Downtown Community Church

We as the modern Church tend to read the book of Acts as if it is a book of heroes, a list of unattainable feats. Reading of the miraculous stories of the early church makes us question if we really even believe that the same power that conquered the grave of Jesus is truly alive in us today. To this effect, James wrote that the great prophet Elijah was a human just like all of us. For those James was writing to and for us today, the danger of heralding those of the early church as heroes is that we think that what they did is unattainable for us, and thus we give ourselves permission not to dedicate ourselves to what the earliest church folks dedicated themselves to. And when we create a ceiling for what we think we can do, we’re actually creating a ceiling for what we believe God can do. Acts 2:42-45 tells us exactly what the disciples dedicated themselves to, and how that led to their extraordinary outcomes. The answer is astoundingly simple: “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fello