is-it-wrong-to-eat-in-the-building-where-christians-worship/ Bible Answers to Spiritual Questions Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:16:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Jim https://cocbuffalowy.com/2017/05/is-it-wrong-to-eat-in-the-building-where-christians-worship/#comment-1913 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:16:59 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=2807#comment-1913 In reply to Anonymous.

Thanks for your comments. I actually do agree with you. I am at a bit of a loss to understand why we all couldn’t sit for an hour and worship God “in spirit” without being preoccupied with the flesh. It just seems to me that we could do our drinking before and after the worship service. Thanks again. God bless.

]]> By: Anonymous https://cocbuffalowy.com/2017/05/is-it-wrong-to-eat-in-the-building-where-christians-worship/#comment-1902 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:53:46 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=2807#comment-1902 I certainly don’ think I know it all but to me it seems very disrespectful to enter worship service or assembly toting your cup of McDonalds coffee or your Diet cola. I fear in our day of progressiveness and compromise we fail to see the respect and reverence we owe our Lord and Savior. Even before churches were air conditioned and were often very warm you didn’t see water bottles in the pews or be carried around as we do today.

]]> By: Timothy Arnold https://cocbuffalowy.com/2017/05/is-it-wrong-to-eat-in-the-building-where-christians-worship/#comment-1267 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:30:51 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=2807#comment-1267 Good article explaining why some of our brethren believe eating in a church building is not authorized and therefore sinful. I disagree with part of your conclusion, however. Paul did not say to not eat in a worship assembly. As you correctly stated, “neither eating nor drinking is forbidden in the building where Christians meet for worship.” When Paul wrote this letter, the assembly was probably in a brothers house. The first Christians lived in a different world from ours. They would’ve worked all day then met in the evening for worship. All through the scriptures we see the importance of sharing meals. Jesus met in sinners homes to share a meal and told them to repent and he fed thousands when crowds came to hear him speak. At Pentecost the new believers were eating daily together. The Lord instituted the memorial during a religious meal. “Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it…” I have no doubt they came together for supper, sharing the meal together, memorializing Jesus in the symbols of flesh and blood. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians addressed many different divisions amoung them. “V20 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. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.” Paul is being sarcastic when tells them why the supper they came together to eat was not the Lord’s Supper, because they were not waiting for everyone to gather before eating. He didn’t tell everyone to eat at home before assembling, just the opposite. His statement is conditional,
“then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another— if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment.”
I don’t see anything wrong with separating the bread and wine from the meal as we remember Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins. However, if we truly want to follow the example of the first Christians we would share a meal, sing a hymn, pray, contribute and stir one another to good works.

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