Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-chapter verse by-verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

communism in the church, as we pick up in Acts chapter 5 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Chapter 5, the Book of Acts. Now, in the end of the fourth chapter, we have the second

mention of the early pure communism that was practiced in the first church,

where those who had possessions sold them and they shared.

As we made note last Sunday night,

financially it was disastrous. Spiritcially, it was disastrous.

Spiritually, it was a very beautiful gesture

that the wealthier Christians

had such a great love for the Lord

and for the body of Christ that they were willing to sell

their possessions and put everything in a common kind of a purse so that no one was with need

in the early church. No one had to go without.

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