Have you ever given much thought to how beautiful diversity is?
I was driving past the Christmas lights at the park yesterday and all those different colored lights combining into a beautiful tapestry of Christmas joy was breath-taking.
My wife and I are about as diverse as they come, yet that's what makes us a great couple is that what each of us lacks the most, the other has in abundance.
I'm thankful that we are not all the same, and that each of us has been beautifully and perfectly created in the image of God, and even more thankful that we can all come together as one body in Jesus Christ.
Today we come to celebrate the diversity that is the body of Christ.
Read 1 Cor. 10:16-17
Context: Paul writing to the Corinthian church giving them worship instructions. There had been divisions and factions among them to the point of persecution or snobbery toward those who didn't "fit the mold". Here he is clarifying what it means to commune with Christ in the context of the Lord's Supper.
Here is what Paul was wanting them and us to know...

The Lord our God, the Lord is One

Deut. 6.4 was the OT battle cry, and it echoes in the message that Paul was giving to the Corinthian belivers.
But Paul points that message to it's church context as found in Jesus Christ

We all serve the same God - and as such He has the same requirements, the same expectations, the same rules, the same everything. He does not change and he is not "situation-specific"
People today tend to think they have God figured out. Recently I was called a sinner by a parent because I play fast worship music.
Also, today, people are looking for cookie-cutter churches. Everyone needs to have the same socio-eonomice statuse, come from the same neighborhood, etc.
Paul said we are all serving the same God, we all have Jesus as our Savior, and that makes us all brothers and sisters
"since there is one bread" - Today you come to partake of the "one bread". Have you rightly recognized God and Jesus as the only one and committed to following His Word?

Though We are Different, We are 1 Body

Paul goes on to clarify that when we come together at the table, we are coming together not as a disjointed unit, not as many individuals celebrating a common observance, but rather we are all coming and making up one body of Christ.
A corallary to that is that when some of us are absent from the body the body is lacking.
When your fellowship with God is broken, the body is lacking
Think for a moment about the men who sat at that table with Jesus.

A tax-collector, a fisherman, a traitor, two brothers, some hot-heads, not your typical CEO led board meeting.
Yet Jesus told them on that night that they were the reason he came, and not just them, but for all mankind.

The disciples represented the spectrum of mankind, and it was in their diversity that they became one.
The church in Corinth on the other hand had become a church of "one". In other words, they wanted a cookie-cutter church where everyone was perfect.
Paul reminds us as we come to the table. There is one bread - Christ, there is one body - us, and though we have differences, we all belong together - in communion with Christ.

Jesus left a clear command to observe the Lord's supper. Why? A very simple reason, he wants to meet with you, to share communion with you, and to remind you of who He is in Your life.
So he invites us to the table today, to come not as individuals, but as one body of Christ.