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Many churches nowadays can be more accurately described as a collection of individuals rather the united body of Christ. Individualism has become the paradigm of today’s culture, and unfortunately, this mindset has also permeated the church. However, as Christians, we are “members of one body” (Eph 4:25), who are called to “reach unity in the faith” (Eph 5:13). How can we be united as one church despite the culture of individualism? In order to answer this question, Randy Frazee turns to the early church. Frazee noted that one characteristic of the early church was that Christians were not only involved in local groups, but were also part of a larger, worldwide Christian movement. Acts 2: 42-44 reads, “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common.” In other words, they had a common purpose. Similarly, in order for the church today to be “one body”, the members of the Christian community “must act like members of something that is larger than themselves.”
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