The early church was a community satiated with love, generosity and compassion. As contemporary Christians we look back on those days with a certain wistfulness of spirit. We ask ourselves if the church cannot experience such grace, kindness and compassion for others today? Yet the early church was not perfect as the desire for first place and greed for money was not unknown. As such, Luke’s community of faith is both a model to emulate and a cautionary tale of negative outcomes.
