A Look at the Early Church Written
We have come a long way since Jesus ascended into heaven. The Message entrusted to those few disciples has now been carried throughout most of the world by the power of the Holy Spirit. Even now new people in many nations hear and encounter the power of the Gospel of Christ every single day. We have many big churches, Christian universities, seminaries, and numerous ministries carrying out works throughout the world and we thank God for that, but what did it look like for the early church? In order to get a snapshot of this we will look at some verses in Acts 2:42-47. The first line says that they devoted themselves 11
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Nic Barker
to the apostles teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. What a beautiful verse. If I had to take any single verse as a summary of what church should look like, I think this would be it. Here we see that the early church devoted themselves to the Word and to the apostle’s teachings. This was not only hearing and discussing the teachings but applying the teachings and living it out on a daily basis. This verse tells us that they also met together daily, not just once or twice a week, but every day. Together they broke bread - an indication of sharing, acceptance, and love, symbolic of a family sharing a meal, and also in remembrance of Christ. And they prayed together.
