About the Common
welcome!
Welcome to the common – a way for all who call SCPC home to love and serve one another. This is an idea that was largely inspired by Acts 2:44-45 which comes in the middle of a passage that describes the very early church of King Jesus in the following way:
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. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
I often wonder about how we can get closer to this God-glorifying model of church and I hope that “the common” might help us to take another step in that direction.
The idea is really very simple, it’s called SHARING! It’s something we expect our kids to do but somehow seem to think that when we grow up we have the right to stop! Why is that?! Whatever the answer, it’s an attitude that’s just not good enough for people who know God’s generosity in Christ. God’s people should be GENEROUS people – generous towards God and generous towards each other. 1 Timothy 6:18 reminds of this: “be rich in good deeds, … be generous and willing to share”.
But often the problem is not that we don’t WANT to be generous and willing to share but that we don’t know HOW. The common aims to address that problem head on. Read on to learn how…
