Naked Bible 39: Acts 2:42-47
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The Jerusalem Church and Its Shared Wealth
The church of Jerusalem is described in New Testament every time you get into these sorts of details as notoriously poor and its poverty was the reason that Paul took up collecting money on his missionary trips from the start up Gentile churches. According to the rest of the New Testament the shared wealth of the Jerusalem church did not elevate its economic condition. That omission would be really strange if what we're reading in Acts chapter 2 was binding revelation or a binding example. If that was true the omission here is strange since it's not passed down to all the other churches that we read about in the New Testament. Much less some sort of political state.
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