Community and Fellowship: Acts 2: The Pattern of Early Community

The earliest Christian community described in Acts 2:42-47 established a pattern that has inspired every subsequent generation: "They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.…