Progress Report. Acts 2.

The first progress report for the church looks like this:

Acts 2:46-47 (NET) -- Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts, praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

Imagine for a moment the intimacy of the just-birthed church. Sharing food around the table, sharing the teaching of the apostles, sharing the joy of the good news and of changed hearts, and sharing the power of God's spirit poured over them. Not so much like many of our gatherings today.

As an organization, Life Groups are one of the formal ways BCC encourages a return to the spirit and style of the church when it began. But there are plenty of other occasions when we get together in small groups, perhaps around a meal or a table, or riding in a car, or shoveling barkdust; a time when true fellowship with glad and humble hearts takes place. Cherish those occasions.