Acts 1-5: Come Ye Thankful People Come

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. - Acts 2:42-47 NIV

It's Thanksgiving Day, 2011 and because I have gotten behind on my reading, I have jumped ahead to where I should have been by this time.  Looking for an appropriate passage to relate to Thanksgiving day, I am struck by the contrast between those early Christ followers and Christians today.

We really don't share today and we certainly don't hold anything in common.  There's a distinction between what is ours and what is the Lord's today that did not exist in the early days of the church.  Thankfully, we still have at least one day that we come together, family and friends, to break bread together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God. 

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