New family

Thursday April 27th, Acts 4: 32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. This is the Honda text, in some translations it says they were all in one accord. To be a first century Christian meant that you were most likely ostracized from your family. The family was the basic support and economic structure. To be ostracized from it meant you had no job, no friends, no money and no support. The early church took over those tasks and created a new family, one in which everyone shared. When we walk as Christians today, we are also asked to treat others as brothers and sisters in Christ. We are asked to treat others as family. Our world tends to say, “every one for themselves,” or “what’s in it for me?” Don’t ever doubt that the conflict between the two words is real. It is what sin is all about.