READ: Acts 4:32-5:11
Several
characteristics defined the earliest community of Jesus-followers:
- unified agenda
- great power
- great grace
- NO needful person among them
Luke
suggests each above characteristic relates directly to the sacrificial sharing
of each person’s personal possessions.
When
one person hungered, another fed. When
one person grieved, another comforted. The
more mature nurtured the less.
The gruesome “flip side” tale reflects two Jesus-followers who wish to appear more sacrificially generous than they are. They enjoy the fellowship, but prefer to keep their possessions a separate “private” matter.
Luke
characterizes them as deceptive toward their community and duplicitous with
God. Powerlessness, gracelessness, and destruction
ensue.
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My
communal sacrifice could be best measured by:
- time shared with others
- money shared for others
- energy invested in others
I
share about ________% of my _____________ .
27%
of Albemarle County Public School students currently receive free or reduced
lunch, including 47 students at Broadus Wood Elementary School. Is this noteworthy for the Jesus-followers of
Earlysville?
If
God desired to implement a change in the above, how might God facilitate that
change?
- State & local government leaders
- Benevolent benefactors
- Jesus-followers
- Inexplicable mysterious miracle
- All of above
Invitation:
If
basic nourishment is a daily struggle for one fourth of area children, list
other life/health factors which may need a sacrificial investment by area
Jesus-followers?
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