42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Acts 2:42
I’ve always considered this passage (and the verses that follow) as the description of a well-oiled, fully functioning church. Every necessary element is here. Persistent attentiveness to one another’s needs and to the didactic teaching of the word of God, to the taking of meals together symbolized richly by the breaking of bread and passing it to one another, and to the prayers of anyone who would offer one up to God at any time.
So often we have no clue as to what our brothers and sisters are going through, our sermons are not detailed and definitive discourses on the word of God, but homilies, spun stories, or comic routines, rarely is there ever a meal taken with another in one’s private homes, and prayer is mentioned in the abstract, not as an actionable immediate means of connecting or communicating with an omnipresent God.
Somehow we need to do these things it we want to do church. Think of all we’re missing if we don’t. Also, don’t lose sight of the fact that this particular church was already of “megachurch” proportions and growing “day by day.” Acts 2:47
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