It Is Good To Be Together (Acts 2:42-47)

The digital age promised a revolutionary new world marked by connection, life, and the sense that we’re all a part of something greater than ourselves. And it has somehow done the exact opposite. There’s something different about these online spaces.  It’s as if they’re trying to replicate something that we can only truly experience when we gather together in a room with other people.  The book of Acts is Luke’s description of the effects of the Gospel.  It chronicles the spread of the good news of Jesus and the birth of the early church. In it, we see that when the body of Christ gathers to participate in something larger than themselves, what results is an outpouring of resources that gives life to the world.  Jesus shares his sacredness, shares his holiness, shares his love, grace, forgiveness, mercy, the very Spirit of God with us so that we might share it with the whole world.  And to participate in the life of the church is to get to be a part of that.