The Shape of the First Church: Devotion as Structural Architecture, Not Spiritual Mood — Acts 2:42-44

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer. Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — Luke doesn't describe what the early church felt — he describes what they did, and the grammar reveals a community operating under apostolic authority with economic radicalism that would terrify most modern congregations.