 | Lawrence O. Richards, Larry Richards - Religion - 1988 - 344 pages
...and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miracles were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything...glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying favor of all the people (Acts 2:42-47a). Another description of times when believers came together... | |
 | Gareth Weldon Icenogle - Religion - 1994 - 404 pages
...themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the [koinonia], to the breaking of bread and to prayer. . . . Every day they continued to meet together in the temple...ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising Cod and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were... | |
 | Dennis Gaertner - Bible - 1995 - 440 pages
...were done by the apostles. 44A11 the believers were together and had everything in common. '1"'Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as...homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those... | |
 | Allen Black - Religion - 1997 - 308 pages
...mother." For the multiple 21See 3:28. returns on houses and fields one might consult Acts 2:44-45: "All the believers were together and had everything...possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need." 31. This paradoxical saying22 is apparently a rebuke of the down side of Peter's statement. Peter has... | |
 | Siang-Yang Tan, Douglas H. Gregg - Holy Spirit - 1997 - 244 pages
...incorporated into shared fellowship: "All the believers were together and had everything in common Every day they continued to meet together in the temple...praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people" (Acts 2:44-47). There was such an explosion of love, freedom, joy, and power in the Spirit that people... | |
 | Peter Verkruyse - Religion - 1997 - 164 pages
...specifics of the text may be directly applied. In the book of Acts, we read that in the Jerusalem church, All the believers were together and had everything...possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need (Acts 2:44-45, NIV). Many might argue that such a practice is not incumbent upon the church today since... | |
 | Jon Mayled - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 138 pages
...(Matthew 25:35-36) The first Christians followed his teachings according to the Acts of the Apostles: All the believers were together and had everything...possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. (Acts 2:44-45) Today, as the world seems to become more and more secular, many people feel that making... | |
 | I. Howard Marshall, David Peterson - Bible - 1998 - 638 pages
...44-S.44 There we are told that 'All the believers were together and had everything in common (KOVVQ). Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need'. Yet this sharing mCf., Seccombe, Possessions, 213. Earlier in the same chapter Seccombe outlines the... | |
 | Mike Cope, Rubel Shelly - Christian life - 1998 - 216 pages
...to recapture the life and spirit of the firstcentury church, here are a couple of texts to consider: "Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need."22 And, "No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they... | |
 | Terry A. Bowland - Religion - 1999 - 324 pages
...worship. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything...praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people (Acts 2:43-47a). In the context of the apostles' ministry, the early believers exhibited a selflessness... | |
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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. 
