23 Unity around the Lord's Table

Paul’s point in these verses about the Lord’s Supper was like that made earlier (5:6-8). The collective worship of Christians at the Lord’s Supper expressed the unity among the members and their participation (koinōnia, “fellowship”) in the blood of Christ and in the body of Christ. The one loaf of bread, of which all partake, pictured their unity as members of the one body of Christ. This denotes oneness, and that is most significant, as we will see.
First of all, the elements a church uses fosters commonality in that the participant eats and drinks something. When the Devil He was tempting Jesus He had not eaten for forty days. Satan then tempted him to turn stones into bread. Jesus replied, “Man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” (Matt 4:4)