“Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 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” (Acts 2:41-47).
What do you think and feel when you read this description of the church in her first days?
Personally, I long for it deeply. I think, How extraordinary and wonderful and glorious and needed. Fall upon us Holy Spirit! Come Lord Jesus!
It’s striking how mere the life of the church was, and yet how profoundly powerful was its effect. May the Lord grant us such mere devotion yielding such glorious and lasting fruit!
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