Love feasts, banquets, or fellowship meals were a vital part of church life, an important social time in which the church gathered together to spend time with each other.1 The heretics were joining everyone else at these occasions, sharing and having fellowship with them.2 Most probably their participation in these banquets also meant that they were joining in for the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11:17–34). Where these feasts were meant to be a time of encouragement and strengthening in faith, the heretics treated them like any other pagan meal, using them as an occasion to pursue and indulge their sinful desires.3
13 suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.