It’s a Shameful Sting (1 Corinthians 11:22)

 What? Is this really true? Don't you have your own homes for eating and drinking?  Or do you really want to disgrace the church of God and shame the poor?  What am I supposed to say about these things?  Do you want me to praise you?  Well, I certainly do not. (1Corinthians 11:22)

It's in the Bible

First of all, the subject of shame is in a lot of places in the Bible.  It all begins with the heart.  Have you ever embarrassed someone for their weight or religions or beliefs.  The way they feel or think?  You have managed to embarrass the very core of their being. The very part in which they believe.  Do you see the offense now?

It's very personal

Personally, I have become sensitive to it. Collectively, our mission should not be to make a person who feels good about themselves and shrink them to an inch tall in shame and humiliation.  Are you curious why I chose this passage of Scriptures?  Today, the Church is doing it even without the awareness of it and it makes people stumble.  God is not blind to it either.  Most of the people in that Corinthian church were poor and some others, came with picnic baskets full of food and had a dinner and drank wine. How would you feel if you were poor?  We do it today in many different ways to fellow believers, spouses and our own children.  We are the only ones who can stop it.

Reconcile!

 Shame....I am sorry, if you are the victim of such experience.  My heart goes out to you, it's hard.  I know it can push some people to sin and even suicide.  It's very debilitating! God loves us all and we can all be reconciled to him and others.  Forgiveness is the key to a shameless future among us.