“And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.”
I was planning on writing something completely different today, but I have been absolutely delighted by the response to the need for masks that I expressed yesterday while hosting (just so you know, the need has been met for now). It reminds me of the church in Acts: “And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had” (2:44, NLT). Maybe the hardest part about our current circumstances is that we cannot “meet together” face-to-face. However, we can be “together” through technology, and we can “share everything we have” with each other (in appropriate ways). Practically speaking, this is what authentic life together looks like, as Bonhoeffer would say, and this is fundamentally what being the Body of Christ means. Thank you to all of you for providing such a brilliant example of generosity to me. – Shawn