“Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
– Matthew 5:24

“The friends greet you. Greet the friends, each by name.”
– 3 John 1:15

An unwillingness to greet a fellow believer is relational canary in the coal mine. It shows there needs to be reconciliation.

We greet on the way, as it were, to the communion table. To partake in the same bread and wine together.

If we’re unwilling to greet or be greeted, we should “leave our gift at the altar” and go make things right, at least with due diligence (Romans 12:18).

This is part of “discerning the body” (1 Corinthians 11:29).

See also

• Greeting is serious business