By Andrew Beasley There is a
togetherness that is notable about Christianity when we are doing things in the
way that God desires them to be done. Of late I have taken note of how the
early church, in the days after its establishment on Pentecost, functioned
outside of what we might refer to as corporate worship today. What was life
like for these early Christians? The end of the second chapter of Acts informs
us that Christians then were together. They had all things in common. They took
what they had and shared it among themselves as needs arose. But perhaps most
importantly they were together every day studying together, sharing common
meals with one another in each other’s homes. Perhaps most importantly is that
they did all this gladly and praised God as was right for them to do. I wonder if Christ
held up the church today and placed it side by side with the early church after
its establishment, what would he see? Would he see churches that look different
from an outward, surface level perspective but inwardly they are identical in
nature. Or would he find that the Lord’s church in modern times, inwardly,
looks nothing like the church that Christ built upon the foundation of Peter’s
confession of who He is (Matthew 16:17-19)? I reflect on the fact that at the
time that Luke records in Acts 2, the church had not been in existence for very
long. There were still epistles to come. There were still things that would be
revealed to them. But as they waited for those things to come, they had one
thing right. Unity. |
- Andrew Beasley serves as
a minister with the Northwest Church of Christ in Greensboro, NC. He may be
contacted through the congregation's website: https://nwchurchofchrist.com/about/ |
Sunday, October 1, 2023
We Are One
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