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Resurrection You Can See

And here’s the rub for those hoarding all the wealth and power. We learn in this text that preaching Christ’s resurrection in the early church came inextricably linked with a complete reordering of the community’s material and economic life together. “With great power”, the text says, “the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.” And then in the very next breath: “There was not a needy person among them.” The utter totality of the descriptive words in verses 32-35 makes the material reality of resurrection community plain: ALL of them were of one heart and soul, NO ONE claimed private ownership, EVERYTHING was held in common, AS MANY AS owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold, and it was distributed to each as ANY had need…

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