Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, well this is the second part of a short two-part series.

It represents some teachings that I did a number of years ago about the meaning of church

as it's described in the New Testament.

The earliest church communities were groups of Jesus followers gathering in Jerusalem

around a core set of habits and practices that are described in Acts chapter 2.

And so in this teaching I explore the discipline and the habit of sharing resources and time

and our lives with each other that opening up the boundary lines that we place around ourselves,

our time, our resources, and letting other people's in and letting our time and resources out into the lives

with other people around us from the very beginning.

This characterizes a core habit of followers of Jesus.

So why is that? Why is learning how to share something that we can't stop learning like in kindergarten?

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