Two minute read.
I wrote last week about The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch which ultimately leads down to connection with community. Those two words still are needed as we take our turns pursuing the Life of God.
These two words have for a great many years come down to us who have held that Acts 2 still has a calling upon those who believe that community matters.
Let’s look at a parallel between a Tribe and a Church.
Communitas involves adventure and movement and it describes that unique experience of togetherness (that’s a great word) that really happens among a group of people inspired (we’ll come back to that word) by the vision of a better world.
Who doesn’t want; a better world? Primarily it seems that those who have all they want also can have little thought about spending time with others unless they want something this side of Heaven.
When we think about Heaven (that place where we will go one day), Communitas plays a huge roll for those who have determined that they need others while living on Earth.
To Belong Is To Grow. And that is done not singularly but in community. Now, I am not thinking here about finding people who will help us get, (as they say) a leg up. That may happen, but that is not the goal, at least not in those crazy 3 thousand people our brother Luke wrote about in Acts 2:41.
Community began at that point in history that day. I do indeed love Acts 2! Checkout these 6 statements.
- And awe came upon every soul
- Wonder and signs were being done
- All who believed were together and had all things in common
- They were selling their possessions and belonging
- They were distributing the proceeds to all as any had need
- The Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved
This blog post does not have enough room to run through those 6 statements. But you can, if you feel the need to do that, it will challenge you and the church you attend.
Just look through the simplistic words above; awe, wonder, together, common, selling possessions, distributing, being saved!
My love for what happened there goes beyond history. You and I can compare it with present day reality. What would we see? What would we hear? Is that still important to us as we develop new churches? Something began in Jerusalem, has it ended or has it changed?
What does the passage in Acts 2 tell us about the results of BELONGING?
We will pick back up with Christian Americana – 5 to conclude this later.
But before we get there, think on these three words that will be the focus for our final Christian Americana.
- Act
- Survive
- Grow
God’s Peace to all of you,
MC
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