According to modern Evangelicals, early Christians being taught by the Apostles understood the Eucharist to be purely symbolic and even optional. Which is how, according to modern Evangelicals, early Christians would have understood the above text from the Apostle Paul, even though a literal reading of it gives a very different impression. Modern Evangelicals also contend that, even though the first Christians were converts from Judaism in which worship (Temple and Synagogue) was liturgical, the Early Church was non-liturgical.

By the time you reach the 4th Century, however, the institution claiming to be the Christian Church clearly had hierarchy, defined dogma, a monopoly on Biblical interpretation, and a liturgical service centered around the Eucharist as the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Somewhere in time between the 1st Century and the 4th, the entire Evangelical understanding of Apostolic teaching (especially as recorded in the New Testament) was completely lost and replaced by what modern Evangelicals call “pagan influences.” https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-fandom-menace-and-the-early-christian-church/