Acts 2:42-47
For those of you following along with the 5-for5 challenge we are spending the month of February in the book of Acts. One thing that struck me in my reading today came at the end of chapter 2 where it talks about the fellowship of believers and the early Christian church. Verse 45 says that they were selling their possessions and giving to anybody as they had need. We talk a lot about Christian charity and helping someone out in a time of need, but how often do we follow up this talk with action. Its easy to talk about helping each other out, but talk is cheap. It starts to get difficult when we start giving things up to help someone out who needs help. Maybe the next time we go to download the latest album from iTunes or go to buy the latest in cell phone technology we should stop and think about the model that the early Christian church set for us, perhaps there is something better that we can be doing with that money.
I hope you’re keeping up with the 5-for-5 challenge. The Word of God has great power to change lives for the better, but you have to read it for its power to be evident in your life. Feel free to post comments or questions or insights from your own reading.
~Andy
