Our fellowship within the church is an extension of the fellowship within the trinity.

Acts 2:42-47, Acts 5:12-16.

Community. It is a word thrown around in the present day Evangelical church, without much Biblical context I am afraid. A quick look at Acts 2 and Acts 5, one can see community present, however it is a product of something and not an aim to be achieved by a group of people.  

Maybe a better way to say it would be that the community experienced in Acts 2 and Acts 5 was a symptom of an inward reality in the lives of those in that community.

Much like having a cough or runny nose is a symptom of a cold or flu, the early church had symptoms of the indwelling presence of God in Christ Jesus. Luke tells us what those symptoms were in verse 42,”And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.”

Having everything common was nothing less than an outpouring of God Himself into the souls of every person whom God had, “delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son” (Colossians 1:13).

Christ became the reality that encompassed their lives, therefore, the response from their hearts and souls was the overflow of the power and love of the triune God expressed in and through Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit was poured out on Christ’s body because it was poured out on Christ Himself in the presence of God, as He stands ministering  at the right hand of the father for us His bride. 

What a wonderful wonderful God we have. We lack nothing and could not ask for more from our God who loves us so dearly and is so worthy of praise and adoration from us. May God be praised.

What else should expect from the in-breaking of the Kingdom of God into the affairs of men? We should expect to see a laying down of all our pride and man-centeredness and a  celebration of the life of Christ in the life of His saints.

May we ask God to do this in our lives, for the sake of Christ name.

We in the book of Acts, a community of souls, who hunger thirst after the righteousness of God, who reject self-reliance and devoted to Christ and therefore reject siloed Christians lives.

The power of the love of the triune God put to death the secular siloed lives that they could have easily returned to. 

The point is they didn’t want to. Christ became the reality that their lives were reoriented around. This is the core of discipleship: The reorienting of our lives around the person, work and glorious Lordship of Christ. This is the work that the Spirit does in the lives of Christ’s Church, all for the sake of Christ’s glory and fame.

My church let me preach a couple of weeks ago and my Pastor came up to me after I was done preaching, and said, “can I take communion with you? Can we share Christ together?”.

What a beautiful display of how Christ has leveled all of the sin which would separate us from God and therefore would separate us from each other. 

My Pastor and I (and all those who love and cherish Jesus Christ) will eat again , together, forever.

It will not be the last supper of the one who was crucified. It will be the first meal, which Christ has promised to eat with His church, “when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed” (2 Thessalonians 1:10).

Thank God for Jesus, for He is just so worthy.