Acts 2: Community

This past Sunday, our text in Acts 2:44-47 called us to consider the beauty of the Spirit's work in the Body of Christ. This earliest church demonstrated that the Spirit's power brings unity, love and provision. Darrel Bock indicates in his commentary that the early church's preaching (just as Peter had finished preaching earlier in Acts 2) was matched by its community.

By God's providence, we discussed this text on the first Sunday of the month, and at Heritage we enjoy partaking of the Lord's Table together and then we have a meal together after the services. So, we recognized that the Lord has blessed us, and thousands of years after Acts 2 was written, the Spirit still causes us to enjoy one another in Christian fellowship.

Let us always find ways to increase in this sort of fellowship. May we enjoy hospitality and provision. Acts 2 displays the splendor of love demonstrated in the selling of individual goods for the needs of one another and the good of the whole Christian community. May God grant us wisdom to be stewards of what we have been given so that we are quick to meet the needs of others. Let us always be empathetic, always be loving, and always be seeking the Spirit's power to display Christ-like love for our brothers and sisters in Christ.