Acts 2:42-47 ||The Real Deal of the New Creation

His name is Fang Si.,an orphan of the Hmong mountain people of Vietnam who had been adopted by Vietnamese refugees and members of our congregation. His family had been slaughtered before his eyes, and he had escaped into the jungle. He had lived for a decade in an overcrowded orphanage. No family at all. No Mother’s Day. In fact, the idea of a loving mother a pipe dream. 

When he arrived, we were ready to offer him all those things. But he was resistant, fearful, angry. His attitude confused many of our church family, but his adoptive parents had been through this before with other children. They knew that after all he had seen and experienced, he could not really imagine what it was like to be loved genuinely by people he didn’t know. He would need proof. Proof of good intentions. Proof of sacrificial love. He needed to see people living in a way and with hearts completely different from those he had lived with. 

Our neighbors need such proof, too.

And so we are told how to live as a community of faith, a living display of the glory of the God who lives in us.