Community

The community of believers is what makes the church. Not a building or location. I was recently reading on the vintage faith church website and they really drive home what community is “As followers of Jesus, we define our community by our relationship to Jesus and our attempts to live out his teachings. Therefore, we are not just a community, but specifically a Christian community on a mission” (Vintage Faith Church, www.vintagechurch.com ).
I really think that community is a body of believers that come together to experience, learn, grow, and share life together with Christ as your foundation and Focus. In Acts 2 really gives a great example of what community is.

Acts 2:42-47
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

I couldn’t help realize in verse 47 that the Lord added to there number daily those who were being saved. The Lord blessed there community because they devoted themselves to there community. They helped people around them who were in need which included the non-believers. It also says that they met everyday in the temple courts. So other people saw them and heard them talking about Jesus. If they see these believers coming together with glad and sincere hearts who helped one another out and fellowshipped with one another, I could see how the Lord blessed their numbers. They showed what being a Christian was like. Why is it that we have strayed from the idea of community? Maybe we haven’t, or we have limited community to only certain places we can meet together. I am really excited about what the emerging church has done with community. They are bringing it back to what it originally was.