What did the early church do? In verse 42 it sums up that they learned doctrine, had fellowship, took communion (breaking of bread), and prayed. Nowhere in the rest of Scripture do we hear that these four things are not important. In fact, these four things are spoken of often. If ever a person claims to be a Christian stops participating in these four things then I believe there is a spiritual problem in their life. It is interesting that though two of these can be done on our own, prayer and doctrine, the early church did these activities as a group. Nowhere do we get the idea of solo Christianity in the New Testament. This is one of the reasons John Wesley believed in social holiness. We need each other if we are going to be all God wants us to be.
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