More harm than good!

I have recently been looking throgh Paul's letter to the Corinthians and especially the bit about the Lord's Supper (1 Cor 11 v 17-26). Although I have read this passage many times before, this time, it became very powerful.

It's the bit when Paul says to the Corinthians that they do more harm than good meeting in the way they do. Trying to understand the background I looked into Chapter 1 and found out how the early church had sort of lost its way forgetting the centrality of the cross of Christ and ending up in big arguments. In chapter 11 I think Paul is saying that because the community of Christians didn't recognise each other as part of the body of Christ, equal, chosen (Chapter 1) then what they did in their 'meetings' was harmful. Someone has said that there was too much spiritual snobbery!

So is it still the same today I thought? When we take communion do we recognise everyone as equal? Is it the same in other services...if we don't recognise everyone as chosen by God ... do we cause harm on each other?

I often come away from church feeling fed up. What I'm trying to do now is to ask whether those feelings are because I cannot tolerate other people's expression of faith. Is it because their style of leading, prayers, ethics is not in line with mine that I find it difficult. This is a big problem because I can't see how I can change my own feelings and beliefs whilst also accepting that others are just as right??

Andrew