Sermon: The Community Pot ( "Community" Series)

It has become somewhat trendy to say "we want to be a first-century church", but what does that really mean? It is just serving more? Giving more? Is it a theological code? The early church can be identified most readily by their strong sense of community. There was no such thing as a "church problem" because it was "our problem". Believers didn't have church branding or institutional programs to unite them, so they had to rely on what really mattered: their identity in Christ. No matter how we cut it, the individualism we see throughout the western church poses a stark contrast from the communal philosophies of the church in Acts. So the question for us is... what type of church do we look like?