Acts 2:46-47 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
It is so hard to stand against our world and to live differently. Everything in the world is different: clothing, cars, homes, lifestyles, speech, dress, and etc… As relational beings it is difficult to just go our on way in life. We desperately want to fit in and be accepted. Everything within us wants to be loved and embraced by others.
God does not merely ask us to give up the world, but He also calls us into a new world. We see in the Acts church a subculture. In this subculture people could be different—radically different. When they entered His kingdom, everything in their lives came under His kingship. There is a new sheriff in town, so to speak. In this kingdom there was love and acceptance, an exciting purpose, room to grow (as well as expectation to grow), and an expectation of suffering. As they separated from the world, they drew close to one another and together they desperately sought God in prayer.
In this passage we see that they met every day. Every day is a lot. In fact it is too much. To my American 21st century mind this is overkill. Yet when they came to Christ they gave it all. What was there to protect? Their schedule? Their time? Did they have better things to do? No, this was life. Meeting daily, eating together, and sharing their lives, this was their new culture. It was a new way of life.
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